AEW President Tony Khan took to Twitter to express his appreciation for the AEW roster and crew, commending their flexibility in handling last-minute changes.
One such change occurred when Britt Baker was pulled from last night’s episode of AEW Dynamite: Title Tuesday due to illness, leading to a modification in the women’s title eliminator match.
Khan wrote, “Thank you all who watched Tuesday Night #AEWDynamite tonight! I’m proud of Team AEW pulling together despite numerous challenges and changes out of our control! We appreciate you all who watched tonight.”
Thank you all who watched Tuesday Night #AEWDynamite tonight!
I'm proud of Team AEW pulling together despite numerous challenges and changes out of our control!
We appreciate you all who watched tonight +
it's on again SOON
9pm PT/10pm MT/11pm CT/12am ET
NEXT on @TBSNetwork West— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) October 9, 2024
In a recent appearance on the “Talk is Jericho” podcast, Nigel McGuiness revealed that he was ready to face Bryan Danielson at AEW All In 2023, but The American Dragon sustained an injury.
Danielson fractured his arm during a tag team bout on Dynamite several months prior to AEW All In 2023. McGuiness resumed wrestling a year later when he participated in the Casino Gauntlet match at All In 2024.
When asked if he saw himself returning to the ring, McGuiness said,
“No, not in this life. I don’t think he [Tony Khan] was either, because as much of a wrestling fan as he is, you have to be an obsessed Nigel McGuinness fan to know my backstory and to understand why I wasn’t wrestling. I think Tony probably believed what a lot of other people believed, that it was perhaps a hepatitis issue or perhaps it was an injury that stopped me. The actual truth was that the only thing stopping me wrestling was me. It was only Wembley when that came around, I was on his jet. He said, ‘Keep this to yourself,’ as we were taking off, ‘We’re gonna be running Wembley.’ I sort of said tongue and cheek to him, ‘You know what, maybe if I set out, I could dust off the old boots.’ There was a spark in his eye and he said, ‘Can you wrestle, are you okay to wrestle?’ I said, ‘Yeah, sure, absolutely.’ I didn’t really know at that point whether I was mentally and physically [ready], because you take that long off.’ The first Wembley, I was ready to go. I was ready to go and in ring shape for the first Wembley, but Bryan broke his arm in a match with Okada. That didn’t work, there was ideas of maybe I could be in this match or that match, but I didn’t want to be an add-on, I wanted it to really mean something. Then at Wembley this year, obviously my intention was Bryan again, but because they wanted to go in the direction of The Owen, that didn’t make sense, which I’m perfectly okay with, I just feel blessed with being able to step in a ring again. The opportunity came around with the Casino [gauntlet], because it made sense, because if I was gunning for Bryan, I’d have to get a title opportunity against him. It made sense in that regard and there was a nice little tie in with Christian at the end, that might go somewhere, it might not, I don’t know. Either way, what a moment. Just incredible.”
Danielson defeated McGuiness on the September 25th edition of AEW Dynamite.
