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Headline: Bea Priestley Turns Down WWE Offer?
Next Thursday sees All Elite Wrestling's next rally - which will be a ticket announcement
pool party for their Double or Nothing show which takes place on May 25th.
The rally will take place MGM Grand Hotel, with Brandi Rhodes posting on Twitter that
she could be bringing more of the female talent they've signed with the company to the event.
Following the last AEW rally in Jacksonville, it was reported that WWE were aggressively
trying to sign up a lot of female wrestling talent from around the world to boost their
own division and - more importantly - stop them signing elsewhere.
It was reported last week that WWE had signed British wrestling stars Kay Lee Ray and Viper,
but a new report says another popular star on the independent scene has actually turned
down a WWE offer in order to sign with All Elite Wrestling instead.
Dave Meltzer has reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that AEW have signed Bea Priestley - who
has wrestled all over the world and held titles in various promotions like Defiant and WOS
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Priestley is also the real-life girlfriend of NEVER Openweight Champion Will Ospreay,
but the current speculation is that Ospreay will not be signing with AEW and will instead
sign a new deal with New Japan.
If this report is to be believed, and Meltzer is pretty much on the money with his AEW reports,
we will likely see Priestley at the AEW rally next Thursday.
Headline: AEW Tease Kenny Omega Debut
Someone else who most likely will be at that Ticket Announcement Party is former IWGP Heavyweight
Champion Kenny Omega - who has been heavily linked to All Elite Wrestling since it's
announcement at the start of this year.
While many have been expecting an announcement of Omega joining AEW since it was reported
his New Japan contract was expiring either at the end of January or the start of February
- many fans speculated that Kenny could show up at WWE's Royal Rumble because, well we're
wrestling fans and that's what we do.
But the idea that Kenny Omega will be signing on the dotted line with All Elite Wrestling
and not WWE seems to be more reality than speculative fantasy going by the end of this
week's Being The Elite - which featured a post credits scene where Matt Jackson was
talking to a mysterious person who recently lost their phone.
And wait… didn't Kenny Omega lose his phone last week?
Revealing at the end that OH MY there's an app that helps you with wedding planning!
Oh, right the timer.
And yes,it's counting down to February 7th 2019 - the same day as AEW's Ticket Announcement
Party at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Hmmmm…
And get yourselves ready, as we're about to head into Speculation Station.
Last week it was reported that current Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey could be leaving
WWE following WrestleMania 35 - not because her contract was up but because she wanted
to start a family and needed the time off to do that.
But according to Pro Wrestling Torch - who have over three decades of wrestling reporting
and a very solid track record - there is another big name leaving WWE after WrestleMania.
Headline: Dean Ambrose Leaving WWE?
Wade Keller of Pro Wrestling Torch is reporting, "Dean Ambrose has given his notice to WWE
[and] he will be finishing up when his current contract expires at the end of April.
He broke the news to management this weekend, including directly in a meeting with Vince
McMahon, after being offered a new contract and a raise weeks ago."
Keller writes in his report that Ambrose has been "long frustrated with the creative
direction of his character" and that he "reached a breaking point recently."
The report says that Ambrose has told WWE that he is not interested in negotiating the
matter further, with Keller speculating that WWE could write him out of storylines before
WrestleMania, which he argues explains his unceremonious elimination from the Royal Rumble
and his clean loss to Seth Rollins on Raw.
Keller's source says that one of Ambrose's biggest gripes in the company is that he "hates
hokey s**t" and a lot of his character has been built on that as of late.
Speaking about the subject on Wrestling Observer Radio Dave Meltzer - who as of now is not
backing up the report but certainly believes it could be true - has said that Ambrose being
frustrated makes sense as, "He doesn't like doing scripted interviews and he gets mad
when he has to do hokey things."
And before people can jump on the All Elite Wrestling rumour train, Meltzer adds: "The
first conclusion people will come to is AEW, but I don't know anything about that.
I have not heard his name, but there is a lot of stuff that is trying to be kept secret.
I'm not sure they're looking at taking too many names from WWE."
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