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A WWE star is jealous of AEW after All Out, we’ve got the real reason Bryan Danielson
chose AEW over WWE, and more from Adam Cole and Ruby Soho as they’re also All Elite.
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Last night’s AEW All Out didn’t just see The Lucha Bros win the AEW Tag Team Championships
in one of the most insane cage matches ever and possible match of the year contender,
it didn’t just feature CM Punk’s first wrestling match in seven years, it didn’t
just see Minoru Freakin’ Suzuki come out and face Jon Moxley, it also featured the
AEW debuts of Ruby Soho, Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole Bay Bay.
AEW, please, we can only have so many headlines from one show.
It was a night that prompted Chris Jericho - who beat MJF to make sure he still wrestles
in the company - to tweet: “tonight the game changed”.
But Jericho wasn’t the only person tweeting about the show, as WWE’s Cedric Alexander
was also watching and had some thoughts of his own for the ol’ Twitter Machine.
After the show had gone off the air, Alexander tweeted: “well damn”, “I’m so jealous
of Big Swole right now”.
Cedric Alexander to AEW confirmed.
For those not in the know or who aren’t checking Wikipedia on a daily basis, Big Swole
is the IRL wife of Cedric Alexander, who featured in the Casino Women’s Battle Royale with
the debuting Soho.
Alexander wasn’t the only person from WWE tweeting about AEW All Out - more on that
in a bit - but he is the only one who noted that he was jealous of the talent there.
And when you hear from the new signees and how they talk about what it was like backstage
at AEW, it’s hardly surprising.
But I’m sure Cedric is having a grand ol’ time in WWE.
Let me just check Cagematch.net - oh no his last win was back in May.
And he’s been losing a lot to Jaxson Ryker on Main Event.
Yeesh.
But yeah, he wasn’t the only WWE star tweeting about the show - mostly prompted by the debut
of Ruby Soho who won the Casino Battle Royale.
Liv Morgan tweeted: “Tears!
You are a star RubyRue”, “I’m so proud of you”.
Which sounds like a remix to the Scooby Doo theme.
Tegan Nox tweeted: “Chant her freaking name”, which Dakota Kai seemingly did via text to
speech, while Mia Yim simply just wrote the name “Ruby”.
And Kevin Owens tweeted: “it’s awesome when good things happen to good people but
it’s even better when good things happen to great people.”
Liv Morgan, Tegan Nox, Dakota Kai, Mia Yim and Kevin Owens to AEW confirmed.
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The post-All Out media scrum saw all of the new debuts make their presence in All Elite
Wrestling known, and here’s what Ruby Soho had to say about her debut:
Ruby Soho was released by WWE back in June as part of their “budget cuts”, along
with Lana, Braun Strowman, Buddy Murphy and Aleister Black - who is now in AEW as Malakai
Black.
But that’s a different story for Bryan Danielson, the former Daniel Bryan in WWE.
It was reported back in May that following his final WWE match against Roman Reigns on
SmackDown - where the stipulation was a loser leaves town - Bryan lost and actually left
town.
It wasn’t just a gimmick, Bryan’s contract had expired, and he was now a free agent.
Although many in the company felt that he would re-sign - with reports at the time saying
Bryan wanted to do work with and for WWE - it was then reported by Bodyslam that Danielson
had instead chosen to sign for All Elite Wrestling.
Several outlets noted he was set to debut at the New York show in a couple of weeks,
but potential COVID restrictions on Grand Slam forced AEW to pull plans forward and
have him debut at All Out instead.
But why did Danielson choose All Elite Wrestling over WWE?
Here’s what he had to say: Despite what he just said there, however,
his reasons for joining AEW were similar to CM Punk’s - in that it came from watching
the Brodie Lee tribute show in December.
As for whether we would see his wife Brie Bella join AEW, Bryan noted that she is happy
in WWE and has a lot of business connections.
So…
Brie Bella to AEW confirmed.
Might as well at this point.
But Bryan wasn’t the only former WWE wrestler whose contract had expired, and then showed
up at AEW All Out…
Bay Bay.
One of the more surprising stories of 2021 is that WWE accidentally let Adam Cole’s
contract expire in July - because they were under the impression he was signed until the
end of the year.
This slip up in fact led to the firing of Canyon Ceman, thought to be the one responsible
for the error.
But as it turns out, WWE weren’t alone in thinking Cole’s contract expired in December
- because Adam Cole thought it did too.
That extension ended at NXT TakeOver 36 where Cole lost to O’Reilly in a two-out-of-three
falls match.
It had been reported that WWE were making serious offers for Cole to stay - even meeting
with Vince McMahon who told him both Raw and SmackDown creative teams were putting together
pitches for his main roster debut.
While it may seem unsurprising that Cole would choose to sign with AEW - after all his girlfriend
Britt Baker DMD works there and he is very friendly with The Elite following their Bullet
Club days - Cole didn’t have a bad word to say about his
time in WWE.
Oli Davis may not have captured the Jam That Jampionship from Pete Quinnell at last night’s
All Out reactions - tying with a score of 5-all meaning Pete retained on Jampion’s
advantage.
But they both had a nice time when both Adam Cole
and
Bryan Danielson debuted: And although Adam Blampied asked me to play
that second clip five times in a row in the office and requested it be set as my text
tone, Oli’s reactions to Cole and Danielson may have been topped by CM Punk’s:
CM Punk’s boner to AEW confirmed.