AEW: Nigel on Wanting to Wrestle One More Match, Mariah May on Being Signed to AEW When All In 2023 Took Place, Jeff Jarrett on Danielson vs. Strickland Match at All In 2024

Nigel McGuinness Comments on Wanting to Wrestle One More Match Following AEW All In 2024

As noted before, this past August’s AEW All In 2024 event at Wembley Stadium in London, England featured AEW commentator Nigel McGuinness making his surprise in-ring return. McGuinness competed in the Casino Gauntlet match on the show and in his first match since 2011.

Uproxx held a recent interview with McGuinness. One of the topics discussed included McGuinness’ thoughts about his interest in wanting to wrestle one more match for his wrestling career and Bryan Danielson being his top choice for an opponent.

“Bryan’s certainly head of line because of our history, there’s so much emotion tied up in a match with him. Zack Sabre Jr. would be a dream match. Adam Copeland. There are so many great talents, Lee Moriarty has been gracious enough to get in the ring with me before the shows at Collision, and that’s helped me a great deal.”

McGuinness also gave his thoughts about the reception he received from his hometown crowd for his in-ring return being something that he will cherish for the rest of his life.

“It gave me an incredible sense of, I wouldn’t say closure because that makes it sound like the last thing for me. But it certainly has given me peace and a sense of surreal reality that this was able to happen. I had a lot of blessings in my life and a lot of obstacles as well. And to be as lucky as I was to have that opportunity — thanks to Tony Khan — it meant so much.”

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Mariah May Comments on Her Signing with AEW

A recent episode of Barstool’s Mostly Sports With Mark Titus and Brandon Walker podcast featured Mariah May as the guest. One of the topics discussed included May’s thoughts about her getting to compete at Wembley Stadium for AEW’s All In 2024 event and her being signed to the company when last year’s All In event took place.

“It wasn’t really a dream come true because I never thought it would happen. There wasn’t wrestling in Wembley for so long until AEW brought it back. Once they brought it back, when they had their first show in Wembley, I was actually in Japan wrestling, but I was already signed to AEW. So I was like, ‘I need to go, even if I’m not on the show, I just want to go and be around it.’ Then I won the world championship. But it’s an amazing place, yeah.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Jeff Jarrett Comments on Bryan Danielson vs. Swerve Strickland Match at AEW All In 2024

A recent episode of the My World with Jeff Jarrett podcast featured co-host Jeff Jarrett’s thoughts about Bryan Danielson’s victory over Swerve Strickland for the AEW World Championship at All In 2024.

“I don’t know even know where to start. Bryan, not the biggest guy, not the strongest guy, not the greatest talker, just everything that we want to put in buckets as a professional wrestler. When you put all the ingredients together and you have to roll it out, Bryan’s the best. His timing is the best. Kurt Angle had a uniqueness for false finishes. Shawn Michaels had a uniqueness for weaving stories and big bumps and creating false finishes. Bryan, the ins and the outs and his ability to take the viewer or the consumer or the fan in the audience on the roller coaster ride of their lives where you think that the match is over ten minutes or fifteen minutes before it ever ends. When you get into that, I’ll call it match exhaustion. You are taken along on a ride with the helicopter above Wembley and all the pyro and the wife and kids and the blood and the drama and his opponent. As a professional wrestling promoter, wrestler, and first and foremost fan, you walk away from that and put your head on a pillow and get back on the big bird to go back home the next day. You really say, that’s what our business is all about when you put it all in a nutshell. Whether you’re talking to a TV executive or a silly Alabama fan talking Alabama/Tennessee, no matter who you’re talking to, if you sit them down and let them watch that from entrance to signing off the air with Excalibur’s call, you’re almost in a way proud to be a wrestling fan because that’s the essence of what we do.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com