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Brian Cage is All Elite, and he’s staying that way.

Fightful Select has learned that ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champion Brian Cage put pen to paper this week, and signed a long-term, multi-year deal to remain with All Elite Wrestling and Ring of Honor. Tony Khan told Fightful after ROH Supercard of Honor that he was hoping to keep Cage and the Embassy with the company for a long time.

Fightful noted in recent months that Cage’s deal was coming up. There were conflicting dates within the negotiations about how long Cage actually had committed on the deal, and he’d effectively became a free agent as of midnight after Supercard of Honor. We’re told that several top talent had pushed for Cage to re-sign, but there were also top talent in WWE who were angling for him to end up there. We’re told WWE had some interest in Cage, but he ended up liking the offer made by AEW. Cage worked with an agent throughout the process.

Those that we spoke to said that AEW worked hard to get the deal done in the last couple of weeks, and it was agreed upon in principle by the time creative was started with Swerve Strickland.

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Adam Frazier

I mean... good for him, I guess!

Michael Owens

Well yeah WWE's on a hiring freeze you said..

John Horton

It's still bizarre to me that they literally didn't use him for a year. Never explained.

David Feig

any updates on Billie Starkz? Not clear what kind of deal she signed or at what tier yet...

Kev O'Connor

He's absolutely deserved the contract with his work over the last 6-8 months. He had a poor/average act after he left team Taz but he's certainly done better lately

Kev O'Connor

I think they mean after his feud with Team Taz was done. Tbf, he was quite poor for 12-18 months but the last 6-8 months he's been superb.

John Horton

He wasn't booked for pretty much a year between 2021-2022. That's a fact. His wife even complained about it online.

Justin Ackley

Ever since Cage came back to tv a bit ago he's crushed every match he's been given. Good for him.

MisterFaiz

I wonder how many wrestlers, that have appeared on roh tv are signed or per appearance deal

David C

Cage as Swerve’s muscle is such a massive upgrade on Parker.

DC

If WWE has had a hiring freeze since December, did FTR and Jay White work Tony into a shoot and make him bid against himself? It’s funny how a few days after the hiring freeze news leaked Cage re-signs.

Keith Kripke

Good to see this. Now give him a monster push in ROH.

slick

WWE re-signed Logan Paul .. not sure how much a hiring freeze there is.

Andrew Placko

Hopefully he nailed them down on some sort of a specific plan.