Released WWE Stars Heading To IMPACT Wrestling?
IMPACT teased Andrade, Samoa Joe, Mickie James, and more in their Slammiversary hype vignette.
IMPACT Wrestling aired a vignette for their upcoming Slammiversary pay-per-view at Rebellion 2021 last night, announcing that the show would go down sometime in July without giving a specific date away.
Primarily comprised of shots of Nashville, where the promotion is based, the clip also featured brief flashes of several recently released WWE stars, plus notable NJPW and Pro Wrestling NOAH names.
Former TNA/IMPACT stars Samoa Joe, Chelsea Green, and Mickie James featured alongside New Japan's Tetsuya Naito and Kazuchika Okada, as well as NOAH's GHC Heavyweight Champion Keiji Muto. The video used footage from each of the Japanese wrestlers' previous runs in IMPACT.
The vignette also showed glimpses of the Australian and Mexican flags, teasing The IIconics and Andrade respectively.
IMPACT adopted a similar strategy ahead of last year's Slammiversary, showing EC3, Eric Young, The Good Brothers, Curt Hawkins, Mike and Maria Kanellis, and Drake Maverick in the video, as well as a Bulgarian flag. Miro didn't show up, and neither did the Kanellises and Maverick, but the rest eventually did.
Of the names listed above, The IIconics, Green, James, and Joe will be free to sign elsewhere once their 90-day non-compete clauses expire on 14 July. Andrade was let go without such a clause last month.
See the full Slammiversary announcement video below.
IMPACT Wrestling returns to PPV in July with #Slammiversary - where our world changes again! pic.twitter.com/uGTbwncJHB— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) April 26, 2021