WWE Summer Cleaning 2021

[Noid]

This is a result of all the talent hoarding that went on a few years ago. I have no doubt that the released wrestlers fill find work and use it as an opportunity to rebuild themselves. Even those who weren't fortunate enough to get the WWE rub via active participation.

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by Noid This is a result of all the talent hoarding that went on a few years ago since about 2004 onward. I have no doubt that the released wrestlers fill find work and use it as an opportunity to rebuild themselves. Even those who weren't fortunate enough to get the WWE rub via active participation.

Went and fixed that for you. Granted, you were specifically talking about trying to keep people under contract to prevent them filtering to AEW, but WWE had been signing people to developmental contracts willy nilly for nearly two decades now if they had any kind of buzz around them whatsoever. The numbers have increased over time, and that's just since they started the developmental system. Remember: near the tail end of WCW, (before the buyout and failed invasion angle) when they started circling the drain, WWE was signing guys from there because seemingly because they could to rub it in. There was no fucking way they were going to seriously push Haku- but they deprived the other guys of Meng, and that was good enough to take a victory lap with.