AEW: Skye Blue on Signing with AEW, Colt Cabana AEW Update, More News

Skye Blue Comments on When She First Signed with AEW & Getting the #AllElite Graphic Treatment

A recent episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast featured Skye Blue as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Blue revealing that she had been under an agreement with AEW since their All Out 2021 event and her thoughts on getting the #AllElite graphic treatment this past April.

“I cried a lot (when I got the All Elite graphic), because I remember my first extra work was the pandemic days in Jacksonville and I remember being terrified. I remember being an extra in that crowd shaking and I was actually — my first day of extra work was Queen Aminata’s first day of extra work too (which) was really freaking awesome. But I remember sitting there and we’re like, ‘Crap, that’s gonna be us. We’re sitting in the crowd. We’re gonna have to go get in that ring’ and I remember they told me my first match was against Britt (Baker). I was like, oh! It’s just Britt Baker and then this is Dustin Rhodes. I wasn’t back until the All Out that I got signed and then to see it go from I was literally — I remember cheering in the crowd to like 2 AM or whatever it was to getting the graphic and being able to — I FaceTimed my mom, because C.D. (Christopher Daniels) had told me, he’s like, ‘Hey, yeah, they wanna put the graphic out today.’ I just texted her like, ‘Hey, just be prepared for something’ and she’s like, ‘What the hell does that mean?’ She’s spamming my phone while I was in the makeup chair so I FaceTimed her and I just sent her the picture of the graphic because Twitter put it out first and she was crying, screaming on the phone and it made me cry. I’m sitting in the makeup chair, I’m trying not to cry and I put makeup on my face, I’m gonna ruin it. Because I never thought I was gonna make it to that point because I wanted to do this for so long and AEW has been the dream company since I was running around on the indies so it was the fact that he was like, ‘Yeah, it’s for real,’ I was like, oh, it’s actually real. Like what?”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Colt Cabana Comments on His Current Status in AEW

Colt Cabana has been noticeably absent from AEW programming since this past November. Cabana has mostly worked for Ring of Honor since Tony Khan’s purchase of the company in March of 2022 and last wrestled for the promotion this past April.

A recent episode of the Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw podcast featured Cabana as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Cabana providing an update on his current status in AEW.

“I’m contracted with AEW as a producer and wrestler so, it’s unbelievable for me that that’s a reality right now at my age. I love it.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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AEW News & Notes

During Wednesday’s Upfronts presentation in New York City, New York, Warner Bros Discovery announced that the first season of AEW’s All Access reality television series will be add to their Max streaming service starting on June 9th.

As noted before, AEW has sold around 62,000 tickets for their upcoming All In event this August at Wembley Stadium in London, England. WrestleTix reported that AEW had distributed around 64,154 tickets for their event with around 61,585 paid and the rest as comp tickets as of this past Tuesday. Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston reported that his sources stated that AEW officials were holding back around 15,000 additional tickets for the event for various reasons.

As noted before, Warner Brothers Discovery’s Upfronts presentation earlier today featured the official announcement of a new AEW weekly television series called AEW Collision. Among those listed in the press release and featured on Collision’s debut post was Andrade El Idolo. Andrade recently reflected on Twitter claiming that he was not told beforehand that he would be featured for the debut announcement of Collision. Andrade stated “Órale!! what news, I had no idea!!!“

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Austin, Texas featured Karen Jarrett making her official debut in the company. Jarrett made her surprise debut during a brawl segment between FTR and Jeff Jarrett, Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, & Satnam Singh. As FTR were preparing to attack Jeff in the ring, Karen showed up and proceeded to low blow Cash Wheeler resulting in Jeff hitting The Stroke onto Dax Harwood.

Prior to the start of Wednesday’s Dynamite show, AEW held a set of dark matches featuring Abadon making her return to the company. Abadon competed in a Women’s Trios dark match with Skye Blue & Willow Nightingale against Emi Sakura, Marina Shafir & Nyla Rose. This was Abadon’s first appearance in AEW since this past November and also her first match in AEW and the indies since this past November as well due to a broken collarbone injury.

The Cauliflower Alley Club announced that CM Punk will be the recipient of this year’s Iron Mike Mazurki Award at their awards ceremony this August in Las Vegas, Nevada. This award is given to those “who have made exceptional contributions to professional wrestling and have exhibited outstanding dedication to the sport both inside and outside the ring.”

In a recent video post on Instagram, CM Punk gave his thoughts about the tribalism in wrestling and the comments and opinions made by others about himself and others in recent months. Punk stated “The parasocial relationship a lot of fringe wrestling fans have with certain people is really unhealthy. I get the tribalism, it’s fun to root for your team, but picking sides seems a little silly. You don’t know me, you don’t know anybody else. So, go touch grass.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the Midday with Chad Hastings and Zay Collier podcast, AEW CEO Tony Khan gave his thoughts about the potential for musician Rick Ross to make a return appearance in AEW. Khan stated “Rick Ross is a tremendous talent. I’m very excited that Rick Ross has taken an interest in AEW. He’s a great person. He’s really been kind to me, personally, and he’s been a great friend to AEW. We love when he comes to the show and gets involved. You never know when the biggest boss Rick Ross is going to show up in AEW. It could happen at any time. That’s one of the great things about the show that we have going for us. That’s one of the reasons why I love the show every week, people never know what to expect, and you never know who is going to show up. Rick Ross is one of our best cameos of all-time. I think he could do more than a cameo, I think he could certainly be involved more often. I would love for that to happen.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)