Brian Cage Confirms He Has Signed A Lengthy Contract Extension With All Elite Wrestling

Brian Cage will remain All Elite for the foreseeable future.

Brian Cage has been part of AEW since Double Or Nothing in 2020. Since then, he’s been an FTW Champion and a former Trios Champion alongside the Gates of Agony.

With his contract coming up, Cage felt it was the right thing to do for him to explore free agency and see what lies for each company he has been eyeing which was brought up during an interview with Dan Severn and Eric Carroll on their ‘Unleashed’ show.

My contract was coming up last year with AEW and I was going back-and-forth with WWE and AEW with my agent. You know, trying to see where we should fit and there’s pros and cons to both and a big reason — I mean, there’s a lot of reasons but, a reason big to stay with AEW was the fact that there was a lot more certainty so to speak. It’s not necessarily a guaranteed contract but more, for lack of a better term, the contract was essentially guaranteed compared to WWE’s which is — I mean, I could be signed there today, gone tomorrow, you know what I mean? So, I thought about it and I got a lengthy, lengthy term with AEW as well so I’m like, alright, you know what?… We (Cage & Melissa Santos) just had another kid too. My son’s about four-and-a-half months old now and I have two other kids but, I was just thinking for, not just professionally but personally, I’m like, for the security, for the length of the contract and comfortability as well. We’re already there, things, you’re used to it. I was like, yeah, if it’s not broke, maybe don’t fix it and I was like, ‘Yeah, maybe it’s just best to stay here and stay put and make the best out of it…’ Going back to Tony (Khan) being such a fan and such a good person and everything else, it plays a big role into that and the way he takes care of his talent and treats his talent and thinks about his talent as actual human beings whereas, you know, not to talk negative crap on WWE and obviously Paul (Levesque), Triple H in charge over there now is making a lot of changes but, for the longest time, it’s kind of looked at as you’re almost just cattle in WWE and once they don’t need you, they’re like, alright, see you later, get the hell out of here, we don’t need you or, they don’t really care as much whereas like, AEW definitely seems like they’re more, like, group and family and if something was to happen — I mean, we’ve had a couple people pass while under contract and Tony still paid off their contract to their family and has taken care of them and stuff which is pretty unheard of so, there’s just a couple examples of how he really cares about the people on his roster.

In his first back of 2024, Cage tore his latissimus dorsi and teres major. Cage also expects to be on the Zero Hour for AEW Dynasty before his stablemate Swerve Strickland battles Samoa Joe for the AEW World Championship in the main event.

h/t from POST Wrestling.

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