News on how WWE negotiations have changed
Added 2023-05-12 20:13:04 +0000 UTC2021 saw some major WWE contracts expire in Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole, but a gigantic part of the roster is signed through 2024 after huge contacts were handed out in 2019. 2022 saw a major regime change, but an implemented negotiation method seemingly stick around.
In many cases, WWE would start to reach out to talent to extend their deals a year and a half before they expired, but we're told that is already changing. Completely separate of the Adam Cole and Pete Dunne contract snafus in 2021 that saw deals expire without the company realizing, Fightful learned that a change in talent relations and a major turnover internally, in addition to some new faces at the top of the company had changed the way contracts were negotiated in the last year or so of Vince McMahon's regime before he left. Fightful was told that the newer approach was to come closer to their expiration date before negotiations begin in many cases, a practice that was already in effect as of the Summer 2021. That wasn't exclusively the case, but was a big adjustment from WWE looking to lock down talent way ahead of their deals expiring.
Under Triple H, it remains to be seen how things will change, but thus far, we haven’t heard of many cases where talent were negotiating deals way ahead of time, so it looks to so far be the same method.
Comments
their policy changed in late 2021. It stuck through the regime change
Fightful Select
2023-05-15 05:13:56 +0000 UTCSomebody explain this to me in simpler language. I'm not following. In 2019 they had one policy on contracts which changed in 2021 but didn't and continued in 2022 but was changed but now it's back to what it was in 2021.
Aristidis Fantis
2023-05-13 11:01:11 +0000 UTCWas curious about this, thanks!
e d
2023-05-12 21:51:01 +0000 UTCTrue but if you’re the wrestler you probably want to see what the competition offers. There is a second option now and SRS indicated there is huge money to be made now.
Scott Newcomb
2023-05-12 21:29:57 +0000 UTCI agree, this seems like something that’s going to bite them in the ass in the long term
Coty Spalding
2023-05-12 21:01:42 +0000 UTCI honestly don’t think it’s a great idea to wait for someone contract to be close to expiring. If I was WWE I would be trying to re-sign someone at least a year to six months at the latest before there deal expires. Great report SRS
Matt Hennessy
2023-05-12 20:25:47 +0000 UTC
