Report: 'A Lot' Of AEW Contracts To Be Allowed To Quietly Expire
While All Elite Wrestling reportedly won't be carrying out releases, similar to WWE, the Tony Khan-led promotion will allow "a lot" of contracts to quietly expire at some point in the next 18 months, it has been revealed.
Bryan Alvarez reported on Wrestling Observer Live that a number of wrestlers in AEW want to leave the promotion but Tony Khan is simply paying them to sit at home.
"The fact of the matter is there's a lot of people that ain't doing nothing right now. In WWE, they have no issue cutting people, as we're well aware. Tony Khan doesn't like to play the bad guy, and so he doesn't like to cut people, so he just pays them to do nothing for months and months and months on end. There's all the tribal stuff, you know, if you hate WWE then they're evil for letting people go and Tony is great for honouring contracts. But at the same time, it’s like there’s definitely a lot of people in AEW that would like out and he won’t let them out. So they just sit at home wanting to wrestle. They get paid and they’re never used," Alvarez said.
"There’s pluses and minuses to both of these. But the fact is I have been given the impression that there's a lot of AEW contracts, he's not going to cut people, but they're just going to quietly expire. Probably like a lot of people. There's going to come a time, maybe six months, a year, 18 months down the road, where there's going to be a lot of people available."
It is unknown which talents will see their contracts quietly expire, but All Elite Wrestling do have a large roster, with one of the criticisms aimed at the promotion being having so many wrestlers under contract who are simply not used on a regular basis.
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I'd rather sit a home getting paid then suddenly loose my job, but sitting at home is pretty much my favorite thing to do. At least AEW still lets people book indie dates, as far as I know.
I think for wrestling industry, sitting home means your name is getting cold.
TK probably doesn’t want WWE to pick people up.
I, however, agree with you. If you paid me to sit at home and do nothing, I’m chillin.
This is kind of the way contracts should work. At least you have a date that you can work with and prepare for.
I get it. I'd be frustrated as hell if I was keeping myself in ring shape and not getting used.
Sure, I'd personally love to be paid to sit at home. But wrestlers aren't training themselves to sit at home. That's not what you get into wrestling for.
Sure, but AEW guys always have the option to pick up indie dates to keep themselves sharp, as long as they don't conflict with AEW dates (which, if you're worried about being paid to sit at home, you have no AEW dates to conflict with anyway). It's not like WWE, where you work WWE or nothing, so if they don't use you, you have no other options.
What I'm saying is, if these guys are just sitting home waiting for the phone to ring, that's on them.
100% agree. But indies aren't on TV twice a week, either.
I'd probably have a chip on my shoulder if I grinded my way up to get signed by AEW just to work indie shows.
Yeah, it's definitely not an ideal situation. And I do think AEW should be more open to releasing talent they're not using if the talent wants to be released. But if the problem is that they're sitting at home and not keeping sharp... well, that's a choice.