{"id":785774,"date":"2026-07-07T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:47:10","slug":"further-details-emerge-on-sheamus-wwe-contract-status-potential-aew-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785774\/","title":{"rendered":"Further details emerge on Sheamus\u2019 WWE contract status, potential AEW interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News broke on Sunday that Sheamus was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/sheamus-reportedly-set-to-leave-wwe-after-turning-down-contract-extension\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preparing to leave WWE<\/a> after nearly 20 years with the company and on Monday, more is being learned about the details of his contract, when his departure might be official, and whether AEW is interested in bringing him in.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Pearl and Jeremy Lambert of Fightful discussed the situation on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0_lxJgL-QmY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In The Weeds YouTube show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be reiterated that Sheamus turned down a contract extension and he was not released,\u201d Pearl said. \u201cOnce he\u2019s done, he is out. There will be no 90-day (non-compete). There will just be Stephen Farrelly \u2014 professional wrestler, workout artist \u2014 doing whatever he wants once that contract ends, which we do not specifically know the date of expiration. He has been moved to the WWE alumni section. That happened (Sunday).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair then talked about WWE trying to restructure Sheamus\u2019 deal recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe swiftly rejected WWE when he was approached about a restructured contract while he was out with injury,\u201d Pearl said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re told that the WWE contract was set to expire within months of that happening anyway or there wasn\u2019t a purpose for an imminent release or waiting out the 90 days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also noted that something had changed in Sheamus\u2019 status because his original deal was not supposed to expire until 2029.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt said he signed a five-year deal in 2024,\u201d said Lambert, researching the last time Sheamus signed a contract. \u201cWhich, obviously, that\u2019s still only two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, Fightful reported that friend and former tag team partner Claudio Castagnoli is expected to be one of many to push for his signing with AEW.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"preferred-source-link\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Google-CTA.jpg\" alt=\"Google Icon\" class=\"google-icon\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/the-vision-win-world-tag-team-titles-on-wwe-raw-after-surprise-outside-help\/?utm_source=navigation-previous&amp;utm_medium=internal\" class=\"gms-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News broke on Sunday that Sheamus was preparing to leave WWE after nearly 20 years with the company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-785774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}