AEW: Britt Baker on TV Role Being “A Little Backed Off”, Gunns on No Longer Friends with FTR, More News

Britt Baker on Her Current Role in AEW Being “A Little Backed Off”

Fox Sports AU held a recent interview with Britt Baker. One of the topics discussed included Baker’s thoughts on her current role and focus on AEW programming being “a little backed off.”

“Right now I’m not having weekly matches, I’m not having weekly promos, so it’s a little bit backed off. I try not to bother him and bug him (Khan) because there are 100s of other wrestlers texting him on a daily basis, I’m sure. But for example when I was champion, I was texting with Tony several times a week with different ideas, and he was sending me his ideas, and he’s very straight-up with me. He’d tell me ‘Britt, that’s not a good idea, I don’t like that’, or ‘hey, let’s make this better’, and I really appreciate that from my boss. Honesty is one of the most helpful fools anyone can ever give you when you’re learning your craft, especially when you’re learning TV professional wrestling. I couldn’t ask for a better boss than Tony Khan and he has helped me so much growing as a performer, as a wrestler, as a human being. He’s really a special guy and we’re lucky to work for him.”

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The Gunns on Issues with FTR & No Longer Being Friends Over It

WrestleZone held a recent interview with The Gunns’ Austin and Colten Gunn. One of the topics discussed included The Gunns thoughts about their recent feud with FTR in AEW and their real life issues with FTR that caused their backstage friendship to end.

Colten Gunn – “So I started about two years ago. When we were younger, we weren’t really allowed to watch wrestling that much because my dad was in the Attitude Era and you had people flicking each other off and telling people to suck it, so we weren’t really allowed to watch it that much. So when we got into it, we had to look at a team that we wanted to emulate and be like and we just gravitated towards FTR. We’d ask them questions all the time and look for guidance. We respected them so much and then we wrestled them the first time. We’ve wrestled them four times and when we wrestled them the first time, we were so excited. Right after that match, everything changed with us and FTR. They no longer saw us [as somebody they helped], they saw us as peers and they saw exactly how good we were. They didn’t have time for us anymore so we made it our vendetta that we were gonna end their legacy and we did. We beat them. We’ve wrestled them four times and they’ve never beat us straight up. The first time, Wardlow interfered. The second time they had to use the AEW Champion [CM Punk] in a six man match. The third time, our own guy hit Austin in the head with a crutch. The fourth time when it was just us and FTR, that’s it. We beat them. Then we went out and we held a funeral for them and we ended their legacy. That chapter is done just like The Acclaimed chapter is done. They’re in our rear view mirror. We’re done with them. I do not like them, I do not want to see them come back. They can go to whatever other promotion they want to go to, but we’re done with them. We ended that legacy. There’s no more seven star FTR, just The Gunns.”

Austin Gunn – “Yeah, I got sent a few things on Twitter that Dax was talking about us on his podcast and it just put all of that into perspective. Shoot, me and Colten don’t get along with FTR anymore backstage. So like he said, we don’t care where they go. We don’t care about their contracts, we don’t care about them coming back. That’s shoot. We don’t get along. We hate to see it come to that. I never wanna bash any other wrestlers, but I think they wanted to be these guys backstage where everybody came and asked them questions and they wanted to be the veterans backstage and when me and Colten no longer asked them for advice, I think they took that personally and now you can feel it backstage. We don’t talk to them, they don’t talk to us. I don’t care. I don’t care.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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AEW News & Notes

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Daly City, California featured a Face of the Revolution ladder match between Powerhouse Hobbs, Konosuke Takeshita, Ortiz, Komander, Sammy Guevara, Eddie Kingston, and AR Fox. Following the match AEW held a backstage digital exclusive interview with Kingston about his loss in the match. Kingston briefly stated that “I quit AEW. Peace” and took his bags and left. Kingston most recently worked at Ring of Honor’s ROH TV tapings this past weekend in Orlando, Florida.

AEW and events distributor Joe Hand Promotions recently announced that they are partnering again for the airing of AEW’s upcoming Revolution 2023 event on Sunday, March 5th at select theaters across the United States.

AEW also recently announced that their upcoming Revolution 2023 event will be airing live on Bleacher Report’s B/R App, official website, and connected devices. It was also announced that the event will also be airing on traditional cable and satellite pay-per-view providers in the United States and on FITE TV for international viewers.

AEW recently launched a new official Spanish-language AEW channel on YouTube.

Former Stardom talent and current indies wrestler Jungle Kyona made her official debut for AEW this past October. In a recent interview with Kotatsu Studios, Kyona stated that she is currently interested in working for AEW in the future. Kyona stated:

“I was surprised when I got the offer (to wrestle for AEW). Riho’s a Japanese wrestler and she’s the inaugural AEW Women’s World Champion. There was a lot of attention for the match too because Riho hadn’t been on AEW for a while so I was able to be in a match that had a lot of people watching. I’ve had title matches against her in Japan and had also teamed with her too. So I was very happy to be able to fight her, at AEW of all places. Tony Khan gave me a fist bump after the match and told me I did a good job. I was very happy about that. I asked him to book me on AEW again.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com