AEW: Preston Vance on Perro Peligroso Name & LFI Involvement, Nigel McGuinness, More News

Preston Vance Comments on Origin of His Perro Peligroso Name & LFI Involvement

A recent episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast featured Preston “Perro Peligroso” Vance as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Vance revealing that Chris Jericho was the person who came up with the idea for his Perro Peligroso nickname.

“I’ll touch on right now who gave me the awesome name (Perro Peligroso) and it was actually Chris Jericho came up with it. So, whatever he says is like gold because he’s been doing it forever. Any advice Jericho gives, I’m listening to and then he kind of helped a lot with the whole unraveling of it. I would go to him every week, sit in his office and man, we were supposed to do it months before it happened and you know, stuff out of everyone’s control just kept happening. We were gonna do it in Jacksonville because that was kind of the home of AEW for a while so I thought it’d be cool to do it there and we had Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago and I’m like, well that’s a huge, huge show, huge weekend, perfect. So, I feel like the Dark Order, we weren’t going anywhere so I wanted to do something. I never knew RUSH before this or Jose (the Assistant). RUSH is honestly probably top five funniest guys in the locker room. He’s the best. His charisma’s out of control so, I don’t know, we’re having fun though. I like working with them a lot. It’s different and also a learning curve because my Spanish is not fluent or very existent at all. So it’s fun to put stuff together with him. Jose is a huge help with the translating stuff obviously. But I will give RUSH credit. He does say he practices his English every single day and you can tell each week, he gets way better.”

Vance also stated that Andrade El Idolo was the person responsible for coming up with the idea for him to join La Facción Ingobernable.

“I remember I was somewhere backstage and Andrade (El Idolo) pulled me aside and was like, ‘Hey, I’m gonna go to Tony. I want you with us. I think you’d look cool in a suit, take off the mask’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah. Let’s do it.’ I was doing the ‘10’ thing for, at that point, like three years so, I was pretty ready to change. I never liked wearing the mask. I never wore it before AEW. It’s hard trying to connect with the people when you’re under a mask. There are pros and cons to it. A pro is that you never have to worry about facial expressions or anything but the con is I mean literally, it’s hard to show any enthusiasm. It’s all body language, body language and so I’m pretty glad I’m done with the mask.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Nigel McGuinness Comments on His Interesting in Coming Out of Retirement for AEW All In

Digital Spy held a recent interview with Nigel McGuinness. One of the topics discussed included McGuinness’ thoughts on his interest in potentially coming out of retirement to wrestle one more time at AEW’s upcoming All In event this August in London, England.

“It’s certainly the event and perhaps a final chapter to my career, to my journey, so Wembley Stadium certainly springs to mind. There are a number of factors, I’m an age now and at a place in my life where I certainly don’t want to harm the rest of my life. I don’t want to get any injuries or anything serious that’s going to impinge my ability to enjoy my life as a parent or to travel. So that’s certainly a concern. You’ve also got to understand that at a show like Wembley, there are so many guys that are super talented and deserve those spots as well, so to take one of those spots for myself I think would be pretty hard. I think if we sell the place out, maybe I’ve got no argument but to go dust the boots off. But it’s so many things, it’s the event, it’s the opponent, it’s the timing and it’s hard to know. I cannot give you a definitive in that regard.

In terms of dream opponents, obviously it would have to be someone like Dragon [Bryan Danielson], given our history and the true story that’s there. I think the best stories, the best angles in wrestling, always have that undercurrent of reality and it’s just so real there. It’s just so real and it’s so honest and authentic and nuanced as well in the sense that, it’s not just as simple as there’s a good guy and a bad guy, you can understand and you can identify with both of our journeys. We were once going in the same direction and now we’ve gone in completely different paths, but there’s a lot of emotion there to establish and even if that means me just being on commentary for a match of his as well. There are guys like Jonathan Gresham or MJF as well, those sort of guys that you go, ‘Yeah, I think I could really have a great match with them.

But then you think to yourself, ‘Well, the old Nigel McGuinness could really have a great match with them. I’m not sure about the Nigel McGuinness now’ Someone said a while ago, ‘I bet you could get in the ring tomorrow, couldn’t you?’ I said, ‘I’m sure I could, I’m just not sure I could get back out afterwards, that’s the reality of it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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AEW News & Notes

Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent episode of the AEW Dynamite Review Postshow that his sources stated that AEW officials are currently working on fixing their issues of having hot acts and stars disappear from AEW television after getting some momentum. Sapp stated that House of Black and Swerve Strickland were two examples of hot acts that AEW officials are actively trying to resolve their momentum loss issues.

In a recent interview with the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts provided an update on the status of a new book he is currently producing. Roberts stated that he currently believes that the book will be ready for release in about two months from now.

In a recent episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, co-host Matt Hardy gave his thoughts on who he feels currently on AEW’s roster can become big stars for the company in the future. Hardy stated ”
Someone that I think is still going to be a big deal is Wardlow. That’s one person that first stands out to me. I still think both the Lucha Bros — I think both of those guys can do a lot of stuff as singles as well. You know, they’re set as a tag team, but I think both of those guys are so talented. I think they’re both talented in very different ways, too. I think they’re very different from one another. In a lot of ways, they remind me of myself and Jeff. With obviously, Penta being me, and Fenix being Jeff. Those are two guys, I think will be single stars when it’s all said and done, especially if they can stay healthy … Sammy G, once again, like Wardlow, I think he’s been able to obtain a little relevancy. But I do think he’s going to go further as well.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a now deleted post on Twitter, MJF gave a word of warning to wrestlers to stop with what he feels are dangerous feats of acts during their matches just to please fans. MJF stated “The more wrestling fans become blood thirsty for these dangerous feats in the ring. The more the wrestlers will hurt themselves trying to curry fans favor. Wrestlers, The fans don’t understand that at any given point we can be paralyzed from the neck down or even die from a maneuver as simple as a body slam. By the way fans reading this, bodyslams hurt, every move hurts.* They will keep moving the goal post of what they deem is ‘good’. So before you do something stupid. Consider this, there tweet about your ‘banger’ gonna pay for your medical bills?Do the right thing. Go in that ring with the intention of winning the match and leaving the ring the same way you entered it.“