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Select Answers: Bayley, Lucha Bros, AAA

Added 2025-04-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Did Bayley really sign a new contract recently?

Based on the most recent information we have, Bayley signed a new deal towards the back half of 2023 or start of 2024. WWE typically tries to lock people down into five year deals. I don't have details on the length of her deal.

Hey SRS, Will we get Fenix and Penta together eventually? They are amazing together. WWEs Tag Teams seem kinda weak or is it me?

Yes, they'll absolutely be together at some point in the future. When I asked someone associated with the creative, they thought that both were capable of holding their own separately, generating buzz on their own, and then can create a big moment whenever they reunite. I think the Smackdown division is very talented. Both divisions need booked better though.

With the TNA partnership, the AAA acquisition, and increasing inroads into indie wrestling via WWE ID and the relationship with GCW/Bloodsport, is WWE back in monopoly mode?

I personally was shocked that WWE outright bought AAA. I figured a talent exchange was on the horizon. I think WWE is doing working relationships largely because of the MLW antitrust settlement. It's hard to prove a monopoly when you're "working with" so many companies.