Below are a couple of top WWE news stories of the day.
• In the past, WWE talent could only retain their ring names in other companies if those names were their real ones or were used before joining WWE. However, this policy has changed under the new TKO era.
The Wrestling Observer reported that the current deals with WWE now allow wrestlers to keep their ring names after they leave the company:
“I was told that these new TKO deals are such that when you go to WWE, they are going to trademark everything. For example, Ethan Page went and they trademarked Ethan Page. This is from someone in the company, when you leave they hand everything over to you now.
Apparently when you leave WWE, and it’s kind of the same thing I think with AEW, it’s like [Stephanie Vaquer] can leave and take her name. Ethan Page can leave and take his name. While you’re there, they own the rights to everything for pro wrestling.
But that is a very big change from back in the day when they owned you into perpetuity. [Stephanie Vaquer] very much wanted to keep her name and apparently, they’re allowing her to keep the name in WWE. They’re gonna trademark it while she’s there.”
This marks a significant departure from previous practices where WWE would retain the rights to a wrestler’s name indefinitely. Now, wrestlers like Ethan Page can leave WWE and take their names with them.
This change aligns WWE’s policy more closely with AEW’s, where wrestlers also retain their names upon departure. Lince Dorado and Gran Metalik are examples of talents who have kept their names after leaving WWE.
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• WWE has announced the following for next week’s RAW:
– CM Punk will appear
– Sonya Deville vs. Lyra Valkyria
– Xavier Woods, Otis & Akira Tozawa vs. The Final Testament (Karrion Kross & Authors of Pain)
