The topic of AEW’s budget has been a huge talking point amongst WWE Superstars as of late, especially after Cody & Brandi Rhodes departed the All Elite promotion.
The Rhodes’ reportedly left after a falling out between Cody and Tony Khan, who couldn’t come to terms on how much the former TNT Champion should be paid as part of a new contract.
In this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer reported that some in WWE believe there are budget problems in AEW, which would explain why two top-tier names recently re-signed with Vince McMahon:
“On the WWE side, talent was talking like AEW had a budget issue, noting that two WWE names who were both great workers had deals up, with Kevin Owens being one and the other not being Sami Zayn, but someone whose contract situation has not been public, and there was at least interest in them as far as seeing what AEW had. Legally neither one could be negotiated with and Owens signed a new deal before his old deal expired.
