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WWE has been busy. Over the past several weeks, the company has reportedly closed in on a handful of new signings pulled from the independent scene, NJPW, AEW, and TNA — all at once.
The Dropouts
Newest name on the list: Australian tag team The Dropouts. Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp and Ella Jay reported Wednesday night that Scott Green and The Tuckman are expected to land in WWE after wrapping up their run in Australian wrestling and attending a tryout. The Tuckman has built a reputation for his entrances — which is saying something on an indie circuit where everyone's trying to out-entrance each other.
Hiromu Takahashi
Sapp also reported this week that WWE is interested in Hiromu Takahashi, whose NJPW contract expired in January. Takahashi spent 16 years there and won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship five times. He's wrestled for ROH and CMLL too, with occasional AEW stops, his last coming at Forbidden Door 2025, where he lost to Kyle Fletcher for the TNT Championship.
Baron Corbin
Corbin's name is back in circulation. The former U.S. Champion and Money in the Bank winner left WWE in fall of 2024 and has spent the time since working the independents as Bishop Dyer. That run hit a snag this past Saturday, when Dyer was pulled from Major League Wrestling's Fusion and stripped of the MLW World Tag Team Championship, right as rumors of a WWE return picked up.
Mike Santana and Eric Young
Both former TNA World Heavyweight Champions are reportedly WWE-bound following their recent exits from the promotion.
Big Bill
Formerly known as Big Cass, Big Bill is expected back once his AEW deal runs out this summer. Word is he'll reunite with old tag partner Enzo Amore.
Where the Odds Stand
None of these free agent moves have hit betting markets yet. Sportsbooks wait for a debut date or an announced match before they'll set a line. But the rest of the WWE calendar hasn't paused for these rumors, early odds are already out for SummerSlam, set for August 1-2 in Minneapolis.
Roman Reigns is a heavy -500 favorite, according to Gambling.com, a leading authority on US sweepstakes casino sites and sportsbooks, to retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship against former SHIELD ally Seth Rollins (+300) — a line that puts his odds of walking out champion above 80%. Liv Morgan sits at -220 to defend her Women's World Championship against Iyo Sky (+165), even though Sky beat her outright in the Queen of the Ring final. The number bets on Morgan's Judgment Day backup swinging things her way. Steepest line on the card: Oba Femi, a -3,000 favorite over Brock Lesnar (+900) in Hell in a Cell, with Lesnar widely expected to be wrestling out the twilight of his career.
Why the Tag Division Is the Story Here
Any one of these is just a free-agency rumor. Stack them together and a pattern shows up: WWE is rebuilding its men's tag team division after losing The New Day and Motor City Machine Guns earlier this year. An Australian duo with real indie buzz. A former IWGP Junior Heavyweight champion who's spent his career mostly in tag and trios matches. Big Bill and Enzo, a reunion waiting to happen. None of that reads like a coincidence.
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