Select Answers: Samantha Irvin Non Compete, Thunder Rosa, AAA In English

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Any reason why Samatha Irvin’s non compete is two years?

Because she opted to leave the company during her deal. She had made it pretty clear to WWE she wanted to move on from ring announcing, but they offered her a big raise to stay in early 2024 to stay through WrestleMania. She took the bump in pay with a lengthy non-compete attached to it. Shortly after the new deal started, they started having her do more of the ring announcing, started to put a camera in the corner specifically to catch her reactions. There's a lot more to her departure I'm sure she'll get into, but she got a new deal with a big pay increase.

Any word on where Thunder Rosa has been? Is she injured? I kind of thought she would be in the Women’s Tag Tournament.

Thunder Rosa was injured in the Casino Gauntlet match at AEW All In in Texas. I'm not sure what the specific injury is, but it's had her out for three months. She's still doing Busted Open and has launched a new podcast with Nyla Rose. Hopefully she's back soon. They'd be good in the tag team division together.

Is the plan for AAA to get a weekly tv deal with English speaking announcers? Would that end the monthly shows they put up on their YouTube channel?

As best I know, the plan since WWE acquired AAA was to always globalize the brand. Not to the extent WWE has, but they certainly have long wanted to expand. It's starting with major shows and will eventually carry over to regular TV when the time comes for it.