AEW: New Dynamite & Dark Tapings, Toni Storm on WWE “Crushed My Love for Wrestling”, Rampage Update

AEW Announces Upcoming Dynamite Show in Ohio & New Set of Dark Tapings

AEW recently announced that they will be holding an AEW Dynamite show on August 3rd in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets for this upcoming show was announced to officially go on sale starting on June 17th.

🚨COLUMBUS OHIO DEBUT! #AEW is coming to Arch City for the first time ever, with #AEWDynamite LIVE at @TheSchott on Wednesday August 3! Tickets (starting at $29+fees) go on sale NEXT FRIDAY June 17 at 10am ET! 🎟 https://t.co/UN1cNj1kQq / https://t.co/Y4EcTO5v4i pic.twitter.com/x9sGtmkJGE

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 7, 2022

AEW also recently announced that they will be holding a new set of AEW Dark tapings on June 11th at the Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

Be part of a LIVE studio audience for #AEWDark action at @UniversalORL Florida THIS SAT, 6/11
• Session 1: 2pm – 5pm https://t.co/pRyan0RIpL
• Session 2: 7pm – 10pm https://t.co/aP2JVJQFMo
LIMITED seating available for both sessions available NOW!
🎟 https://t.co/UN1cNj1kQq pic.twitter.com/pyhMg25YZn

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 7, 2022

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Toni Storm Comments on WWE Career “Crushed My Love for Wrestling”

A recent episode of The Sessions with Rene Paquette podcast had Toni Storm as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Storm’s thoughts on her time in WWE “crushed my love for wrestling.”

“Yeah, I didn’t feel that appreciated a lot, you know what I mean? And I just felt like they didn’t, at times, have very much respect for me and it just was — it totally — I feel like over time, they kind of just crushed my love for wrestling. It just wasn’t even wrestling anymore. You’re not even allowed to say ‘wrestling’. You get put in a group text like, ‘Don’t say professional wrestling in promos’ and this and the other and I’m like, oh yeah, I understand but like whatever, but this — I don’t know. Over time, it just kind of — there’s so much f*ckery, you know? So much bullsh*t, each to their own. Some people don’t get that and some people do and I was just sick of it, I was just tired of — what am I doing this for? What am I trying to prove to anyone? Will anyone think any differently of me really? Will people really care where I go and do fake wrestling moves? Do people really care that bad that I’ve gotta be miserable day in, day out? Just because people will go, ‘Oh, that was ungrateful and she shouldn’t have done that,’ blah, blah. Well I was unhappy and why should I be unhappy? So that I can do WrestleMania? Okay. That’s nice and everything but I’m still gonna be miserable the next day, and I thought my whole purpose in life was to go to WWE but then over time, I realized, it’s just pro wrestling that I love. It’s not a company that I love. I just love pro wrestling, what it is.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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AEW Rampage Airing Status on TNT Update

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that due to TNT’s commitments for the on-going NHL 2022 Playoffs ending this past Monday, AEW Rampage will be resuming airing at their regular Friday time slot of 10PM EST going forward.

Johnson reported that the next preemption period for AEW’s Rampage series is currently expected to take place this October but it is also entirely dependent on MLB’s yet to be determined broadcast schedule for this year’s playoffs.