AEW: Daniel Garcia Signing New AEW Contract Update, Stephanie Vaquer Responds to Mercedes Mone’s Claims of Playing Big Role in Her WWE Signing, More News

Update on Daniel Garcia’s New AEW Contract Signing – AEW’s Offer Reportedly was Significantly Higher than WWE’s Offer

As noted before, Daniel Garcia made his surprise return to AEW at this past Tuesday’s AEW Dynamite Title Tuesday 2024 show in Spokane, Washington and announced that he had recently signed a new contract with the company.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources within WWE stated that WWE officials had expected over a month ago that Garcia would stay in AEW. Those spoken to reportedly stated that the reason was due to AEW’s offer for Garcia was significantly higher than what WWE’s had offered for a potential deal.

---

Stephanie Vaquer Responds to Mercedes Mone’s Comments Over Her Match with Vaquer Playing Big Role in Vaquer’s WWE Signing

A recent issue of the Mone Mag fan newsletter featured Mercedes Mone giving her thoughts about her belief that she played a big part in Stephanie Vaquer signing with WWE following their match at this past June’s AEW Forbidden Door 2024 event.

“Another time was with Stephanie Vaquer for AEW’s Forbidden Door. Stephanie flew in that day and got to the building maybe an hour before the doors opened. We just talked about the match a little where she speaks a whole different language (Spanish). That was so hard. I’m like, my God, we don’t get time to walk over our moves, we speak two different languages, and we’re both tired, jet lagged, and hungry, too. Yet, that also turned out to be such a great match. She was signed by the WWE days later. I’d like to think our match had a say in that!”

Vaquer recently responded on Instagram about Mone’s comments regarding her signing with WWE following their match.

“Before that match I had 4 days of just sleeping on planes and weeks of working daily, also many hours without eating, a great challenge with a great wrestler, she was really nice. When you work hard for a long time it always brings rewards.”

Stephanie Vaquer responds to Mercedes Mone's comments about their match at Forbidden Door. pic.twitter.com/qDyDtKy7IG

— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) October 11, 2024

---

AEW News & Notes

AEW reportedly has sold and distributed around 7,164 tickets for Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream 2024 event at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington as of Thursday, according to WrestleTix.

AEW recently released a new AEW Timelines video focusing on Darby Allin and Brody King’s “history of violence” with each other in the company.

In a recent Q&A article, Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that AEW officials never had any real serious plans to potentially debut a new Women’s Tag Team Championship in the company. Sapp reported that the idea has been pitched several times in the company. Sapp also reported that the closest AEW officials came to considering the idea was in 2020 during their AEW Women’s tag team tournament at the time.

As noted before, Miro requested his release from AEW this past September. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that he have not heard of anything new regarding the status of Miro’s release request from their sources. Sapp reported that Miro’s contract with AEW is currently set to expire in Spring of 2026 but AEW officials would have the option to add time to it to make up for missed injury time.

As noted before, MJF has been on a break from AEW since this past September’s All Out 2024 event due to a filming project reason. This film was later revealed to be for the upcoming new film Happy Gilmore 2, the sequel to the classic comedy film Happy Gilmore. A fan video of a scene that was filmed involving MJF was recently leaked online.

Emi Sakura recently announced on Twitter that she had to cancel her flight following this past Tuesday’s AEW Dynamite Title Tuesday 2024 show due to Hurricane Milton and decided to spend the day off watching a movie featuring a “Disney Princess” that she revealed was dark comedy horror film The Substance. Sakura stated “My flight was cancelled due to the hurricane, so I’m spending my day off in Spokane. I wanted to see a movie with Disney princesses, so I went to see The Substance with Demi Moore. It was so different from what I expected, I was shocked and aged 。50 years. I could only get five kernels of popcorn down my throat. It was a nightmare.🥲“

In a recent interview with Rock 99.9’s The Daly Migs Show, Bryan Danielson gave his thoughts about how his children have been doing in school for this current school year. Danielson stated “We had a parent-teacher conference at my daughter’s school and it was like, ‘Your daughter is the best. She’s the best student. She’s so helpful.’ Later that night, I get an email from where our son was going to school telling us he had been kicked out of school for ‘biting two teachers and gouging one in the eye.’ [laughs]. Of course they’re like, ‘Of course, the wrestler’s son is gouging somebody in the eye.’ Some of the things I’ve done…..[laughs]. We’re like, ‘No we don’t let him watch wrestling. That’s not me in real life.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)