The latest on Sasha Banks and WWE, New Japan dates - Cageside Seats

Just arsenic soon arsenic word came down from PW Insider that Sasha Banks would beryllium headed to the Tokyo Dome for Wrestle Kingdom 17, a cardinal questions person been raised, from what this means for her presumption with WWE, to her declaration presumption successful general, to what her program for New Japan is, to wherever AEW fits into each this.

Now, Dave Meltzer has reported what helium knows astir everything connected Wrestling Observer Radio. The agelong and abbreviated of it seems to be:

• She has agreed to aggregate dates with New Japan Pro Wrestling, and “as acold arsenic they are concerned, they person a deal.”
• It’s inactive imaginable she re-signs with WWE, which would mean the New Japan woody falls through, but the 2 sides were inactive acold isolated connected wealth arsenic of the past connection connected negotiations betwixt them.
• Her contract, assuming WWE doesn’t enactment a frost connected it similar they person with others successful the past, volition beryllium up by the extremity of the twelvemonth and marque her escaped and wide to motion anyplace else.
• He said AEW could evidently spend her but it’s unclear if they person a relation successful immoderate of this. When helium asked astir her moving some New Japan and AEW, helium got a “non-answer.”

What this means overall, arsenic overmuch arsenic thing else, is that she is not coming backmost to WWE. As Meltzer enactment it, “as of close now, she’s done with WWE.”

It’s been immoderate 7 months since she archetypal walked retired of the company, and she’s kept herself plentifulness engaged successful the meantime with extracurricular projects. The extremity ever seemed to beryllium a instrumentality to pro wrestling, however, and fans expected that instrumentality to travel successful WWE, particularly present that Triple H is moving the show.

With each time that goes by it’s looking much and much similar that won’t beryllium the case.