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NEWS - WWE Reportedly Looking To Sign Younger, Bigger Talent! Backstage News On WWE Firings! Released WWE Star Has Non-Compete Clause Shortened! WWE Scrapped Big Plans For These Released NXT Wrestlers?!

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


WWE Reportedly Looking To Sign Younger, Bigger Talent!

Backstage News On WWE Firings!

Released WWE Star Has Non-Compete Clause Shortened!

WWE Scrapped Big Plans For These Released NXT Wrestlers?!


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0:00.0

Hello there, my very good friends. A major shift is coming to WWE's talent sign in policy.

0:14.3

Adam Cole's live reaction to the WWE releases and will Tyler Breeze ever wrestle again?

0:20.8

One release to WWE wrestler has reportedly had their non-compete clause shortened.

0:25.8

And two of the wrestlers released last week were apparently planned to be a part of a major storyline.

0:31.6

I'm Adam Wilborn.

0:32.9

And I'm Andy Murray.

0:34.3

And this is the news.

0:36.6

Alright, so we're going to kick things off by talking about this new report on WWE's

0:40.8

signing policy. There has been a shift. Little guys are out. Big beefy boys are in.

0:48.0

This is at least the word of Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio talking about the whole

0:52.6

signing policy with WWE saying specifically that WWE are moving away from smaller,

0:59.2

older wrestlers and moving towards people who are at least 220 pounds and under 26 years of age.

1:07.6

Now, as is often the case with like broad policies, you would think that if someone who's

1:13.4

30 years old and 205 pounds comes along and they're the best, they'd probably break the

1:18.4

policy inside them. But for years and years and years that WWE policy has been, these people

1:23.9

who are in more advanced stages of their career, this whole period we've had over the past five

1:28.4

years of sort of signing seasoned indie wrestlers who've lots of experience and everything else.

1:34.7

Now they're kind of going back to a model more in line before you traditionally associate

1:39.6

with WWE. So I mean, we've seen some big beefy boys come into WWE recently, right? We've got

1:44.4

Parker Boudreau, part of the latest signing class, Bronson Rex Steiner, I believe is a large man

1:50.5

as well. So it's going to be interesting to see what comes to this. What do you think of this

1:55.5

change in signing policy? I'm not exactly surprised by this and certainly judging by what we saw

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