Dave Meltzer recently made some interesting comments about the future of WWE developmental deals on Wrestling Observer Radio (subscribe here).
The belief is that WWE will be offering a lot more money to lock down talent to deals. This comes with some increased competition from All Elite Wrestling and other promotions.
Here is a quote from Meltzer, who cites an unnamed wrestler who was recently offered some big money from WWE (quote below via Wrestling INC):
“I think there are going to be some interesting ones. Nothing that hasn’t been rumored, and imminently. But there’s also an instance of someone who is under contract to a company, they’re going to be out of contract with the company in a couple of months. WWE, and another company, and maybe even two other companies, were involved in being interested [negotiations] in this person. And this would be a developmental deal [for WWE NXT] but I will say that the developmental money compared to others that WWE has offered was way, way higher. Multiples. Because the business has changed so much, and because of everything that’s going on,”
Looks like it is a great time to be a free agent in pro-wrestling. Should be interesting to see what happens over the next few months.
On a related note, here are some rumors on some former WWE stars being potentially involved with All Elite Wrestling.