Thread: Impact Knockouts World Champion Mickie James to compete in the 2022 women's Royal Rumble match
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Old 01-11-2022, 08:44 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect View Post
Way less than that right now. But if they become the primary broadcasting partners of New Japan in the US, and if they have some sort of working relationship with the WWE, it gives them a lot of leverage to sign guys that already have a lot of money, don’t care so much about exposure, or still want to be available to the WWE (or the WWE wants to be available to them).

Does a wrestler care if they’re getting $1 million per year from Tony Khan or $1 million a year from multiple promotions? It also means the WWE can fire a guy like…Finn Balor. What would he do? Get signed by AEW and work New Japan when he has a chance. Buuut, if AEW is locked out of New Japan, maybe he takes a deal with Impact Wrestling instead? He can work New Japan and even go with the WWE on tours to Europe or be called in for a SummerSlam match with AJ Styles when they’re feeling dry. He eats up way less on the WWE’s expenses, but maybe still even comes out ahead. All the while being a true independent contractor.

And if he ends up meaning something, there’s nothing stopping the WWE from signing him back on to a big deal and then either sourcing him out.

TK would only have money and his approved partners to work with. It makes things harder to finesse and possibly even causes some talent (relatively big stars for him too) to leave, and eventually some people in power somewhere might hope his dad gets annoyed because his son is paying $1 million for certain talent but their deals with other places are only for a couple of hundred thousand.

It doesn’t really make sense for the WWE NOT to work with smaller promotions, especially if they don’t want to hot-shot their own product to generate goodwill with the vocal online fan-base. The big factor would be what they can control creatively and how that potentially impacts them by association. But they don’t even need to technically be in bed with these people.
They’d have to get all that in place pretty quick to get Moose a decent reaction at the Rumble in 3 weeks time
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