AEW: Brock Anderson Confirms Release, CJ Perry on Miro Pushed for Her Debut at AEW All In, Battle of the Belts VIII Ratings

Oct 24, 2023

Brock Anderson Confirms Departure from AEW

As noted before, Brock Anderson’s contract with AEW expired this past week and has departed from the company.

Brock Anderson recently confirmed on Twitter that his contract with AEW had recently expired and he is currently a free agent.

To those that’ve supported me and helped me THANK YOU. To my detractors, that’s your right to an opinion. All I can do, to quote @dustinrhodes is, “Keep Steppin”. On to the next chapter…#prowrestling pic.twitter.com/pfnchfQCbq
— Brock Anderson (@BAndersonAEW) October 23, 2023

CJ Perry Comments on Miro Pushed for Her AEW to Take Place at AEW All In

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured CJ Perry as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Perry’s thoughts about making her official debut for AEW at this past September’s All Out 2023 event in Chicago.

“I was really excited. I was so excited to return to wrestling, especially in Chicago. I love Chicago. I actually debuted in WWE in Chicago. My first live promo was in Chicago. CM Punk had just left, so everyone’s like, ‘You gonna be okay? There’s gonna be CM Punk chants.’ I feel like I held my own, with Miro. Then the first time the ‘We want Lana’ chants happened was in Chicago, and Miro came out. At the time, he was Rusev, he came out with a really bad Russian lawyer, and it was on my birthday, and they started chanting, ‘We want Lana.’ So that was cool. My official babyface turn happened there in WWE, so it was really cool to be able to have that special moment with AEW of debuting there. Because I love Chicago, and the fans have always rooted for me so much. So it’s really awesome to be able have that special connection now with AEW as well.”

Perry also gave her thoughts about how Miro has pushed for her official debut to take place at AEW’s All In event this past August at Wembley Stadium but AEW CEO Tony Khan had different plans in mind.

“Miro was pushing, a lot of this was his idea, a lot of the story. He wanted it to be in London, but Tony really had a vision for it to happen in Chicago, and he’s from Chicago and loves Chicago and I love Chicago. So here we go.”

Perry also gave her thoughts about if she wanted to join AEW after Miro first joined the company and taking a break from wrestling after her WWE release.

“Well, when Miro first joined AEW, I was still in WWE. So that was in 2020, he started there in September, I think. So I was in WWE still, and I had a very lucrative contract. I was on TV every week, so we both thought it made sense for me to stay. Then I finished my time a year. Miro wanted me to come over to AEW, and he was plugging me in the story, and that’s how I got the name ‘Hot and Flexible.’ So I needed a little bit of a break. At the beginning, I wanted to be gone for a little bit, and I wanted to do things…I didn’t want to jump right back on the road. So I took about a year, and it was just trying to figure out the time. Tony Khan had great things going on with his show, and I had things going on, Miro had things. It’s all about timing.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com