AEW: Anna Jay Update, William Regal on Original AEW Role Plans, Tony Khan on Adam Cole Return Promo

Jan 20, 2023

Anna Jay Injury Status Update

The January 13th AEW Rampage show in Inglewood, California featured a Street Fight match between TayJay (Tay Melo & Anna Jay) and Ruby Soho & Willow Nightingale. During the match, Jay was involved in a potential injury situation over a powerbomb spot performed by Nightigale off the ramp onto a table on the floor. This spot resulted in Nightingale going through the table but Jay landing head and back first onto the concrete floor.

Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that his sources stated that Jay was feeling okay backstage after the match. Jay reportedly was also stated to not have suffered an injury from the scary incident.

William Regal Comments on Original Plans for His Role in AEW “Never Transpired”

A recent episode of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip podcast featured William Regal as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Regal’s thoughts on his recent departure from AEW.

“As you know, I left one company, I’ve gone to another, it’s like a blink of an eye, I start back with WWE again and it’s like nothing has ever happened and nothing has changed in the slightest. It’s weird. Anybody that is listening that’s young, I know you don’t like listening to older people; make the most of every second you have on this earth. It really is, you get to a certain age and time goes so quickly and we waste a lot of it. Sometimes you think, ‘I’m going to make the most of it.’ Even trying to make the most of it, you end up not making as much of it as you can and it’s gone. I just had a wonderful seven or eight months with a real good group of my friends, and boom, it’s gone in the blink of an eye. I haven’t even caught up with any of the stuff we’ve done because it’s just the way it is.”

Regal also stated that AEW’s original plans for his role in the company “never transpired.”

“This will be the last thing that I’m doing. If you’re into the wrestling, it was a bit convoluted and finished off the way it finished off where I’ve been in AEW, but I’m back with the WWE by the time you hear this. I’ve had people asking me to do things. There is a lot that happened this year and a lot of things that made me go, ‘I’m quite happy being not in the limelight.’ I have been for many years. I had my time and I had a nice little gig with NXT for a long time where I just showed up occasionally, and then in the pandemic, I was used a lot more because we had to go into survival mode and there were certain characters and it changed things a little bit. I said, ‘Don’t use me as much, if you don’t mind, it should be about the talent, not about me.’ This (interview) will be the last thing I’m doing. Unless WWE asks me to do something as myself, I’m doing nothing else about anything or wrestling for at least a year. I’m happy with that. That was one of the things, in the last months of AEW, it was getting far too much about me. It should have been about the talent I was with, not about me. I’m quite happy being in the background. All it is is grief. I’ve had my run. I couldn’t have had a better last few months as far as TV and doing that, but I didn’t go there with that intention. The intention was to do something different, and it started off the way it did, but I didn’t expect it to end up being this thing that it was for the last seven months where I just became talent. I went there with a different plan because I was asked to go there to help out in a different capacity, and that never transpired. Okay, I’m done.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Tony Khan Comments on Adam Cole’s AEW Return Promo

A recent episode of the In The Kliq podcast featured AEW CEO Tony Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts on Adam Cole’s AEW return promo during the January 11th AEW Dynamite show.

“Well, I don’t think he ever [ruled out returning to the ring]. Certainly, it was a very challenging recovery, and they were points where, I’m sure, he had to question if he was going to make it back or, you know, what he was putting himself through because, like he said, he didn’t leave the house to do anything but brain therapy. He wanted it so bad. He wants so bad to come back to AEW, to get back in the ring and wrestle for the fans on Wednesdays on TBS, and Fridays on TNT. That’s his dream. For us, it’s a dream come true having Adam Cole be a part of the AEW roster. It’s very exciting that he’s getting closer and closer to making a comeback. It’s a really inspirational story, and people don’t even know the half of it yet. I’m excited for people to find out more about what Adam Cole has been through.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com