Originally Posted by WWE.com

WWE today announced it has signed Jade Cargill to a multi-year contract. The news was first reported by ESPN.

Cargill, a standout performer who has earned accolades as an industry-renowned talent, will begin training today at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando.

Originally Posted by ESPN

Jade Cargill, a rising star in professional wrestling and former champion in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), has signed with WWE, promotion officials told ESPN.

Cargill, who was AEW's longest-reigning TBS champion and appeared on AEW television as recently as two weeks ago, will start with WWE on Tuesday at its Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, officials said.

It remains unclear if Cargill will go straight to the WWE main roster or if she will first perform for its developmental brand, NXT.

Cargill, 31, has been wrestling professionally for only two years. Her in-ring debut came in AEW as part of a high-profile mixed tag team match in March 2021. She teamed with NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal against Cody Rhodes and Red Velvet. Rhodes, one of Cargill's mentors at his Nightmare Factory in Georgia, signed with WWE last year (after helping found AEW in 2019) and headlined WrestleMania 39.

Cargill was the first AEW TBS champion and held the title from Jan. 5, 2022, to May 28, 2023, a span of 508 days.

The Florida native is considered a major future star in pro wrestling and beyond. The 5-foot-10 Cargill was a fitness model before wrestling and has nearly 1 million Instagram followers. She played Division I basketball at Jacksonville University. Her partner is former Cincinnati Reds player Brandon Phillips. Cargill and Phillips are owners of a Women's Professional Fastpitch (WPF) team, the Texas Smoke.

Originally Posted by Splaya (Post 5631248)

The worst kept secret is now fact. I bet Tiny is telling everyone "It doesn't matter. She won't do anything over there"

Originally Posted by Evil Vito (Post 5631285)

Good move for her. Obviously much higher visibility in WWE and this will raise her profile for even a post-wrestling career. With her physique and presence she could easily end up in movies if she's got acting chops.

Good for her in-ring career too. Aside from visibility, she always had a ceiling in AEW because Tony Khan really doesn't seem to care about the women's division. 4 years in, they've never gotten away from "we can only have 1 women's match on a card" booking. And outside of PPVs and her final match with Kris, she was only ever in squash matches and you can only develop so much doing the same match over and over again.

Originally Posted by GD (Post 5631310)

Posting this for Cowboy Lock Jaw

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Originally Posted by Splaya (Post 5631475)

This 100% hurts AEW especially if WWE does something of note with Jade.

Cody goes back to WWE and is super over

Jade leaves AEW and becomes super over.

While other people will lack the star power of those two, if you can leave and go be successful in WWE, why stay with AEW to hang out with Tiny and his elite troll dolls.

Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect (Post 5631490)

Brian Pillman, Jr is another one. Ricky Starks and Wardlow could be two more. AEW is modern day TNA in more ways than one.

Originally Posted by XL (Post 5631536)

I will say from the short promo VT on NXT, Pillman Jr. has never looked better.

Originally Posted by Vastardikai (Post 5631542)

WWE did more with his story in that 10 second vignette than AEW did at all.

Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect (Post 5631577)

New Japan guys look like shit when they come over for that reason too.

Originally Posted by xrodmuc316 (Post 5631691)

They announced her signing on Smackdown and made a pretty big deal out of it. I chuckled when Graves dropped the "SHE IS A GAME CHANGER" line.

Originally Posted by GD (Post 5631717)

Why would you suggest that? Jade Cargill is the best thing to have happened to the women's roster in WWE since Rousey. They should feel lucky that she agreed to sign with them despite the cringe inducing "This is your family now" line. She's one of the greatest pro-wrestlers of this generation and deserves all the fanfare.

Originally Posted by Damian Rey 2.0 (Post 5631534)

He’s been over in WWE but he also isn’t in better a spot on the card there than he was in AEW. Heavily featured, presented as the ultimate babyface, but still not the man even tho he probably should’ve beaten Roman.