{"id":478912,"date":"2025-10-06T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478912\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T21:05:13","slug":"wwe-star-leaving-the-company-contract-expiring-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478912\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Star Leaving The Company, Contract Expiring Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-class=\"LazyLoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WWE-Logo-shiny-2.jpg\" alt=\"WWE Star Leaving The Company, Contract Expiring Tonight\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    WWE<\/p>\n<p>A WWE star is confirmed to be leaving the company, with their contract set to expire at midnight tonight and become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, it was reported that the contract of WWE SmackDown star Santos Escobar was set to expire \u2018soon\u2019 amid his ongoing absence from the show.<\/p>\n<p>In an update on Santos\u2019 status with the company from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WrestlePurists\/status\/1975280749747036372\">PWInsider Elite (via WrestlePurists)<\/a>, Santos\u2019 contract with WWE is set to expire as of midnight tonight, with him set to depart the company and become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>As of midnight tonight, Escobar will be a free agent, and will be available to wrestle or sign anywhere that he wants to.<\/p>\n<p>PWInsider notes that WWE had made overtures to keep Escobar under contract, which included a higher contract offer, but he turned down the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Santos\u2019 Legado Del Fantasma stablemates Angel and Berto of Los Garza were in action on last week\u2019s episode of SmackDown, where they appeared without Santos, but still announced as representing the group.<\/p>\n<p>We will provide any updates on Santos\u2019 future as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlingmasterclass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-436300 size-full\" data-class=\"LazyLoad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wrestling-masterclass-9-stars-webp.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"128\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>To make sure you stay up to date with all the biggest wrestling and WrestleTalk news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@wrestletalk.official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow us on Threads by clicking this link<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"share\">Share this article with friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE A WWE star is confirmed to be leaving the company, with their contract set to expire at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6092,159009,77,159008,16,15,149],"class_list":{"0":"post-478912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-contract","9":"tag-departure","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-santos-escobar","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115329258398105540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}