Since the recent clash on Street Fighter V between WWE Superstars The New Day and New Japan Pro Wrestling’s The Elite, the rumor mill surrounding a possible jump to the WWE by Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks has been loaded to say the least.

WWE has only fueled those flames as well, promoting the video game battle between the two groups, posting a seldom-seen clip of Kenny Omega while in Deep South Wrestling on the WWE Network and even following The Young Bucks on Twitter briefly. Many fans have seen these as signs of the parties all finally coming together, especially with Kenny’s NJPW contract set to expire at the end of January next year, while The Young Bucks also reportedly only have six months remaining on their deals with Ring Of Honor.

According to The Wrestling Observer, WWE is fully prepared to make offers to Omega, The Young Bucks and former WWE Superstar Cody Rhodes by the end of 2018 because “WWE wants to eliminate competition”. Additionally, it’s being said the company was hinted that the company could be tossing them all big money offers. This sentiment was also echoed by the WrestleVotes Twitter account:

This weeks Wrestling Observer hints that WWE could throw a LARGE $$ offer at Cody, The Bucks & Omega at years end. They are legit stars but partly because they also want to end the “threat of competition”

I’ve heard similar. The offers will come. No one knows the decisions yet.

— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) June 28, 2018

EA’s Take: Per usual with The Observer, I’m sure this is a nice margarita blended with truth and a bit of falsity. As far as I know, WWE can’t approach anybody under contract or else it opens them up to a potential lawsuit, as we’ve seen in the past with TNA and the recent rumors they offered contracts to people already signed to MLW (check that out here). Therefore (and I’m sure somebody will correct me if I’m wrong here), the only way Cody, Omega or The Bucks would be getting any kind of offers from WWE by the end of 2018, they would have to be the ones to make that phone call, so to speak. Personally, it’s going to take a lot of concessions to get The Young Bucks just by themselves, both creatively, with the schedule and monetarily. Is WWE finally willing to make such decisions? Plus, NJPW’s new President is really putting an emphasis on growing outside of Japan, so who’s to say he’s not willing to really pony up the dough either? Quite honestly, WWE would live on without any of these guys, no matter what anybody says. Would it be awesome to see as a fan? In the words of Steve Austin, “Oh hell yeah!”. However, we’ve thought before there was a chance and yet, here we still are. At the end of the day, it’s all speculation until they actually show up on WWE programming.

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