News on major free agent's landing point (Patreon)

A major wrestling free agent will have a home soon.

Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp has learned that the plan as of now is for Ilja Dragunov to land in All Elite Wrestling. We're told that this has been the plan for some time, but some final details are getting nailed down to make it a reality.

Those we spoke to said a number of the recent WWE departures from out of the United States were facing visa expirations or visa hurdles that was affecting their free agent process, and Ilja was among them.

We have not confirmed that Ilja has put pen to paper, but he is set to join AEW barring unforeseen circumstances.

Ilja will be able to continue to use the Ilja name, as it is his given name. We aren't sure about Dragunov, which he did use prior to WWE. He left the company last month after his WWE deal expired and he chose to move on. He's been contractually able to sign elsewhere for a number of weeks.

The 32-year old Ilja last appeared on WWE TV in April in a battle royal, but barely wrestled on television this year. He was seen training this Summer.