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AEW Free Agency Thread - DO NOT MAKE MORE THREADS

44K views 858 replies 73 participants last post by  BarryHorowitz  
#1 ·
There's been a lot of free agent movement over the past few years and I feel like it'll be easier to have one thread instead of a bunch of little ones.

This includes anything regarding available free agents, upcoming AEW contracts that are ending and recent AEW acquisitions.

Fightful keeps a updated list of free agents. Here it is for reference. Pro Wrestling Free Agents | Fightful News
 
#467 ·
AJ & Kevin's contracts coming up around the same time is interesting to me. Both are guys who have been in WWE for about a decade. They've had great careers all told. But you could also see them leaving to do something different with people they know in AEW if the money is right.

For AJ, he's 47. So if he signs another deal, it very well could be his last one. So does WWE want to invest in someone who's that up there. In my opinion, absolutely, but who knows. Also, does AJ want to be tied down to another full time contract. I think he will as the money will be there and he can still go.

And with Kevin, he chose to stay in WWE in 2021 when perception wise WWE certainly was not at its hottest compared to AEW. In 2024 that has completely flipped. I won't be surprised if this time he decides to go the other way.
 
#477 ·
Vikingo is the case of someone who's very talented, super talented, but is going to have a ceiling, even in AEW.

In AEW, he might break out, or he might just end up as a guy in the Conglomeration or with Alex Abrahantes and having random 6-mans all the time. Which, to be fair, isn't a bad gig if you can get it. And in WWE, I mean they've got no Cruiserweight Division and the average height is even bigger over there. Unless he could make it work in a tag team, I don't see what he does there. NXT could get something out of him but I don't know what role he'd play on the main roster.