Mariah May Officially With WWE, Details Behind It

Mariah May is in WWE

May has signed a multi-year contract with WWE, as one would expect after she debuted on NXT. WWE has been moving talent around in anticipation of the move, with a number of NXT talent moving up to the main roster. The specifics of the debut were kept very quiet as to not leak. At least on WWE's behalf, sources claimed that a very tight circle knew "officially" that May was on board ahead of time, but the plan for a while has been for her on NXT. We're told that word was relayed in gorilla to the talent just before the segment started.

Most in AEW expected her to head to WWE for the last number of months. She'd been making moves preparing for life after AEW over the last number of months, with most everyone thinking the landing point was WWE. The talent we spoke to said they expected her on NXT when she signed because of all of the recent Smackdown and Raw call-ups. (EDIT: a Patreon error had cut that off previously)

We've heard that AEW was interested in retaining her, but have not yet heard what the offers looked like. Those we spoke to in AEW didn't seem to think that she departed on bad terms.

May was removed from the AEW's roster page May 31, and her management said that she was technically still under contract. We've since learned that deal came up at the start of June with a couple of others, but made the rare move on their behalf of getting ahead of the departure. It's worth noting that Abadon is still on AEW's roster page despite their deal being up.

WWE NXT didn't mention her name. We've not heard if they're changing it, but there would be no issues with her using Mariah May as a name, as it's believed to be her shoot name. She's able to use the Mariah May name if both sides chose to, as she has for years. This is a different situation, but when Ricky Starks debuted, WWE was insistent that there could be issues with the name, even though he'd even technically used it on WWE TV before.