AEW: Renee Paquette Dealing with Broken Foot Injury, Darby Allin on His Physical Recovery Process After His Wrestling Matches, More News

Nov 8, 2024

Renee Paquette Dealing with Broken Foot Injury

Renee Paquette revealed on Instagram that she recently suffered a broken foot injury and was on crutches backstage during this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Despite her injury, Paquette worked at the show without the assistance of crutches during her backstage interview segments.

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Darby Allin Comments on His Physical Recovery Process After His Wrestling Matches

A recent episode of AEW’s Meal And A Match YouTube series featured Darby Allin as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Allin’s thoughts about having a room dedicated in his house just for his recovery process after his wrestling matches.

“It’s so insane, my whole downstairs is like a laboratory. I’m friends with DDP and he’s got all of this state of the art physical recovery stuff at his house. I’ll go up and try it out and now I’ve got two ice baths at my house. I got saunas, breathing machines, I got everything because I want to be crazy for as long as possible. But, the mind is also a big thing, so I started TMmeditation. It’s like a big thing where it kind of goes to the source of thought, where it actually helps me get more creative. You wake up in the morning and it’s like, ‘I’ve got to do this, I got to do that’, and it just really puts you at balance if you’re stressing. You can handle a lot.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

AEW News & Notes

This past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Manchester, New Hampshire featured MJF making a call to a mysterious person to help deliver a message. This mystery person later approached Don Callis and gave MJF’s message to him over MJF asking for his Don Callis Family to take out Adam Cole. Indie wrestler Duke Davis recently revealed on Twitter that he was the identity of the mysterious messenger.

In a recent interview with Uproxx, Mercedes Mone gave her thoughts about Mariah May’s rise as a star in AEW. Mone stated “I am super proud to watch from afar. She came in as a super fan, just loving wrestling, loved it so much that she moved from England to Japan, trained out in Stardom just to hone her craft, and now she’s here. She is our women’s world champion, beating Toni Storm in one of the best storylines in women’s history. So to see her rise this fast and to see how good she is in the ring, it’s so incredible. Like I said, we have the best women’s division in the game right now. And I’m definitely looking at the title that she has around her waist.“

In a separate interview with the Battleground Podcast, Mercedes Mone gave her thoughts about the potential of her adding more members to her group in AEW. Mone stated “There’s always an opportunity to make Mone, and ever since I came to AEW, money has just gone up. I know there is a list of women who are just dying to even be around my presence. I’m in my locker room right now, and I have a security guard out there, and there is a line. I have to be like, ‘Excuse me, wait, I have to talk to you guys first.’ Yes, there’s always an opportunity to make money. But I’m very busy, so just wait. I gotta watch you do some stuff first. I gotta see you, I gotta see what you got.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the CHGO Blackhawks podcast, Kyle Fletcher gave his thoughts about who his influences were growing up watching wrestling and his belief of Kenny Omega might be the greatest in-ring performer of all-time. Fletcher stated “Kenny Omega. He is someone that, he might be, in my books, the greatest in-ring performer of all-time. I still, to this day, will go back and watch his Tokyo Dome main event with Tanahashi. I’ll go back and watch his matches with (Kazuchika) Okada, his matches with (Tomohiro) Ishii. I’m in awe, and every single time, I’m like, ‘Ah man.’ I’m gobsmacked. Kenny, to this day, is the one I can go back and watch and always enjoy.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast featuring Big Bill as the guest, host Chris Jericho revealed that the origin of Big Bill’s ring name was from an idea by AEW CEO Tony Khan had for his plans to bring Bill into the company. Jericho stated “I remember Tony talking about you and he was like, ‘I’m thinking about bringing him in and I want to call Big Bill. That’s the name Big Bill.’ Alright, Big Bill it is.” Bill responded stating that he intially did not like his new ring name until he found out that it was Khan’s idea. Bill stated “My first week here, MJF told me, and a few people told me, ‘What do you think of the name Big Bill?’ At first I was like, ‘I really don’t like that.’ They were like, ‘It was Tony’s idea and Tony loves it.’ I said, ‘It’s fantastic.’” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Fightful, former WWE and current MLW talent Paul London gave his thoughts about how he was originally set to do a show for Ring Of Honor in 2020 before the COVID pandemic hit and having a lot of friends who worked in AEW at the time. London stated “Well, I took some time off here in the pandemic. I was supposed to work the Ring of Honor show in Vegas and that got canceled on or around Valentine’s Day. I could be off a month. It could be March 14th, but I want to say it was around February. It was March 14th. So I was geared up to go do that and that got canceled. So then the whole pandemic thing happened and I was living, at the time, I was in Sherman Oaks at the time, but I was really close to all these all this looting and all it was just chaos, right? So my mind was everywhere, but pro wrestling. Then I moved to the hood, because I wanted to get more street and I started working a shoot job and it was fun for a while, but then I started to see I think AEW came up around the time and I have a lot of friends there.” London also gave his thoughts about how he had contacted Christopher Daniels for a potential job in AEW. London stated “It got to the point where I actually reached out to Daniels and was like, ‘Hey, I’ve seen the show. I’d love to help any way I can.’ I kind of got like a revolving door answer. It was like, ‘Oh, well, yeah, no, see you later.’ That was fine. I get it. I guess they have all the help they need.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

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

Three-way Tag Team match – Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett) vs. Dark Order (John Silver & Alex Reynolds) vs. The Infantry (Carlie Bravo & Capt. Shawn Dean)
Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) vs. JD Drake & BEEF
Hikaru Shida vs. Viva Van
Lio Rush vs. Komander