WWE recently released ten superstars due to budget cuts that includes big names like Samoa Joe, Mickie James, Billie Kay, Peyton Royce and more. Following that many fans speculating that Samoa Joe and The IIconics will end up in AEW.
The former AEW World Champion Chris Jerico recently had an interview with New York Post and discussed about several topics including recent WWE releases.
During the conversation, Jericho said that guys like Tucker should prove what he can capable of before looking into AEW but Samoa Joe is main event heavyweight champion and he would to see him in AEW in future.
“You look at a guy like Tucker for example,” Jericho said. “I don’t know if we would take him tomorrow, we might, but it seems to me if he goes and proves what he can do and what he’s capable of, well then absolutely.”
“Obviously, the one name that stands out as an established main-event heavyweight champion guy is Samoa Joe. Those guys have three months before they can go anywhere. But I’d love to see Joe in an AEW ring at some point. That’s another dream match if you want to go there. I’ve never (wrestled him). I think we had one little, three minute sh*tty little match on Raw and it was just kind of thrown away. And I didn’t want to do it because I said this is a pay-per-view match, but that’s the WWE style. I think Joe and Jericho, Joe and Omega, Joe with Cody, Joe with put name here is a money match.”
Chris Jerico also already stated that AEW can’t sign everyone and they also can’t bring former WWE Superstars if they expected to continue with their homegrown talent. Currently, the recently released 10 WWE superstars are under non-compete clause and we have see who will end up where once they are done with the clause.
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