Sweet timing. Just in time to get an injunction in place prior to Sunday.
Maybe. All it takes it a judge on a Friday afternoon to want to wait until Monday to hear evidence from both sides.It's a non-issue. While AJ was working without a contract for NJPW, the other two were still under contract (and still are). They couldn't sign anything with TNA even if they wanted to. The best outcome would be a letter of intent, but those are meaningless. And it's also be contract tampering. Bitter TNA is being bitter.
It says in the statement that they never actually signed a contract, just negotiated and agreed to sign one at a later date. There's nothing to go to court about.Maybe. All it takes it a judge on a Friday afternoon to want to wait until Monday to hear evidence from both sides.
It does?It says in the statement that they never actually signed a contract, just negotiated and agreed to sign one at a later date. There's nothing to go to court about.
These terms are pretty material. The only major one missing from that list would be compensation. Verbal agreements are fully enforceable, so unless it was a letter of intent that specified that it was simply an agreement to negotiate in good faith, there might be enough here to get beyond a courtroom's doors.A handshake and written deal between AJ, Drew, Chad and TNA was agreed upon and signed by all. Start dates were determined, creative decided, merchandise designed and plane tickets purchased.
Fair point. Reading comprehension...and stuff."Over the Christmas holiday, and after the lawyers finalized the long form agreement, all communication with TNA stopped."
The 'long form agreement' is the actual contract. Anything signed before that would just be a letter of intent.
Gallows didn't have a contract with NJPW either, according to /squaredcircle.It's a non-issue. While AJ was working without a contract for NJPW, the other two were still under contract (and still are). They couldn't sign anything with TNA even if they wanted to. The best outcome would be a letter of intent, but those are meaningless. And it's also be contract tampering. Bitter TNA is being bitter.
Fair point. Reading comprehension...and stuff.
I still find the timing and the source quite curious. Letter of intents are not on their face unenforceable. Again, all TNA needs here is to get a lucky pull from a sympathetic, lazy, or underqualified judge.
Gallows didn't have a contract with NJPW either, according to /squaredcircle.
Just like Dixie had to go out and say WWE was trying to steal their talents after WWE got Styles, Nakamura, Gallows and Anderson from NJPW.
And AJ Styles has flat out said they're coming on Jericho's show the other day. I assume he'd be in the know about this.Could just be him not wanting to give away the result of the last big New Japan shows him and Gallows are on in a few days since they are trying to win the tag titles back.