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WWE interested in signing former Impact Wrestling World Champion

Archie Blade
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WWE interested in signing former Impact Wrestling World Champion

WWE interested in signing former Impact Wrestling World Champion. The promotion has reportedly sent out feelers to the recently fired star.

The WWE are reportedly interested in signing former Impact Wrestling World Champion Tessa Blanchard. The recently fired star is the first female wrestler to hold the number one Men’s singles titles across all major wrestling promotions around the world.

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Blanchard was scheduled to defend her title against multiple opponents at the Slammiversary Pay Per View event. However, following a failure to come to an agreement over a new contract, Blanchard was stripped of the title and eventually let go.

Dave Meltzer noted on the Wrestling Observer Radio that the WWE has “sent feelers out” to contact Tessa about potentially working together. It is unclear if the AEW are looking to add her to their roster as well. However, Blanchard is currently in Mexico with a travel ban in place.

There are also issues surrounding her past behaviour. In fact, she has worked with the WWE in the 2017 Mae Young Classic. She lost to Kairi Saine in the first round. The WWE however, passed on signing her to a developmental deal because of “attitude issues”.

The racial allegations made against her doesn’t help her case either.

AEW’s Cody Rhodes has previously expressed his interest in bringing her to the promotion. However, with the promotion trying to come across as more liberal and inclusive than Vince McMahon’s promotion, it will be interesting to see if the company go for someone with Blanchard’s past.

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Archie Blade

Archie Blade

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Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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