WWE Made Play For 2 Major AEW Stars

It seems WWE is still keeping tabs on talent in AEW as the company is said to have made a play for two of Tony Khan’s biggest current stars.

Swerve Strickland was beaten by Bryan Danielson for the AEW World Championship at All In but it’s not been an entirely bad few weeks for the former champion Strickland has signed a bumper new deal with Tony Khan’s company and reports have suggested that the deal was so good someone at the top of WWE thinks it’s bad for business.

However, WWE might have more reasons for being unhappy that Swerve Strickland has signed a deal with AEW that is believed to keep him with the company until 2029.

WWE Sets Sights On Swerve Strickland

Writing in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer noted that WWE had made a move to try and sign Swerve Strickland as well as his right-hand man, Prince Nana:

Based on what we’ve been told, this deal locks him up through September 2029. It was well known that WWE tried to make a play for the Strickland & Prince Nana act. The deal was reportedly agreed to a few weeks back but they saved the announcement for here.

Swerve Strickland has previously blamed political moves for his release by WWE in November 2021, just weeks after he was moved to the company’s main roster from NXT.