For months now, Rey Mysterio has remained in contract negotiations with the feeling being that it’s an inevitability he will be signing with the WWE for a return. Of course, we’ve seen him make a couple of appearances for the company this year as he entered the Royal Rumble back in January as a surprise participant, as well as took part in the Greatest Royal Rumble back in April.

While there were some reported hangups in talks such as schedule and remaining appearances that he’s already booked such as the All In event on September 1st (read more about that here), today there’s some indication that the two sides have finally agreed to terms on a deal. Northeast Wrestling will be in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on August 24th which Mysterio had initially been advertised for. However, the promotion posted the following to Facebook today:

Of course at this time, nothing has been confirmed and Mysterio is still scheduled to compete at All In, teaming with Bandido and Fenix to take on The Young Bucks and Kota Ibushi.

EA’s Take: There’s been so much talk about Mysterio signing with WWE, I felt I had to call this “rumor” just because at this point, who knows when it will actually happen. I don’t see why NEW would put that out though if it’s untrue, so I tend to believe it. I do find it interesting with All In now just over two weeks away that this has come out since that was reportedly one of Rey’s sticking points in the negotiations. So that would mean if he has agreed to a WWE deal, the company finally budged on letting him compete at the show despite all the talk that they’ve been trying to prevent talents from doing so. They already signed Deonna Purrazzo which forced her to be pulled from All In, but she doesn’t have the same kind of stroke or leverage, so to speak, that Rey would have.

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