{"id":47269,"date":"2026-04-25T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47269"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:18:39","slug":"singaporean-wrestler-dante-chen-released-by-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47269","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean wrestler Dante Chen released by WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Singaporean wrestler Dante Chen has been released by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), ending a five-year run with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old, whose real name is Sean Tan, announced his contract release on X.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Goodbye and thank you, WWE. Five years, 147 matches. The list of names of people I want to thank is endless,&#8221; he said on Saturday (Apr 25).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I am proud to be the first Singaporean-born WWE superstar, and I hope that inspires everyone that anything can be achieved. Stay tuned. Chen. Now. Forever. Together.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fellow wrestlers, including rising star Oba Femi, paid tribute to Chen on Instagram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Femi, who defeated Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania last weekend, said: &#8220;Respect from me always Dante!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chen first <\/span><span>made his debut<\/span><span> on WWE&#8217;s NXT programme in September 2021, pinning his opponent in under a minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He was the first Singaporean to perform in WWE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During his time with the company, Chen mainly appeared on NXT and was not called up to the main roster full-time, where top stars compete on Raw and SmackDown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Previously performing as Trexxus in Singapore, Tan began wrestling in February 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chen joins a number of wrestlers who have been released by WWE this year, including Erick Rowan and Bo Dallas.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/dante-chen-wwe-release-sean-tan-wrestling-6080301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Singaporean wrestler Dante Chen has been released by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), ending a five-year run with the company. The 30-year-old, whose real name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--RjPIOBW5--\/c_crop,h_662,w_1177,x_2,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2021-09\/dantechen2.png?itok=umLUYzhY","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8566,21314,4515,1293,21313,8643],"class_list":["post-47269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-chen","tag-dante","tag-released","tag-singaporean","tag-wrestler","tag-wwe","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}