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FREE POST: Ilja Dragunov leaving WWE (Patreon)

Published:
2026-08-20 17:01:33
Imported:
2026-11

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Earlier today, PWInsider reported that Ilja Dragunov was leaving WWE after his contract expired. Fightful Select has since confirmed that news.

Dragunov has been off TV for five months, but sources had claimed that he kept training during that period.

Comments

Cris

Free to sign immediately or 90 days?

Thad Perkins

Wow. I don’t blame him. They really wasted his talent on the main roster.

Magan Yusuf

not the answer. AEW's bloated as it is.

Cameron

Genuinely what is wrong with this company how do you not see anything in him!

MB

Ilja in AEW and New Japan, give it to me!

Cris

Wow… was not expecting that

Crazy101_

Casino gauntlet 👀

Troy A Palek

If it's when his contract expires there is not a no complete cause

Scott George

If you can't figure out how to use this guy that's a you problem.

Matthew

Gauntlet match at wembly please Mr Khan

Sorastro

Always hoped we'd see him and Gunther renew their rivalry in the fed. He'll be great at his next stop. If TK brings him in, he'll be big in Jacksonville

Witty Comeback

Most of the WWE midcard will go the same way, WWE has its pre approved stars to push basically locked in for the next 5 years and everyone else is just fodder for the undercard. Hope ilja smashes it elsewhere and I'm sure he will

Zach

That’s a really bad miss by WWEZ

Tom Barnard

I better see him at Wembley holy shit

Adam I

Where can he get paid good $ besides AEW and WWE?

Ali Khan

AEW!!!!!!!!!!

Nikolas Schulz

What a joke. Best p4p wrestler in the organization

Megan Loves Professional Wrestling

To me, this is a no-brainer. A "you put me on the shelf" angle could have sustained them for several months, but instead what has Gunter been doing? Trash, that's what.

SugarBearJonez

i wonder if they tried to offer him half the monies. that seems to be a their deal as of late.

Daniel Beesley

yeah idk how wwe managed to miss the boat on this guy, he was beloved in nxt and while he was us champ, and then it felt like he just vanished.

Flameducky

Lately I've felt like aew has been bringing in too many ex wwe guys. This one is different. He's only 32. He could be a top guy.

Megan Loves Professional Wrestling

My amazing skills of pattern recognition foretold this was going happen. This company is full of too many nepobabies and not enough outside talent. The only reasons a truly talented person goes to WWE is brand recognition, and to be in a video game (if they last that long). Otherwise there's no reason to be in wwe: the pay is shit, the schedule is shit, the morality of the company is shit. While "a job is a job" to some people, I simply have less respect for talented wrestlers who choose to go to WWE, and those who stay despite their shit creative. Loyalty doesn't mean anything anymore when the workers who earn the company money take pay cuts and deal with lay-offs while corporate do-nothings line their pockets. Greed is a mental health disorder run rampant in, and encouraged by, capitalism.

Sorastro

I completely agree

Will Landrum

Benefit of AEW/NJPW/CMLL doing multiple contracts (I cant remember the proper term for it)

Insomnia Inc

he's one of the more unique performers out there, how they messed that up.. I have no idea, then again that could be why. Hopefully AEW-bound, as the sheer match combinations are staggering.

Ryan

Not for someone like Ilja, who in AEW currently has the same gimmick?

Stalla

No we don’t want him.

Thad Perkins

Idk if it’s even that. They continue to operate on who’s moving the most merch. And while that does have SOME merit, it’s also weird becuase they don’t give other talent the same effort for stories and matches. That writing team needs a complete overhaul.

Jared Yeldell

If He Joins AEW & Casino Gauntlet In London ITS SO OVER FOR TKO/WWE THEYRE GOES THE KO AND ORTON RETURNING/FATAL GOLDEN BELTS MOMENTUM

SnapGrapplePop

Is it “expired” expired, or like Sheamus expired, where it turned out he still has a notice period

Eric Brewington

Now I can't blame Llja dragunov for leaving the fucking damn crazy ass WWE because they truly wasted that man's talent and potential especially when he got to the main roster between both WWE raw and SmackDown respectively eat okay, he will definitely do a whole lot better in AEW or NJPW and even also he could go to MLW wrestling organization as well!!!!!!!?? Eric. Thank you!!!!!!!

Daniel Johnson

He will get “wasted” in AEW too. They have more wrestlers than WWE does and less tv time

Thad Perkins

Well I didn’t say he was AEW bound. Not everyone wants to go there.