Brian Cage reportedly staying with AEW

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fwiw, I swear I saw on Reddit earlier a tweet from Cage trying to play down this rumour. Something along the lines of 'huh, I said this?' You could find it on his twitter I assume.
 

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fwiw, I swear I saw on Reddit earlier a tweet from Cage trying to play down this rumour. Something along the lines of 'huh, I said this?' You could find it on his twitter I assume.

Yeah thats the one mentioned in the OP I think but he's acknowledged other stuff about staying since so thought that was more talking about how the report mentions his reaction and feelings about the news lol
 

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I'd be very critical if they're withholding his release for no good reason as that's a waste of AEWs money and Cage's time and would be stupid as fuck
As would I, for the record
 
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fwiw, I swear I saw on Reddit earlier a tweet from Cage trying to play down this rumour. Something along the lines of 'huh, I said this?' You could find it on his twitter I assume.
He was basically saying something like " I told this to people?" Type of comment. Tbf he no sold his initial aew debut report as well iirc
 

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Technically it wouldn’t even have been a release…

His contract would’ve expired.
 

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So hard to say, for all we know he just working the dirt sheet marks
 

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Mb he had heat w Cody lol
 

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Technically it wouldn’t even have been a release…

His contract would’ve expired.
I'd be very critical if they're withholding his release picking up his option for no good reason as that's a waste of AEWs money and Cage's time and would be stupid as fuck
 

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I'd be very critical if they're withholding his release picking up his option for no good reason as that's a waste of AEWs money and Cage's time and would be stupid as fuck
There you go

If you gonna pick up his option, at least put the man on Dark or something

And I’m saying that as someone that doesn’t even like Brian Cage
 

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This has reminded me that I'm still baffled why a Cody option wasn't picked up lol I'm thinking Tony really didn't want him to come back more and more
 
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This has reminded me that I'm still baffled why a Cody option wasn't picked up lol I'm thinking Tony really didn't want him to come back more and more
His wrestling wasn’t good enough
 

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Cool that he re-signed with the company and he better pray that they start doing up note things with him ongoing forward.
 

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This has reminded me that I'm still baffled why a Cody option wasn't picked up lol I'm thinking Tony really didn't want him to come back more and more
In all seriousness it really is sounding more n more like a mutual breakup isn't it
 

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This has reminded me that I'm still baffled why a Cody option wasn't picked up lol I'm thinking Tony really didn't want him to come back more and more
Hasn't his whole thing supposedly been that he wouldn't keep people under contract who didn't wanna be there? The main things that came from their split was supposedly that Cody wanted to be paid more and they had different visions I think? Maybe it just looks better in a PR sense for them to not to come to terms on a new deal / amicably? part ways as opposed to picking his up his option and then him maybe requesting to be released?
 

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Hasn't his whole thing supposedly been that he wouldn't keep people under contract who didn't wanna be there? The main things that came from their split was supposedly that Cody wanted to be paid more and they had different visions I think? Maybe it just looks better in a PR sense for them to not to come to terms on a new deal / amicably? part ways as opposed to picking his up his option and then him maybe requesting to be released?

Yeah that'd make sense too, would lead me to believe Cage wants to stay then as well