Vaquer has left CMLL, and has been stripped of the CMLL World Women’s, and World Women’s Tag titles. A new world champ will be determined this Saturday between Lluvia, Viva Van, and Willow Nightingale.
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WON: Stephanie Vaquer Receive Heat from CMLL and NJPW for Unfulfilled Obligations
“When she had told them (CMLL), they basically asked her and said you know ‘we won’t stand in your way or anything like that, if you want to go you can go, but just do business the right way’. She’s got the tag titles in CMLL, she’s got the CMLL singles title, and it was basically go to San Jose, where she’s been advertised for months and drop the title there, drop the tag title, we’ll do a farewell. And the feeling was, that they expected that of her and basically told her ‘look they want you (WWE) and they may not want you to do that, but you haven’t signed yet so you can just tell them, I want to go out the right way’. Then on Monday when she signed, she told them that Tuesday, which was last night in Guadalajara (July 9) was her last night, and she wouldn’t be coming to Arena Mexico on Friday, she wouldn’t do any of the dates – she’s got dates all over the world. The idea was to come to San Jose and drop the title and she didn’t do that. CMLL was very upset over her, you know because of what happened, and also they had never been targeted in this way by WWE.
“New Japan was very upset because when they first announced the show in San Jose she was in the first batch of people announced, and they have been advertised for months. It’s kind of like their basic thing is ‘you’ve been advertised for months for this show, in a championship match and then five days before the show you pull out, and you’re the champion’. AEW wasn’t happy because they did want her and they made an offer to her, but she went with WWE. That’s the place she wanted to go, but how it happened was not well received.”
Update since then.
Maybe they respect CMLL less than NJPW but WWE let Karl Anderson finish up his dates. Feels like this may be more on Vaquer and CMLL not having rock solid contracts
Scummy move either way
CMLL’s MO when a big-name North American company comes calling for their talent is usually ‘eh sure you can go’, contract solidity or not they try not to stand in the way of getting picked up, but you’re definitely right that it feels off somehow.
A lot of talk is out about her wanting to rip-off-the-band-aid and get it over with because of her legal stuff (an ex, a wrestler, tried to kill her, hes in jail, big thing) but the story doesn’t hold up as there’s defenders of that man in CMLL, AEW and WWE so she’s not avoiding ‘people’ by going to WWE.
Stuff will probably come out soonish.
