Select Answers: Dual contracts, Luther, TNA-WWE Releases

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Any idea how the CMLL/AEW or AEW/NJPW contracts are structured? Do they both have ROH built into the AEW side? Does each company have a say in creative for that wrestler? Will we see a "Reverse" contract where an AEW star also gets a CMLL or NJPW contract instead of just being a "loan" like MFJ has been with the Mistico feud?

Yes, they have Ring of Honor dates built in as well. The contracts generally have a guaranteed number of "dates," as well as reasonable exclusivity and first rights on dates. However, almost every contract is different these days because there's a lot more agents helping put together contracts than ever before. They used to be largely uniform. Usually the creative is collaborative, but if AEW wants to beat Mistico, certainly CMLL is going to have a major say in such a thing.

Hi Sean is there any word on where Toni Storms butler Luther is haven't seen him on television with her in a while

He's still with All Elite Wrestling and under contract, but I don't know beyond that. He'd been producing/coaching matches for quite a while as well. However, the producer lists aren't as easy to procure there.

Any word on how WWE is viewing talent that was released by them but are now on the TNA roster as far as featuring them on NXT? Is there anyone that possibly won't be used for the cross promotion efforts?

I didn't hear of anything negative regarding almost all of the WWE departures this year, outside of Andrade being released for disciplinary reasons. There certainly were some people in TNA who were wondering how the should handle the potential of WWE departures coming to TNA. However, they were quick to sign the former Jakara Jackson, so it's full steam ahead on whoever they want.