Shawn Spears Ejected From The Culling After Costing Izzi Dame WWE Women’s Speed Tournament Final

Shawn Spears is no longer a member of The Culling following the events of the June 23 edition of WWE NXT.

During Izzi Dame’s match in the WWE Women’s Speed tournament final, Spears and fellow faction member Niko Vance were ringside to support Dame. However, Spears went overboard with his coaching from the apron, distracting Dame at a critical moment and ultimately contributing to her losing the match and coming up short in the tournament.

The fallout was swift. Both Dame and Vance made clear they had no interest in keeping Spears around after the costly interference, and he was shown the door.

It’s a significant development for The Culling, a faction that had positioned itself as a calculating, precision-focused unit. Spears — a veteran who has bounced between WWE and AEW over the years and long marketed himself as a measured, cerebral presence — becoming the source of dysfunction is an ironic turn. His over-eagerness wound up being exactly the kind of chaos the group seemingly exists to avoid.

For Dame, the loss stings on two levels: she came up short in the Speed tournament and now finds her faction fractured in the aftermath. Where The Culling goes from here without Spears, and whether Spears surfaces elsewhere on the NXT roster, remains to be seen.