Saraya has provided more details on her contract status following her AEW exit and has also commented on the WWE return rumours.
The former Women’s Champion surprised fans earlier in the year when she announced that she would be leaving AEW soon to pursue other projects, which include her new podcast Rulebreakers and her recently released autobiography Hell in Boots.
Shortly after the announcement, it was reported that the British wrestler was not quite done with the promotion yet as she was still under contract, with one outlet claiming that she would not be a free agent until September 2025. However, while speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Saraya confirmed that she is a free agent and could show up at any promotions as soon as possible:
“I’m a free agent now. I could pop up anywhere. No, my contract’s done, done. That’s one thing that helped is because they gave me the opportunity to walk away from this contract. Not a lot of companies or businesses would do that, but Tony was really, really great about it. So I was like you can keep paying me, or I can just take a hike.”
When asked if there were any terms of the exit, such as a non-compete, Saraya responded that there was nothing attached and she is free to pursue other avenues:
“No, Tony was great. It was a clean split.”
Will Saraya Be At WWE Evolution?
As soon as the British wrestler made the announcement that she was leaving All Elite Wrestling, fans immediately speculated that a WWE return was on the cards, potentially at the all-women’s show Evolution on July 13. When asked about this being a possibility, the former AEW star did not rule out the possibility:
“It’s like a bittersweet thing, because the first one, I couldn’t be on it because of my neck. So if I had the opportunity to be on this all-female pay-per-view, of course, yeah, I would think about it.”
With many former AEW stars making their debut/return to WWE over the past few years, some have kept their original WWE names while others have continued to use their AEW characters in the rival promotion. When asked if a hypothetical return would be as Saraya or Paige, the former Divas Champion did not hesitate:
“Paige, 100%. I miss Paige so much. I tell people all the time. So again, when I went to AEW, I didn’t want to be close to my character in WWE because of the comparisons. I was like, Okay. And then I ended up being like a chicken sh*t heel with AEW, which is all fun and good, but there’s a ceiling to that. Whereas Paige, I mean, she’s generational. I love her. She’s bad ass, tough as nails, just screaming all the time. I loved being her. She was a f*cking badass, and that felt more like an elevated version of myself, rather than doing what I was doing in AEW. But again, that was my decision to be like that. But then I was like, Damn I wish I leaned more into my original character, but it is what it is. You live, you learn.”
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