Jesse Ventura Agrees New Deal With WWE

After months of talks, WWE and Jesse Ventura have agreed to terms on a Legends deal. 

Ventura revealed on Insight with Chris Van Vliet that he has yet to put pen to paper but he has agreed to return to WWE. 

"My relationship with them now has much improved. We are on the verge right now. I can say this, contracts have been written, contracts have been agreed upon. And all it requires is two signatures, one from them, and one from me. And I will be back with the legends [deal]," Ventura said.

Ventura noted he wanted to sign the deal "fairly quickly" before revealing Vince McMahon being gone from WWE was the main factor behind his return. 

"Yeah, very much so. I think that they're very much more since they merged with the ultimate fighting [UFC] and they're under that one roof now, they're very much more mainstream corporate that you can deal with better because they're more open. It isn't having to tie into the old days of wrestling, for lack of a better term, slavery. Because, you know, in the old days of wrestling, you truly were slaves. I don't know, I got a great compliment I heard the other day. Barry Bloom, my former agent, the one I introduced to Vince, I was the first wrestler that made Vince deal with an agent. And I heard Barry was on a podcast and said that all these contracts these guys are getting today, they owe Jesse Ventura a thank you. Because if it weren't for him, they wouldn't be getting them," Ventura added 

Jesse Ventura made a surprise return to WWE programming earlier this year as he was in attendance at the July 29 episode of Monday Night Raw in Saint Paul, Minnesota.