Andrade’s WWE contract reportedly had a ONE YEAR non-compete clause, allegedly the new standard for TKO Group since merging WWE and UFC together. (WO) You may have heard that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled non-competes were unenforceable, but the state of Texas has appealed that decision, so it’s still the wild West out there in the interim. If WWE can actually make it stick we won’t be seeing Andrade on AEW television again for a really long time. Notably during the WrestleDream conference call Tony Khan ducked the question about it multiple times.
He’s been out of action since March of this year due to a variety of injuries, but now Jay White seems to be teasing his return on social media. And that’s all it is — a tease — one word. “Ready?” It could mean anything or nothing at all.
In this interview Kris Statlander stated her goal was to take Death Riders down from inside: “I’ve been down the path of letting someone else tell me what to do and letting someone else kind of try and guide me, and it ended up not working out with me, and I don’t want to go through that again. They have been terrorizing everyone in AEW for quite some time now, and I try to find a way to see if maybe I can kind of play their game a little bit and maybe I can get a little more information on how to take them down.”
To make a long story short R-Truth says he’s abandoned his more serious wrestling persona.
Even though The Smashing Machine was a box office flop, The Rock is teaming with Benny Safdie again for a new movie called Lizard Music.
Myron Reed and Killer Kelly are now engaged. Congratulations to them both!
Bryce Donovan is the latest EVOLVE and/or WWE ID talent to announce they’ve left the company.
Samoa Joe on how he hopes to be remembered when he retires: “I just hope they had fun. I mean, that’s really the gist of it. I’m not trying to shape a narrative of who they think I should be or who I think I am. I just hope that when they watched, whether they loved or hated me, they had a good time in the process. And that really is the only thing that matters.”
According to Bodyslam, Jacob Fatu has a non-wrestling related injury that could keep him out of the ring “until well in 2026.” There’s no other confirmation nor any word on what the injury even is so take all of that with a grain of salt.
