It’ll be interesting to see where guys like Samoa Joe, William Regal, Keith Lee and Jeff Hardy end up. AEW seems like the foregone conclusion, but there’s a bloat problem there. Impact is not going to be able to compete with money, but they can by offering deals that allows these people to still appear for New Japan and even WWE, casually.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Mickie James Rumble appearance leads to anything bigger for Impact. There will be more people in that building watching her live than watch her on television in the same city. And then WWE is probably going to send Impact something in return.
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