AEW has changed the wrestling landscape forever by making deals with Impact Wrestling and NJPW. The WWE has yet been public about making a deal, but I imagine some sort of agreement will be happening soon. It’s a win/win for the WWE and wrestling fans for a deal to be put in place and here’s why.

Wrestler Swapping is the best way to keep fans engaged and stories fresh. The WWE’s biggest mistake is focusing their attention on a select few wrestlers rather than expanding on the talents they already have.

There is Raw, Smackdown, Main Event, 205 Live, NXT, NXT UK, AEW Dynamite, AEW Dark, Impact Wrestling and NJPW. After many painstaking hours, I have come up with a potential shakeup of wrestlers and unsigned free agents that can populate those shows and make for compelling matches.

The only issue is bad blood with firings. The WWE fired a bunch of wrestlers during the Covid months. Would wrestlers be willing to come back if it means being put in meaningful feuds and championship matches? ACH left NXT at his highest career point citing racism and burned his WWE bridges, but what if he was to return to a prime spot?

The salary would be easy to negotiate. Let’s say (I don’t know what he makes but using a round number) Johnny Gargano makes 1 million dollars this upcoming year. The writers would write out all the potential storylines for Gargano and ship him around to the companies. Gargano spend some time on NXT, Impact, RAW and rounding out the year on Dynamite. It would get split up evenly be his time in each company. How they would negotiate his time and need in each company while excluding others will have be ironed out before a deal is made. The swapping of wrestlers is to keep storylines fresh in EACH company and making sure ALL have an equal amount of talent to shine.

Main Event, AEW Dark and 205 Live I feel are shows made for wrestlers that don’t have anything major going on and give them a place to show their talents as time slots open up for them to shine. Mojo Rawley and Slapjack are not main eventers, but have had impressive showings on Main Event. I wouldn’t make these shows simple hour long shows with many commercials, but 2 hours with compelling storylines and feuds that fans would like to see.

For some wrestlers, the situation matters more than the company. Most of the time it’s not the companies fault entirely. WWE has made it clear they don’t know what to do or have time for Aleister Black and Andrade. It doesn’t mean they aren’t main eventers; it just means they are preoccupied with their bread-and-butter talents like Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Kevin Owens and Braun Strowman. Now if you take Aleister Black and ship him off to NJPW and have him fight the likes of Okada, Taiji Ishimori, Kenta, Tama Tonga, and Jeff Cobb that can be some good wrestling.

There will be no ratings war. Monday you have RAW, Tuesday you have NXT followed by NXT UK, Wednesday you have Dynamite, Thursday you have Impact, Friday you have Smackdown and Saturday you have NJPW. The potential main event matches for these days can be Seth Rollins vs Jay White, Johnny Gargano vs Marty Scurll, Kenny Omega vs Randy Orton, Hangman Page vs Matt Riddle, Roman Reigns vs Lance Archer and EC3 vs AJ Styles. It would be the ultimate set of dream matches for fans. Every promotion will be filled with a massive amount of talent. Main Event, 205 Live and Dark can be a preshow to RAW, Smackdown and Dynamite featuring matches like Colt Cabana vs R Truth, Stu Grayson vs Kalisto and Tucker Knight vs Chris Hero.

I will be making a massive shakeup video soon and be talking about specific wrestlers’ futures and different shows and also the feuds they can expect to have soon. But what shakeups would you love to see happen?

Simptastic Joe