AEW: Yuka Sakazaki vs. Mariah May for AEW Women’s Title Set for Dynamite Grand Slam 2024, Bryan Danielson on Swerve Strickland “Who Would Ever Let Go of This Guy?”, More News

Sep 19, 2024

Yuka Sakazaki vs. Mariah May for AEW Women’s Title Announced for AEW Dynamite Grand Slam 2024

AEW announced one new match for the card of their AEW Dynamite Grand Slam 2024 show, which takes place on September 25th at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York.

This new match announced was an AEW Women’s World Championship match of Yuka Sakazaki vs. “The Glamour” Mariah May (c).

Next Wednesday, 9/25
New York, NY#AEWDynamite Grand Slam
TBS, 8pm ET/7pm CT

AEW Women's World Title Match@MariahMayx vs @YukaSakazaki

The Magical Girl has returned red hot, and now AEW original Yuka Sakazaki
will challenge World Champion Mariah May in New York NEXT Wednesday! https://t.co/qyzbU0OrGt pic.twitter.com/FadcOH9Ni7
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) September 19, 2024

Current card for September 25th AEW Dynamite Grand Slam 2024:

AEW Women’s World Championship – Yuka Sakazaki vs. “The Glamour” Mariah May (c)
AEW World Championship #1 Contender match – Jon Moxley vs. Darby Allin
AEW World Tag Team Championship – Will Ospreay & Kyle Fletcher vs. The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson)
AEW World Trios Championship Open Challenge match – mystery team vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta) & PAC (c)
FTW Championship – Roderick Strong vs. HOOK (c)
Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness

Bryan Danielson Comments on “Who Would Ever Let Go of This Guy?” About Swerve Strickland

Undisputed held a recent interview with Bryan Danielson. One of the topics discussed included Danielson’s thoughts about his belief of Swerve Strickland being a perfect example of a wrestler who made the most out of a move from WWE to AEW and finding a new atmosphere where he could best thrive in for his career.

“Swerve was perfect at All In. I mean, he’s incredible. He just signed a new contract with AEW–and that is one of the benefits of having two mainstream wrestling companies in the United States. WWE didn’t see value in him, and they let him go. When Swerve came here, he said he was going to become AEW champion–and he did.
You watch him and ask, ‘Who would ever let go of this guy?’ He just wasn’t given the opportunity to be his best self. And that goes both ways–I don’t want it to sound like, ‘Oh, evil WWE, they don’t let their talent be their best selves.’ Some people will thrive here. There are people who will thrive in both places, there are people who will be underutilized. That’s the benefit of having two major companies in the United States. If someone doesn’t see value in you, you can try somewhere else.”

AEW News & Notes

AEW officials reportedly have recently held internal talks regarding potential plans to create a new stable around Deonna Purrazzo, according to PWInsider.

As noted before, Adam Cole has been out of action for AEW since this past September due to an ankle injury. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Cole was in attendance backstage at Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Former Ring of Honor owner Cary Silkin reportedly was also in attendance backstage at Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Wilkes-Barre, according to PWInsider.

AEW officials reportedly were very happy over the tickets sales for their debut Dynamite event at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, according to PWInsider. Mike Johnson reported that AEW ended up being around 500 tickets shy of selling out for their show at the venue.

AEW held two dark matches prior to the start of Wednesday’s AEW Dynanite show in Wilkes-Barre. The first was Satnam Singh defeating Colt Cabana in a singles match. The second was Nyla Rose defeating Gia Scott in a singles match.

Adam Copeland and Christian Cage’s Pure Puck company recently announced that they will be holding a pop-up event on September 25th at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York. It was announced that this upcoming event will be two hours in length and will take place prior to AEW’s Grand Slam 2024 show starting at 6PM EST.

AEW recently released a new ROH Timelines video featuring the best of Nigel McGuinness’ career in Ring of Honor.

As noted before, Kenny Omega has been out of action for AEW since this past January due to diverticulitis and underwent surgery this past May for it. Besides Omega, Kota Ibushi has also been out of action for AEW since this past January due to injuries to both of his ankles. Ibushi recently provided an update on Instagram revealing that he recently reunited with Omega for the first time since their injuries. Ibushi posted a photo and stated “World domination is just days away!! Had a golden practice after a long time. We are still far from done! Next AEW!!!“

In a recent interview with WILK News Radio’s The Morning News with Nancy and Jason, Orange Cassidy gave his thoughts about the origins of his The Conglomeration stable in AEW. Cassidy stated “Right now, I’m going to have to say, I love watching Willow Nightingale. She is a superstar and she is rising and continues to rise. She has been traveling all around the world and doing spectacular stuff. Willow is part of our group. We have a group of people that have been lost in this shuffle, this giant roster, that we really didn’t have a place and we all came together and we’re called the Conglomeration. You can look that up. I love watching Mark Briscoe, he’s part of it, and Kyle O’Reilly. You have Mark Briscoe is more brawling, hard-hitting, rough and tough. Kyle is a very technical, skilled striker. Then, I put my hands in my pockets. We do a pretty good job of filling out the spectrum of professional wrestling.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

AEW recently announced the full card for this Friday’s AEW Rampage show: