A week before its release, around 20% of WWE 2K22’s roster no longer work for WWE
35 playable superstars have left the company
WWE 2K22‘s roster has been officially revealed, and it includes 34 superstars that no longer work for the company, making up around 20% of the playable characters.
Departed talent has been a long-standing issue for WWE games due to their lengthy production cycle, and how frequently and randomly WWE releases its talent.
However, this past year has seen the WWE release over 100 superstars from across its multiple brands, making the number of cut wrestlers still present in the new game somewhat less unsurprising.
However, while some superstars on the list have only just left the company, such as Cesaro, others such as Billie Kay and Peyton Royce were released from their WWE contracts as far back as April of 2021.
It was also recently revealed that musician Machine Gun Kelly will be playable in WWE 2K22, as part of a post-launch DLC pack.
The full roster for WWE 2K22 is (superstars who have left WWE marked with strikeout):
- AJ Styles: 91
- Akira Tozawa: 75
- Alexa Bliss: 84
- Alexander Wolfe: 77
- André the Giant: 88
- Angel Garza: 79
- Angelo Dawkins: 80
- Apollo Crews: 81
- Ariya Daivari: 70
- Asuka: 90
- Austin Theory: 80
- Batista: 88
- Bayley: 88
- Becky Lynch: 92
- Beth Phoenix: 87
- Bianca Belair: 87
- Big Boss Man: 81
- Big E: 87
- Billie Kay: 77
- Bobby Lashley: 91
- Booker T: 88
- Braun Strowman: 90
- Bret “The Hitman” Hart: 91
- Brock Lesnar: 94
- Cameron Grimes: 79
- Candice LeRae: 77
- Carmella: 79
- Cedric Alexander: 76
- Cesaro: 84
- Chad Gable: 76
- Charlotte Flair: 90
- Chyna: 87
- Dakota Kai: 79
- Damian Priest: 84
- Dana Brooke: 74
- Danny Burch: 77
- Demon Finn Bálor: 90
- Dexter Lumis: 79
- Diesel: 87
- Dolph Ziggler: 82
- Dominik Mysterio: 79
- Drew Gulak: 79
- Drew McIntyre: 91
- Eddie Guerrero: 90
- Edge: 91
- Elias: 75
- Ember Moon: 81
- Eric Bischoff (nWo 4-Life Edition): 69
- Erik: 80
- Faarooq: 88
- Fabian Aichner: 80
- Fandango: 77
- Finn Bálor: 87
- Goldberg: 88
- Gran Metalik: 79
- Happy Corbin: 81
- Hollywood Hogan (nWo 4-Life Edition): 92
- Hulk Hogan: 91
- Humberto Carrillo: 77
- Io Shirai: 82
- Isaiah “Swerve” Scott: 80
- Ivar: 81
- Jake “The Snake” Roberts: 85
- JBL: 88
- Jeff Hardy: 85
- Jerry “The King” Lawler: 86
- Jey Uso: 85
- Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart: 86
- Jimmy Uso: 85
- Jinder Mahal: 77
- Joaquin Wilde: 79
- John Cena: 92
- John Morrison: 80
- Johnny Gargano: 82
- Jordan Devlin: 79
- Kalisto: 74
- Kane: 82
- Karrion Kross: 84
- Kay Lee Ray: 81
- Keith Lee: 80
- Kevin Nash (nWo 4-Life Edition): 90
- Kevin Owens: 85
- Kofi Kingston: 88
- Kushida: 79
- Kyle O’Reilly: 81
- Lacey Evans: 81
- Lana: 71
- Lince Dorado: 75
- Liv Morgan: 77
- MACE: 76
- ‘Macho MAan’ Randy Savage: 88
- Mandy Rose: 80
- Mansoor: 80
- Marcel Barthel: 79
- Maryse: 79
- Mia Yim: 79
- Mickie James: 81
- “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase: 85
- Montez Ford: 82
- McMahon: 76
- Murphy: 77
- Mustafa Ali: 77
- MVP: 80
- Naomi: 79
- Natalya: 84
- Nia Jax: 82
- Nikki A.S.H.: 82
- Oney Lorcan: 76
- Otis: 77
- Papa Shango: 79
- Pete Dunne: 81
- Peyton Royce: 79
- R-Truth: 77
- Randy Orton: 88
- Raquel González: 81
- Raul Mendoza: 79
- Razor Ramon: 84
- RECKONING: 76
- Rey Mysterio: 90
- Rhea Ripley: 86
- Ric Flair: 88
- Ricochet: 82
- Riddle: 85
- Road Dogg Jesse James: 85
- Robert Roode: 81
- Roderick Strong: 80
- Roman Reigns: 95
- Rowdy Roddy Piper: 85
- Sami Zayn: 80
- Samoa Joe: 86
- Santos Escobar: 81
- Sasha Banks: 88
- Scarlett (manager)
- Scott Hall (nWo 4-Life Edition): 90
- Seth Rollins: 91
- Shane McMahon: 79
- Shawn Michaels: 88
- Shayna Baszler: 84
- Sheamus: 85
- Shelton Benjamin: 81
- Shinsuke Nakamura: 88
- Shotzi: 77
- SLAPJACK: 71
- ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin: 92
- Sonya Deville: 77
- Stephanie McMahon: 77
- Syxx (nWo 4-Life Edition): 88
- T-BAR: 76
- Tamina: 75
- Tegan Nox: 79
- The Brian Kendrick: 74
- The Miz: 86
- The Rock: 93
- Timothy Thatcher: 80
- Titus O’Neil: 76
- Tommaso Ciampa: 84
- Toni Storm: 80
- Trent Seven: 77
- Triple H: 91
- Trish Stratus: 89
- Tucker: 71
- Tyler Bate: 82
- Tyler Breeze: 77
- Ultimate Warrior: 88
- Undertaker: 90
- Ministry of Darkness (Undertaker Immortal Pack): 93
- Phantom Mask (Undertaker Immortal Pack): 88
- Boneyard Match (Undertaker Immortal Pack): 91
- WALTER: 86
- William Regal: 85
- X-Pac: 85
- Xavier Woods: 86
When it releases on March 11, WWE 2K22 will be the first WWE 2K title since the series skipped an annual release due to the disastrous launch of WWE 2K20.
WWE 2K20 was a disappointing full debut for developer Visual Concepts, resulting in one of the lowest Metacritic scores in 2K’s history, mostly due to a huge number of technical issues at release.
In 2020, in a bid to enact a “renewed focus” on quality, publisher 2K hired former Double Helix studio head Patrick Gilmore to take over WWE 2K.
In VGC’s recent WWE 2K22 hands-on, we said: “While we’ll need to spend longer with its in-ring mechanics to see how they hold up to repeat play sessions, the core changes that have been made here are enormously positive ones, and will hopefully result in one of the better WWE games we’ve seen in a while.”
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