From the interview, Andrade said he is negotiating with WWE to get a deal to get out of a 12-month non-compete clause. He also mentioned that WWE activated the non-compete clause after his AEW appearance, before that, he was free.

Says he jumped to WWE because of Charlotte even though he was happy at AEW. Supposedly he had a friendly agreement to leave WWE again and they only got pissed when he turned back up at AEW. And insane that WWE’s non-compete is world wide.

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    I guarantee you if he went anywhere else, even CMLL, that non-compete clause wouldn’t have been a thing. I ALSO guarantee you IF he went CMLL and then did a single match in AEW suddenly that non-compete clause WOULD be a thing again.

    For a company that doesn’t view AEW as a threat, they sure do view AEW as a threat.

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      2 months ago

      Absolutely correct. WWE wasn’t counting on Andrade actually having goodwill left with TK.

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    2 months ago

    On the one hand, that’s some bs by wwe. On the other hand, I am perfectly fine with not having Andrade back in AEW for however many shows before he again burns his bridges.

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    The fact that he thought he was free and clear, but that poison pill was lurking, tells me he needs an agent and a lawyer to handle his contracts going forward.

    And if he already has them, he needs to fire them and get better ones.

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      Absolutely. And at this point everyone above NXT levels of fame/pull who WWE approach to hire better be negotiating NCC’s the fuck out of their contract before signing because of this shit.