Leva Bates announces AEW contract has expired

[Chris]

 

[Deezy]

 

[Jimmy King]

Bummer, I have always liked Leva and her bits with Peter Avalon on BTE are funny.

Best of luck to her.

 

[Chris]

Leva Bates has addressed her departure from AEW.

Bates announced on May 1 that her contract with the promotion had expired and would not be renewed. The following day, she addressed leaving AEW during a live Twitch stream.

Bates said:

Yes, I am no longer with AEW but that is okay. I put a lot of love and effort and energy into that place and no regrets. I'm so happy to be there from day one before we even had a show, before we even had our first pay-per-view. I have made history, I am a part of history. So, I am forever grateful and forever will just be so thankful to have been a part of that.
But as you know, probably realized, I am not performing as much as I'd like to perform. So I'm taking all of this energy and focussing it on trying to make things happen, trying to wrestle as many places as I can, to go who knows where? I'm trying to act. I have some stuff lined up to get me on my journey.

She continued to say that she already has some independent dates booked.

Bates revealed later in the stream that she found out she no longer had a job while at the dentist.

On Saturday, Fightful reported that AEW never discussed Bates' contract status with her. She only found out when people called to check on her after they heard the news through an internal AEW email.

There were also said to be several people in AEW who pushed for her to remain with the company upon hearing the news.

Bates trained at the 3D Academy before making her pro debut in 2006. Before signing with AEW in 2019, she wrestled with promotions such as Shimmer and Shine. Bates also had a run in TNA and on WWE NXT as "Blue Pants."

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/leva-bates-addresses-departure-from-aew

 

[Spider DKR]

She may not have had her name on the marquee but then again there are no small roles in this world. I'd say she played her part well given the shushing reacts from the crowd at Fyter Fest and the like. I hope she continues to do what she loves.

 

[Deezy]

She didn't know that her contract expired, no one informed her and left her in the dark......she was Office Space'd.

And she was dumb enough to not know she was in the final year of her guaranteed 6 figure deal and not try let the office know she's ready to renegotiate,

 

[Canadian Dragon]

CD seems bad at his job , could have been handled better. Not gonna pretend to be upset by this though, im sure shes nice but i did not find her entertaining in anything ever

 

[Alexa]

People not knowing their contract is up seems to be a common thing

 

[Y2Jayne]

I remember finding her and Avalon quite entertaining during the first year of AEW. I take she ended up on the Dark shows as I haven't seen her in a while.

 

[Roy Mustang]

CD seems bad at his job , could have been handled better. Not gonna pretend to be upset by this though, im sure shes nice but i did not find her entertaining in anything ever

Yeah I love CD but I think they need someone new in this role because this keeps happening

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Yeah I love CD but I think they need someone new in this role because this keeps happening

its not the end of the world, its still a new company all things considered but yeah, I think maybe the wrestlers doing office jobs and HR might not be the best idea at the end of the day. and i get it, it sucks being the bad guy