With the recent announcement of All Elite Wrestling, as well as New Japan Pro Wrestling’s intention to continue expanding in the West, and Ring Of Honor aggressively signing new talent, WWE appear to be paying close attention to the deluge of options talent now have available to them.
According to Dave Meltzer, WWE has recently offered a development deal that is significantly larger than their regular contracts.
Regarding the next group of NXT signees, Meltzer commented that he believes “there are going to be some interesting ones” chosen.
“Nothing that hasn’t been rumored, and imminently,” he said. “But there’s also an instance of someone who is under contract to a company — they’re going to be out of contract with the company in a couple of months.
WWE and another company, and maybe even two other companies, were involved in being interested in [negotiating with] this person. And this would be a developmental deal, but I will say that the developmental money compared to others that WWE has offered was way, way higher. Multiples. Because the business has changed so much, and because of everything that’s going on.”
AEW has recently signed Britt Baker. Bandido ended up with Ring Of Honor. Even members of The Elite supposedly turned down major money deals from WWE. So, are we on the cusp of a major signing war between promotions?
Please Note: At the time of writing, the wrestler whom Meltzer is referring to is unknown.
What do you think? Are we about to witness the next great wrestling war or are WWE to great a behemoth?
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