AEW: Dynamite’s New Changes Teaser Video, Ruby Soho on Nose Injury Recovery, Ricky Starks

Dec 25, 2022

AEW Releases Teaser Video for AEW Dynamite’s Upcoming New Visual Changes

As noted before, AEW is currently working on plans to change up the look of their AEW Dynamite shows starting this January.

AEW Vice President Kevin Sullivan recently released a teaser video on Twitter hyping up Dynamite’s upcoming new changes that he stated has been in the works for the past nine months.

“We set out to create a new brand identity for #AEWDynamite with a comprehensive set of package elements,” Sullivan wrote on Twitter. “The team is thrilled to finally share our new, bold vision, that will help create a new spirit for the show. This is what 9 months of work looks like in :15. To be continued!
The synergy we have with the team at WBD is incredible. I also take a tremendous amount of pride & have so much respect for our internal graphics team & what they are always able to accomplish! It also goes without saying that @TonyKhan vision is boundless. #ThankYou”

We set out to create a new brand identity for #AEWDynamite with a comprehensive set of package elements. The team is thrilled to finally share our new, bold vision, that will help create a new spirit for the show. This is what 9 months of work looks like in :15. To be continued! pic.twitter.com/72Pm3jB9WD
— Kevin Sullivan (@KevinSullyTV) December 24, 2022

Ruby Soho Comments on Her “Rough” Recovery from Her Recent Nose Injury

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast had Ruby Soho as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Soho’s thoughts on her “rough” recovery from her recent nose injury.

“2022 has been a rollercoaster. It has been me trying to kind of find my footing here in AEW, exactly what my role is, where I fit in, who I wanna present myself as, and obviously getting injured and being out for three months, and then kind of mentally dealing with that. I think anybody on this panel who has wrestled before understands that injuries are almost more mental than they are physical, at least for me anyway. So it’s been a rollercoaster, but I think it’s been really empowering, and I think the best is yet to come for me, for sure.
I think with this [injury], with my nose being broken at All Out, I think it was because it was so sudden, and I had no time to prepare for it, and you gotta understand that it’s go, go, go, go, onto the next thing, onto the next thing, and all of a sudden, it’s abruptly stopped. You go home, and you’re not going back to work for the foreseeable future because you have to recover, you have to have surgery, you have to do this and that. So it’s such an abrupt stop with no anticipation, and it’s such a change in lifestyle in such a quick period of time, so your brain has to have time to kind of get used to where you’re at now, and try to convince yourself, ‘Oh, maybe I’m missing an opportunity that I could have had if I didn’t get injured.’ A lot of mental difficulty comes with that, but I think at the same time, it’s super important to realize that you need those times. You need those times for things to stop so you can process everything that’s happened in the recent years or months or whatever, and you can really just take the time to let your body recover. My body was hurting, and not even just obviously my nose, but my back was hurting, my neck was hurting. I probably wrestled more in the last year than I had probably in the four years prior to that. It was tough matches with incredible women that go out and put it all out there every time, so my body was hurting. So I think honestly, mentally, physically, emotionally, all of that, it was needed if I’m being honest.
As soon as I got injured this last time and I stopped, it [nagging injuries] got more noticeable, but even while I was doing it, even though the schedule was so crazy, I think vividly I remember my match with Riho, during the tournament, after that match was the most pain I’ve been in after a match in a really long time. I don’t think it was anything to do with [Riho]. It was a very physical match, Riho is absolutely incredible. But I think it was just a buildup, and it was a tournament, so I was wrestling quite a bit and moving on in the tournament. But after that, I couldn’t move my neck, and my back was hurting so bad. It was just a pileup to where I was like, ‘Man, I might need some time. I might need some time.’ But you never know when the right time is. If you wanted to take some time away, I’d you wanted to take some time off, you never know because it’s always in the back of your mind. ‘Am I missing an opportunity? Am I skipping out on something that I need to be there for, that I could be doing something great with? So it’s never a good time until sometimes, wrestling just tells you this is the time. You don’t have a choice.
It was about three-and-a-half, four months. So I had actually broken my nose probably seven times prior to my most recent break. I had a deviated septum for a long time. I could not breathe through his nostril. Whenever we got COVID tests, they would stick the Q-tips up my nose, and it would get stuck. It would stop, and then they would have to go to the other one because it was so deviated on this side. But when I got it broken the last time, one, I have never felt that kind of pain before in my life. If you watch the clip back, right after she knees me in the face, you can see my stomach go in because I’m literally screaming, and I’ve never screamed out of pain before in my life. It ended up, my septum went like this, so I could not breathe out of either nostril. I had broken it, so most of this is cartilage. I had my broken my nose, which is just a little space here, in two different places. Then this had just slanted entirely. My nose was so wide and across my face. So I had always had trouble breathing prior to that, but then after that, I couldn’t breathe out of my nose for the first two-and-a-half months that I had, and then I had surgery and everything like that. They put stints in each side of your nose after the surgery. Once the stints came out, which is the most disgusting thing that you’ve ever seen in your whole life, just these long, gross things Exorcist-style being pulled out of your nose, once they came out, I slept like the dead. Like fried, unattractive, drool coming down my face, slept better than I’ve ever slept in my entire life because I could finally breathe. But it was a rough recovery, for sure. Right after that, it was brutal. Not being able to breathe out of my nose for so long and then breathing out of your mouth so much, and then your throat gets dry, and that starts to close up, and you can’t breathe. It’s crazy, some of the things you kind of take for granted that are just normal everyday [things] until it’s taken away from you.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Ricky Starks Comments on His AEW Career Goals for 2023

A recent episode of the Casual Conversations with The Classic podcast had Ricky Starks as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Starks’ thoughts on his goals for his AEW career for 2023.

“My main goal for this year is to really carve out my own type of…I want to be so fulfilled in myself. What I mean is, I want to be fulfilled creatively, I want to be fulfilled in the ring, on the mic, I want to be fulfilled as a person, on this television show, that has stepped up and is now on another level and he should be talked with those other people on that level. I would love to win the TNT Championship, if I don’t get to the AEW Championship first. Those are things I want to do. Stepping out of the wrestling stuff, I want to star in a TV show, I want to star in a movie. These are things that I want, that I’m going to get, because I deserve it. I’m going to make sure that I get it. Regardless, nothing is going to stop me.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com