After WWE announced Knockouts Champion Mickie James would be competing in this year s Women s Royal Rumble, the possibility of WWE suddenly bringing in surprise wrestlers from other companies seemed like a real possibility. That speculation was then amplified when @WrestleVotes tweeted out last [.]
The idea of WWE working together with All Elite Wrestling might sound crazy on the surface, but both Cody Rhodes and AEW owner Tony Khan have left the door open to the possibility during recent interviews. Rhodes was the first to get the ball rolling, telling the New York Post, There s no reason [.]
Cody Rhodes Opens the Door for a WWE Crossover With AEW
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All Elite Wrestling currently finds itself working with Impact Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, the NWA and various Japanese Joshi promotions as part of its weekly programming. In a new interview with the
New York Post this week, AEW executive vice president Cody Rhodes was asked about the possibility of crossing over with WWE, its direct competition. The odds of WWE working with a promotion of AEW s size are incredibly slim, but Rhodes left the door firmly open for it to happen down the road. There s no reason that there couldn t be a potential WWE crossover one day, Rhodes said. And I don t mean that s a thing that s been discussed or happening, but none of those rules that exist for other places exist for us. Wrestling is really this universal industry. The territory reference that you made, that s fairly accurate, but the part of it that s most accurate was there was a genuine trust.