WWE's creative plans for Jade Cargill revealed

Jade Cargill's contract and signings has been the talking point around the wrestling industry in recent days. It was reported that the former AEW TBS Champion’s current contract with AEW has expired and WWE is planning to sign her, and another source reported that she is expected to visit WWE Performance Center this week. With her status being a question mark, her creative plans for WWE debut and her pay-deal are revealed.
Jade Cargill’s WWE Creative Plans
On the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that WWE has already started working on Cargill's creative. They discussed her status, whether they would debut in NXT or not, her experience level and how her debut impact and creative plans would be and how much she got paid and so on.
Dave Meltzer said,
“They’ve already started working on creative for her. I heard that yesterday when I was asking around about, ‘Is she locked in’? And she wasn’t locked in, but they’ve been talking about her a lot. It’s not like this is just some minor thing to them, it’s a big thing to them.”
“She’ll get a focal push, because the money to take to get her, you have to give her a chance to get over because they’re not paying what they would pay a normal person to start there. It’s not like it’s Charlotte Flair money or anything like that, or Becky Lynch money, but for a newcomer to the company, it’s much higher than they usually go, so she got a good deal.”
“And they’re talking about her a lot more than they would talk about somebody that they brought up from NXT. So she ain’t gonna be Tegan Nox or somebody who’s brought up, or Candice LeRae, that’s just kind of brought up and there.”
“I got the impression it was the main roster just because of the expense of bringing her in. They could put her in NXT for a little while before bringing her to the main roster. In a sense that would make sense, but then you’ve gotta justify the money.”
“I could see them putting her in NXT for a short period of time, but my impression is the creative they were talking about was not NXT creative, so they have plans for her.” [h/t Wrestle Talk]
Where do you think will Jade Cargill be debuting in WWE? NXT or at Main roster (Raw & SmackDown)? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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