WWE loses former ROH star to TNA?

The following contains *Spoilers* for tonight's TNA iMAPCT! tapings:

Former Ring of Honor Champion Nigel McGuinness is backstage at the TNA iMPACT! Zone in Orlando, FL for tonight's taping, according to a report on prowrestling.net. Although Ring of Honor recently issued a statement that McGuiness had "agreed in principle" to a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment, it appears he has opted to sign with TNA instead and could debut at tonight's tapings. Nigel is expected to get a new ring name in TNA Wrestling.

There has also been some buzz that fellow former ROH Champion Bryan Danielson might be TNA-bound as well. ROH also sent out a statement last month that Danielson was WWE bound, but that appears to have fallen through. The early talk is that WWE dragged its feet on signing the duo, so TNA swooped in and signed Nigel. Danielson very well could be next.


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Report: Nigel McGuinness Fails WWE Test
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Source: ProWrestling.NET



As noted yesterday here on the website, Nigel McGuinness was telling people backstage at the TNA tapings last night that WWE took too long to finalize his contract so he opted to sign with TNA instead.

According to a new report, we can now confirm that McGuinness failed WWE's prescreening test. WWE then pulled their verbal offer and he was not offered a contract with the company.

According to a source, Nigel didn't fail for a drug test. All indications are that it was medically related.

There is no word on if McGuinness told TNA management the real story or not. There is also no prescreening test for TNA talent. As noted earlier, he was telling TNA talent that WWE took too long with their contract which was not the case.

There is no heat on WWE senior vice president of talent relations John Laurinaitis as he was only doing his job.