AEW: Owen Hart Cup 2024 Finals Reportedly Set for This July, Mercedes Mone on Being “Greatest Women’s Wrestler of All-Time”, Darby Allin on Glass Breaking Spot at Revolution 2024

AEW Reportedly Holding 2024 Owen Hart Cup Tournament Finals This July in Calgary

The Calgary Sun reported that AEW will be holding the Finals of this year’s Men’s and Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournaments on July 10th in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

It was announced that the Finals of this year’s tournaments will be taking place at the Scotiabank Saddledome for AEW’s return to the city this summer.

It was reported that Dr. Martha Hart will be at this upcoming show to present the tournament winners with the Owen Hart Foundation Cup.

In the article, Hart gave her thoughts about her continued trust and work with AEW to highlight, promote, and honor the wrestling legacy of her late husband Owen.

“To highlight, promote, and honour Owen’s wrestling legacy. We are now working together to ensure that legacy continues.”

No other details were given regarding this year’s upcoming tournaments.

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Mercedes Mone Comments on Being Ready to Show Why She Is “Greatest Women’s Wrestler of All-Time”

The Ringer held a recent interview with Mercedes Mone. One of the topics discussed included Mone’s thoughts about her upcoming AEW debut match against Willow Nightingale and her being ready to show why she is the “greatest women’s wrestler of all-time.”

“They haven’t really got to see the CEO. They know who Sasha Banks is, but the CEO, Mercedes Moné, [is] something they’ve never seen before, and I’m ready to show them. I’m the greatest women’s wrestler of all time, 100 percen.

I don’t want to put pressure on myself, because I’ve been doing this for 14 years. I have more excitement than pressure, but I am really nervous as well, just because it’s been a year since I performed, but being in the ring with someone like Willow Nightingale, I know it’s going to be absolutely everything I’ve ever dreamed of. We’re going to go out there and steal the show.”

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Darby Allin Comments on Glass Breaking Spot at AEW Revolution 2024

Fightful held a recent interview with Darby Allin. One of the topics discussed included Allin’s thoughts about the glass breaking spot during Sting’s retirement match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship at this past March’s AEW Revolution event.

“The glass in Sting’s last match. When I jumped off the ladder and went through the glass. The referee came up to me, ‘Darby, you good?’ ‘Yeah, that was awesome.’ They’re like, ‘Shit, you’re not good. You have a hole in your side.’ ‘What?’ [Shows off scar.] I felt fine. He was like, ‘No, you have a hole in your side.’ I told him, ‘I literally have one more spot in this match.’ We also had a plan B. I told everybody in the match, ‘There is a plan B if, for whatever reason, I cannot finish this match because of this stunt. We have a plan B for the finish.’ Besides the hole in my side. I felt fine. I didn’t know there was a hole in my side.”

Allin also gave his thoughts about the backup plan for the finish to the match being Sting winning the match by himself.

“Literally just Sting winning the match by himself. I believe it was the TK Driver set up, that’s when I originally popped up and pushed off one of the Bucks through the table. Literally it was, slip the TK Driver, push the Buck into the other the Bucks, he flies through the table, sell back, death drop, kick out, scorpion. It’s literally the same thing minus Darby Allin popping up from the dead.”

Allin also gave his thoughts about his reason for doing the spot was due to him wanting to do something to take him out of the match so that Sting could have a two-on-one battle moment during the match.

“I just felt like I needed to do something. Everybody has seen Darby go through so much crazy shit. The whole premise of the match was Sting fighting this two on one battle. You get the iconic Sting no-sell and him fighting from underneath. I was like, ‘I need to do something that is reasonable as to why Darby Allin can’t be in this match right now’ because everybody has seen me do so much. That’s the only reason I was like, ‘I need to do this. I need to do this.’ It worked out. At the end of the match, Sting came up to me and said, ‘That’s easily in my top three favorite matches of whole career.’ That’s all I could ask, to make sure that man’s career ended with the respect it deserved and he was happy about his life’s work coming to an end. It was an amazing night.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com