AEW: Diamante Reportedly Signed Full-Time Deal, Montreal Debut Planned for This December, More News

Diamante Reportedly Recently Signed Full-Time Deal with AEW

Diamante reportedly recently signed a full-time contract with AEW, according to Fightful Select.

It was reported that their sources stated Diamante had been working under a “tier zero” type contract with AEW prior to her deal recently being bumped up to a full-time type contract. It was reported that Diamante’s profile was also recently added to AEW’s official roster page as part of her full-time signing.

Prior to her full-time contract signing, Diamante has made regular appearances for both AEW and Ring of Honor since making her official AEW debut in January of 2020.

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AEW Reportedly Planning to Hold Montreal Debut Shows This December

AEW reportedly is currently planning to hold a new set of AEW television shows and a new ROH TV show this December in Montreal, Canada for their official debut in the city, according to Pat Laprade.

Laprade reported that his sources stated that AEW is currently planning to hold this upcoming new set of shows on Tuesday, December 5th and Wednesday, December 6th at the Bell Centre.

Laprade reported that Tuesday’s tapings would be for AEW Collision and ROH TV while Wednesday’s tapings would be for AEW Dynamite and Rampage.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

I spoke to multiple sources and AEW would make its long awaited Montreal debut on December 5 and December 6 at the Bell Center.

Wednesday will be Dynamite and Rampage, and the Tuesday show should be Collision and ROH. AEW is currently doing a Canadian tour. pic.twitter.com/c5TgYX9084

— Pat Laprade (@PatLaprade) July 6, 2023

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AEW News & Notes

Wednesady’s AEW Dynamite show in Edmonton, Canada featured an AEW debut vignette for Nick Wayne that was narrated by Darby Allin. Later in the show, it was announced that Wayne will be making his official in-ring AEW debut in a singles match against Swerve Strickland at next Wednesday’s Dynamite show in Saskatoon, Canada.

PWInsider reported that AEW held a dark match of Nyla Rose vs. Liza Hall prior to the start of Wednesday’s Dynamite show in Edmonton.

AEW announced that they have recently signed a new streaming deal with VIX to air their weekly Dynamite shows on the service for their Latin America and Caribbean markets.

AEW Games recently released a new gameplay trailer for their recently released AEW Fight Forever video game focusing on the upcoming Stadium Stampede downloadable update for the game.

In a recent interview with the Cultaholic Wrestling podcast, AEW Fight Forever’s Lead Narrative Designer Justin Leeper gave his thoughts on if there are currently any plans to expand the game’s Road To Elite mode with a future update. Leeper stated “No, we haven’t really gone into that but truth told, I’m in a different role at a different company right now. I would definitely be willing to investigate how we can expand on Road To Elite because again, it’s not a wide mode but it’s a tall mode and if we could widen it a little bit, that’d be great. If we could find some way to do DLC, that would be really neat. Even [to] get some of the characters involved to do their own bespoke, I think that would be really neat but again I’m not in the know on that stuff.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Tokyo Sports, Jon Moxley gave his thoughts on his interest in a potential match with SANADA for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship in the future. Moxley stated “I’ve been WWE World Heavyweight Champion and AEW World Champion, but I’m not IWGP World Heavyweight Champion yet… If I were to fight SANADA, I’d have an image of myself as the IWGP World Champion, so I think it would be interesting.” (English translation via PostWrestling.com)

Following Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Edmonton, Kenny Omega gave a post-show speech to the crowd teasing the identity of the mystery fifth member of The Elite’s team for their upcoming Blood & Guts match. Omega stated “Now you guys listen to this. There was a week when my whereabouts were unknown. I didn’t stay home. I didn’t go to Canada. I went to recruit an old friend, somebody who’s very near and dear to my heart. I’ve got no doubt in my mind that as much as he cares about me, he cares about the men in this ring, he cares about this promotion, he cares about changing the face of professional wrestling. At Blood and Guts in two weeks, there is no way we lose.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com, @DrainBamager)

AEW recently announced one updated match for the card of their AEW Dynamite Blood & Guts 2023 special on July 19th at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts:

• Blood & Guts match – Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley, Wheeler Yuta, Claudio Castagnoli, Konosuke Takeshita, & mystery partner) vs. The Elite (Kenny Omega, Hangman Adam Page, The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), & mystery partner)