During a recent appearance on “The Wrestling Classic” podcast, AEW wrestler Harley Cameron shared her experience working with Saraya in AEW.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On being paired with Sarya: “QTV obviously came to a close. I still, at this point, hadn’t wrestled, and I’ve been lucky enough to be given the opportunity to show my personality and my work ethic to a degree, but I just thought to myself, ‘Well, what can I do to keep the ball spinning?’ I decided to film some vignettes at home in my own time, and just pitch some things and some ideas of a character transition. I really like Saraya and Ruby. First off, they’ve been people that I looked up to and like, wanted me to get into wrestling. So I just remember the conversation happening.”
“A few people kind of had ideas thrown here and there, but we kind of all just discussed one day maybe I could join them, and they had some storyline ideas that needed someone kind of bought into that. I don’t think that I expected it to stick like this because I think the initial plan was to add me in, but I don’t know if I was going to be solidly in the group. Then, we just had fantastic chemistry together, and everyone seemed to like it, and it just stuck.”
On how much she’s learning from Saraya: “It’s just very, very cool now because. I just love Saraya so much, and she’s so wonderful. I’m learning so much working with her, you know? She’s just one of the greats. I pinch myself that I’m literally by her side because I just used to watch her and be inspired. I’m like, ‘Holy s**t, I’m next to you.’ It’s very cool.”
Wheeler Yuta aligned himself with the Blackpool Combat Club by attacking Bryan Danielson at AEW WrestleDream 2024, and he has since elaborated on his decision.
Yuta supported Danielson during his rivalry with Jon Moxley and the BCC until Danielson lost the AEW World Title to Moxley. After that, he chose to side with the BCC and assisted in the assault on Danielson.
During a recent appearance on “The Mark Hoke Show” podcast, Yuta explained the reasons behind his attack on Danielson.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On why he turned on Danielson: “I got in the ring, and I think the decision was pretty clear. Bryan’s done a lot for me in my life and my career, but so have Claudio and Jon. So when you get in the ring in that situation, and my choices were either I could cut my losses, I could stay with the two guys that have the world championship, the guys that are gonna be there, another guy who I hold a trios championship with. I could stay with them, or I could just blindly stick by Bryan. But maybe they were right because two of them are still wrestling, and one of them’s not. So it’s a difficult decision, it’s not one that I took lightly, not one that I enjoyed, but it is what it is.”
On the emotions surrounding his decision: “Yeah, of course, there’s a lot of internal conflict. As I talked about, how much I looked up to these guys, how much I respected these guys, I didn’t think it would really get to the level that we’re at right now, but there’s work that needs to be done. So if the work’s a little bit dirty, I gotta come to grips with that, I guess. But it is what it is. It’s the job that needs to be done. When you get drafted to go to war, whether you agree or not, you gotta go to war.”
Killer Kelly appeared in Luke Paron’s horror short, Arachnid, and the writer-director recently shared his experience of collaborating with her on the project.
The short film also includes Matthew Rehwoldt and Paron discussed the film’s development, his work with Kelly, and more during a recent appearance on the “Cultaholic Wrestling” podcast.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On developing the film: “The original concept was born in 2019. I was fresh out of high school, and I never went to secondary or film school or anything like that. My whole life, all I wanted to do was make films so I write constantly. I thought, what is something that I could write that’s short, to the point, and effective that’s really just out there and will push my boundaries as a creator and be something that I was proud to write. So I wrote this film in 2019, explored some options with it and then COVID hit. I was doing some pre-production, very loose development on it but never taking it seriously. I kind of put it on the back burner and then COVID hit, which kind of put my filmmaking dreams to the side and then I found my way with joining TNA.
on working with Kelly: “Through that, me and Kelly began a working relationship with each other. Arachnid has been left on the back burner, I just wrote it and started it and never really thought about it again. Killer Kelly posted this photo shoot that she had done just covered in blood and I messaged her and said, ‘Someone has got to put you in a horror movie. She said, ‘I know, it’s my dream to be in one.’ I said, ‘It’s my dream to make one.’ At the exact same time, it kind of hit us and we were like, ‘Wait a minute.’”
On re-writing the script: “I took the idea to my brother who’s a film school graduate and my cousin who’s in film school. I said, ‘Do you guys think we could do this, do you think we could pull it off?’ They said I should go for it. I had a moment when I realized it’s kind of now or never. I have a lot of freedom in my life right now. My schedule’s clear and it’s post COVID and everyone’s kinda excited. 20 minutes after me and Kelly had that interaction, I came back to her and said, ‘I’ve got an idea, let me flesh it out.’ I couldn’t find the script from 2019 so I re-wrote it based of memory and kind of fleshed it out. Thank God I did, because I eventually found the 2019 script and it was a lot more kind of immature and leaning into some of the things that the film is critiquing and is about.”
