What if WWE buys out Impact Wrestling and Ring of Honor?

#2 Jay Lethal finally comes to WWE

Jay Lethal is one of the best in the world never to have worked with WWE. That might change.

Over the years there have been a number of top, respected talents from smaller promotions for whom it remained a question if they’d retire without ever having made the leap to WWE. That was a particular consideration during the era when WWE seemed most consumed with “home-growing” their talent and rejecting guys with the stigma of honing their craft outside the WWE system.

The past decade saw guys like CM Punk and Daniel Bryan pave the way for talents like Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens. As NXT leaned into its hardcore fan sensibilities, we’ve only seen the company skew more and more toward welcoming in talents from ROH, New Japan, and other smaller or international promotion

Jay Lethal is on the very short list of elite veterans of smaller companies who has still never hopped over to WWE. If WWE were to acquire both his current employer, ROH, and his old stomping grounds of Impact it may well finally mark the time for Lethal to sign with the biggest wrestling company in the world, and show off his considerable talent for the mainstream audience.