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NEWS - Bad News For Ex-WWE Stars In AEW...

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WhatCulture Wrestling

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4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


Bad News For Ex-WWE Stars In AEW!

Chad Gable Injured!

Latest On WWE Heading To Saudi Arabia!

EXCUSE ME?!


ENJOY!


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0:00.0

Coming up on today is wrestling news, there is a major change in AWU's talent signing policy.

0:05.0

I'll bring you the latest on WWE heading to Saudi Arabia.

0:08.3

We've got some surprising news on a former WB star set to return.

0:11.6

And Chad Gable is injured. I'm Adam Wilborn.

0:15.0

I'm Michael Hamfletz.

0:15.9

And this is the news.

0:17.7

And we're going to start Wilborn with a sort of slightly contentious point over the last

0:22.4

few years in AWE that is now being sort of folded into what's actually happening behind

0:25.8

the scenes and that is the particular talent that they sign to fill up that big beefy roster,

0:32.4

but specifically some of the XWB names that come across.

0:35.4

This has been a relatively consistent theme since

0:38.0

AWOLG launched in 2019, certainly for a long period of time. It looked like a dream of a place

0:42.3

to work as opposed to the nightmare era of WW. Do you remember the pop that Jack Swagger got

0:46.6

on the first night of Dynamite? That was how it works. Bunkers, weren't it? The era of wrestlers

0:50.9

like escaping from prison and the like and all that sort of stuff in AW. And then naturally things change in ebb and flow and all that kind of stuff.

0:57.0

Tony fumble.

0:58.0

Yeah, all that sort of thing.

0:59.0

Yeah, all that sort of stuff.

1:00.0

And now it appears as if AWU we've kind of acknowledged that and are looking to tighten the reins a little bit.

1:04.0

This is some great reporting from Fight for Selects. For the last year or so, I know AW was being way more picky with who they brought in, especially

1:12.7

since we've seen WWD departures come in, not be content with the AW process, leave and return.

1:18.4

There's going to be some of those talent that do come in, but it's not going to be a huge amount.

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