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As we reported yesterday, there have been a number of talents from the European wrestling scene who are no longer able to appear on the certain independent events that are streaming online on streaming platforms competing with the WWE Network due to signing WWE deals to appear in the UK Championship tournament.
The talents being pulled from events continued today as WWE UK talents Pete Dunne, Mark Andrews and Trent Seven were due to appear at a live "Working a Resthold" podcast Q&A ahead of a WXW show in London next week, except organizers announced today that they needed to be removed due to their WWE deals.
We are also hearing that talents cannot appear on events that would be posted online on services such as Vimeo and that in some cases they are being moved to dark matches for promotions or being finished up altogether as some promoters don't want to have their hands tied in how they can use talents with WWE restrictions.
As I wrote, the ripple effects of the new WWE deals were going to be felt. There are some in the scene upset about the situation but at the end of the day, talents were given a chance to work for WWE and very few are going to turn that opportunity down. The opportunity, as all contracts do, some with certain restrictions. Unfortunately, the fallout of those restrictions are certainly going to drive independent promoters nuts, especially when they have no grace period and previous plans had been made with advertising put in place.
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