Penta El Zero Miedo is now not All Elite. Per Fightful Choose, Penta’s contract with AEW has formally expired, and the luchador is now “successfully a free agent.” This report relies off of reports “heard inside the firm,” and it is unclear whether or not Penta or AEW will make an official assertion concerning the luchador’s departure. Penta won’t be joined by his brother and Lucha Bros teammate, Rey Fenix, in his AEW departure, because the latter has had his AEW contract amended to incorporate harm time. Fenix is projected to be AEW expertise for practically one other 12 months.
The Lucha Bros have been utterly absent from AEW programming since August 2024, when it was initially reported that each males had been involved with WWE. Why Penta initially entered conversations with WWE has but to be disclosed. Whereas their conversations might suggest strained relations between the luchador and AEW, it has been reported that Penta, Fenix, and former Loss of life Triangle member PAC had been in rivalry to win the AEW Trios Championships at All In previous to the contract debacle. Nonetheless, all inventive plans for Penta appear to have been cancelled after stories of his dialog with WWE surfaced.
Preliminary stories believed that Penta and Fenix had been WWE-bound, however Fightful Choose has reported that WWE had not talked about the duo “in an official capability” as lately as November 25. Whereas a WWE entry appears unlikely for Penta, it’s reported that a number of unbiased promotions have expressed “heavy curiosity” in reserving Penta for “marquee matches.” Additional data, similar to whether or not Penta is beneath any non-compete clause or the names of stated curiosity promotions, has but to be disclosed. The way forward for the Lucha Bros can be unsure, with any data concerning Fenix’s intentions post-AEW contract expiration unavailable right now.
