Reality Check
Keepin' it 100
I'd place bets on the following talent to be ket go when their deals are up
Hager
Sabian
Sonny
Jack Evans
Butcher
Blade
Colt Cabana
Luther
I also would let Christian and Hardy go when their deals are up or get production gigs similar to Daniels now. I'd keep Janela in a small gig mainly doing Dark/Elevation and head of talent relations with indies.
I'd dump everyone in the nightmare factory including Ogogo, too many major injuries to have him succeed, might keep Johnson. QT and Dustin get the inevitable backstage gigs bit the rest, see ya.
That's also with the assumption that Jericho will take a good ass vacation and tbh I wouldn't mind having him not return, it was fine but clock is ticking homeboy
Ones in bolded aren't going anywhere. Cabana is already a coach/producer, QT is running The Factory, which I guess is the forming of their developmental system, and Dustin Rhodes has his own wrestling school + a backstage role with AEW waiting for him.
Now they gotta open up the checkbook to keep him unexpectedly
They were going to have to do that anyways; been saying since AEW was announced in January 2019 that they're going to back the brinks truck up to his door to resign him. Only thing I got wrong is it might be more than just one brinks truck pulling up.