WWE Ready To Make Outstanding Offer To Top AEW Star
A former champion in AEW is expected to sign with WWE and will get paid very well when they arrive.
Mariah May worked for AEW from late 2023 as an ally of “Timeless” Toni Storm. After turning heel, May won the AEW Women’s Title at All In 2024 and was positioned as one of the top female stars in the company.
Storm would go on to win the title back from May, and they ended up having a bloody blowoff match at the Revolution PPV in March that Storm won. May hasn’t appeared on AEW TV since then.
It has been reported that May intends on leaving AEW when her contract expires at some point this summer or early fall, so AEW is essentially “benching” her until her contract runs out. Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that May told AEW that she wanted to sign with WWE when she was able to do so.
“May hasn’t been on television since the Revolution PPV which was the blow-off of her feud with Toni Storm. I noted many times that I was surprised at doing that match at that time because it was such a hot feud and didn’t need a final blow-off after just three matches. Apparently May made it clear at that time that she was not signing a new deal and so they booked it at that time for that reason.
Tony Khan usually doesn’t use wrestlers that he thinks are leaving on television, although every case is different because he did use William Regal until the end, but Regal also agreed to an early release with a clause that he couldn’t appear on WWE television for one year. There have been stories going around that she signed a two-year deal which will be up in a few months.
What has happened in other cases (Penta and Fenix among them) is they want to start renewal talks and the performer seems to make it clear from those talks they aren’t signing. When that’s the case, Khan normally takes the person off television.
We can’t confirm the time frame but can confirm that there has been talk in WWE regarding her coming in with it being known by key people in WWE the belief that she wants to come in. She’s another one whose dream had always been WWE, to the point that I was surprised when she first signed the deal with AEW out of Stardom, although her AEW stardom was her ticket to being pushed as a star from day one in WWE.
WWE Is Interested In Signing Mariah May
According to SportsKeeda’s Backstage Pass Patreon, WWE is expected to make an “outstanding offer” when May becomes available, which is anticipated to occur in late summer or early fall.
As noted above, Tony Khan has let some AEW wrestlers out of their deals early if he knows they want to go to WWE, but it doesn’t mean he will do that with May as well.
Mariah May was in Las Vegas last weekend while WWE was in town for WrestleMania 41 because May appeared at the Wrestlecon event.