Official Wrestling News Thread

You would think the third party stream rule will keep wrestlers from signing with this company. You have no touring so those paychecks are gone so at least let them get that back by streaming
 
Damn thats wild

gonna be interesting to hear what she says about her release and how it went down
 
RbgYhzI.gif


But...good for her. Cuz the shyt WWE doin taking over their stars Twitch accts and taking portion of their money...

this_is_bullshit_the_wire.gif


Now she's free. If anything, she'll probably gain even more followers.
 
Update: WWE sources confirm Vega has a 90 day non-complete, so the earliest she could be seen elsewhere on national TV would be mid-February 2021.
 
Multiple WWE sources have confirmed to PWInsider.com that today's release of Zelina Vega was fallout from last month's edict that talents drop their relationships with third party entities such as Twitch, Cameo, etc. in favor of World Wrestling Entertainment spearheading those relationships and fielding talents out as part of their contractual duties.

PWInsider.com is told that Vega was informed late this afternoon that she was being released before tonight's Smackdown taping. As we noted earlier, she would be under the traditional 90 day non-compete window, which would keep her from working televised promotions through mid-February 2021.

Vega was not released as a result of her tweet this evening about unionization, as one WWE source stated that word internally of her release came "well before" that Tweet.

WWE sources indicated that Vega had been extremely vocal about maintaining her Twitch account after the edict had been handed down. That lead to some WWE talents who reached out to PWInsider.com tonight wondering if she had been released to "send a message" to everyone else to make sure they follow the company's requests regarding third-party entities. Obviously, WWE is not going to confirm or deny that.

Vega had continued her Twitch streams until announcing she was suspending them on 10/30. That would be the day after a number of talents, including AJ Styles and Xavier Woods, had traveled to Stamford, CT to meet personally with Vince McMahon about the third-party edict but obviously failed to change McMahon's mind.

Vega has already written online that she will be returning to streaming on Twitch, likely under her former ring name, Thea Trinidad.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top