AEW: Brian Cage Contract Update, AEW All In Tickets Wait List Surpass 50K, Thunder Rosa Injury Update

Brian Cage AEW Contract Update

As noted before, Brian Cage recently signed a new contract with AEW for AEW and Ring of Honor that is for multiple years in length.

Fightful Select reported that their sources confirmed a recent report from the Wrestling Observer that stated that Cage’s new contract is five years total in length. Those same sources reportedly also stated that Cage’s new contract contains terms giving AEW the ability to exercise an additional sixth year as an option.

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AEW All In Wait List Reportedly Surpasses 50,000

As noted before, AEW’s upcoming All In event at Wembley Stadium had a waiting list of around 35,000 for the presale for tickets as of last week.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that the waiting list for AEW’s All In event recently surpassed 50,000 for its presale, which takes place on May 2nd.

Johnson reported that if even just half of the people on the waiting list purchase a minimum of 2 tickets, that would mean a paid attendance of 50,000 for the event ahead of tickets going on sale to the general public starting on May 5th.

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Thunder Rosa Comments on Injury Status & Her Apology to AEW’s Locker Room Over Her Issues

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast featured Thunder Rosa as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rosa providing an update on the status of her back injury.

“I’m not cleared. I have not been cleared. There are more things that have happened in the past couple of weeks. I’ve gotten in the ring, and unfortunately, the pain is still there. It’s very frustrating. I want to get in the ring and do what I do best and that’s wrestle. To get that opportunity again. I know there’s been a lot of controversy in the last couple of weeks and Thunder Rosa has been trending on Twitter, I don’t use Twitter, but I get constant messages that I’m trending. It’s weird. We have All Access which has stirred a lot of stuff that I tried to put aside because it’s painful. I think listeners are tired of me ‘complaining.’ I don’t want to make this a complaint. I don’t want to make this about me. I want to make this about focusing on the AEW women’s division, which I’m very impressed with, especially the last couple of weeks. Our champion, Jamie Hayter is one of the hardest hitting women in the world. Riho, Emi Sakura, we are seeing some different matchups and they have been awesome. I feel it’s taken a backseat because people are talking about this.”

Rosa also stated that she had apologized to AEW’s locker room for the issues she had caused related to her injury and the AEW Women’s World and Interim Championships.

“First and foremost, I want to make sure people understand, at the beginning of this drama, everyone was speculating that I wasn’t hurt. It was proven that I was hurt. There are MRIs, they talked to my doctor, I had multiple epidurals, and I’m still not cleared. I had another MRI last week and the pain is still there. For me, personally, I wanted to drop the title the day that I couldn’t wrestle because they told me I was going to be out four to six weeks. My boss [Tony Khan] made the decision and said, ‘you’re going to be the champion and we’re going to have an interim champion.’ For me, as a competitor, I wanted to make it fair so my peers had an opportunity to defend the championship because it wasn’t fair that I wasn’t there, I wasn’t going to be there, and I was going to hold the title. The problem comes, and this has been the question raised about me not showing up; I wasn’t booked to go there. When I got the news that I wasn’t going to keep the title, it caught me by surprise. ‘Today is the day, okay.’ I wasn’t able to go. I wasn’t able to get in the ring and say, ‘Guys. Unfortunately we made the decision, here is the title, thank you for the opportunity to let me represent.’ That opportunity wasn’t given to me. That’s pretty much it.

I want to make sure we focus on the women’s division now. I’m not there in the ring. I’m not a superhero to be able to get in the ring. We have to respect the people that are now representing the company. I have talked to the locker room. I took accountability for the things that some people had issues with me, and I went out there and apologized. That’s the best thing I can do. I want to make money. I want to make sure I can work with everyone, regardless if we have any issues or not. At the end of the day, I’m booked to wrestle, unfortunately I can’t wrestle right now. I’m human, I don’t pretend to be a superhuman. I’m not here to be a martyr and I don’t want to be a victim. Right now, there is no storyline between Britt Baker and I. God as my witness, every morning and every night, I pray to God that there is one thing I want to do and one thing only. Not to get the championship, but to settle this in the ring, for once and all, and wrestle Britt Baker and show the world what a real professional wrestler is.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com