How one wrestler got out of their WWE non-compete in 2009 (Patreon)

We've mentioned this week that multiple WWE releases have asked out of their non-competes of late, and some have been able to get out of them. They'd be far from the first, as Colt Cabana tells me when he was originally fired by WWE, he was supposed to clear everything with Ty Bailey. However, Bailey's contact with Cabana was few and far between. When Cabana ended up filling Bailey's inbox with requests for approval for indie dates, WWE instead opted to buy him out of his 90-day contract as to just not deal with the hassle. Cabana was paid a lump sump for the full 90 days, not a lesser amount.