No it’s because WWE sack them as they are surplus to requirements and AEW snap them up because they love folk who WWE don’t want

 

Free money from Tony + the chance to get a "WWE bad" promo.

 

Less toxic environment? My god no, lol.

When a wrestler leaves WWE, why would they not go to AEW? The owner is a mark billionaire who will pay these guys 5x as much money as they're worth, more than anybody would ever pay these guys in their life, and it's the only other wrestling company on national television.

 

There is more freedom in AEW vs the very rigded and structured corporate environment of the WWE.

 

Where else will they go to?

 

Because there’s a money mark with seemingly unlimited amounts of money and has no shareholders to answer to, and with TKO being a public company they will not overpay someone like Edge as an example, who is over the hill at this point, already a WWE hall of famer, so Edge is being a smart businessman and taking the mark’s bag of money

Jade Cargill is an example of an up and coming talent with huge ambition which the money mark even admitted he offered her well above her asking price but Jade would rather be in the big leagues, as in the long run she will end up being much more famous and have bigger name value than if she stayed in a bush league promotion

I’m curious to see what will happen with MJF because you know the clown money mark will pay him way more than WWE will offer without a doubt

 

I don't think MJF jumps ship. He's got it comfy right now, hardly wrestles, big money, de facto face of the company, promo freedom.

Reading off a script, with less money and little fish big pond mentality will turn him off WWE.

 

This has been the case since AEW started.

 

I can understand releasing some wrestlers but not guys like Dolph Ziggler, Elias and Shelton Benjamin.

 

If you were released by your employer would you stop working?

 

Why?

Initially at least I think for the same reasons fans tuned in.

It was something new and exciting with ambition and a ton of money backing it.

In both cases the new toy syndrome has started to wear off. The majority of WWE wrestlers going there are because WWE is happy to let them go or already has.

It is leveling out and now we are seeing the pendulum swing the other way. It should get to a healthy point of back and forth but AEW has a long way to go before it's poaching top WWE stars in their prime. That still works for AEW though for where it's at.

WWE will always have new stars in the making because that's the machine they run. Some top stars will inevitably get bored or surplus to requirements and end up with AEW. Financially it's the number one option.

 

…Because it’s a job….

 

Because they have a lighter schedule with more creative freedom. Nobody should be up any corporation’s ass to such a degree that somebody switching jobs mystifies them.

 

Define "so many" lmao. Did Jade not just go the other way? Pillman Jr? What you think Wardlow is just gonna spend the prime of his career in catering?

 

They're a new promotion. They have to 'steal' wrestlers that have value from the big pond. I'm glad I'm seeing the likes of Miro and Danielson over Jimmy Havoc and Sonny Kiss.

 

Perhaps for the same reason wrestling talent signed with WCW or NWATNAGFWIMPACT

 

Idk maybe has something to do with the product being built around 1 man and 1 storyline for the past 4 years or something.

 

The same reason wwe wrestlers jumped ship to wcw, it's a place to go,a way to stay in the wrestling industry,it's another job.

 

Because despite what all the kool aid drinker's think, wrestling does exist outside of WWE. Maybe they want to wrestle in Japan instead of doing cringe worthy stuff with Miz or Rollins.