AEW: Bandido Invited His Abuela to 10/22 AEW Dynamite Show & Got Emotional Over Her Watching Him Wrestle For First Time, Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron on Their Praise of Mercedes Mone, Thunder Rosa AEW Abscense Update

Bandido Invited His Abuela to October 22nd AEW Dynamite Show & Got Emotional Over Her Watching Him Wrestle For First Time

The October 22nd AEW Dynamite show in San Antonio, Texas featured Kazuchika Okada defeating Bandido to retain his AEW Unified Championship.

AEW recently released a video featuring Bandido inviting his abuela (grandmother in English) to the show to watch him wrestle in person for the first time in his wrestling career.

Throughout the video, Bandido’s grandmother was shown meet with several members of AEW’s roster and AEW CEO Tony Khan.

Bandido’s grandmother talked about how she was proud to see him wrestle regardless of the result and how she wanted to cry in happiness seeing him work in the ring.

Both Bandido and his grandmother then got emotional while talking about his childhood and love of wrestling and laughing and tearing up about the memories being reminisced.

Last week in San Antonio, AEW World Tag Team Champion & ROH World Champion @BandidoWrestler invited his abuela to watch him wrestle for the first time! ❤️ pic.twitter.com/onZEx4jy6d

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) October 28, 2025

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Willow Nightingale & Harley Cameron Comments on Their Praise of Mercedes Mone’s Work in AEW

Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI held a recent interview with Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron. One of the topics discussed included Nightingale and Cameron’s thoughts about their praise of Mercedes Mone’s work in AEW and her continued growth as a performer in wrestling.

Willow Nightingale – “I don’t think there’s anyone as well studied as she is. One of the key elements of All Elite Wrestling is passion, and that is something that she just has like pouring out of her. You know, do I want to be TBS Champion, 12 belts person? Yeah. Who doesn’t, right? We’re all doing this ’cause we want to be that, but I can’t be angry that I’m not because she is doing all that it takes to be that person. She talks the talk and she walks the walk.”

Harley Cameron – “I’ve never met anyone this far into their wrestling journey that treats every day like it’s the first day. I respect her approach… She’s always growing, learning, evolving. I’ll see her at a random training session that someone of her caliber, probably most people, wouldn’t be going to… She’s always working. And I think that’s what makes her stand apart and why her success has been legendary. Especially this run because she’s someone who has that mindset of always keep working.”

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Thunder Rosa AEW Abscense Update

Thunder Rosa has been absent from AEW since this past July’s All In Texas event in Arlington, Texas.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that one reason for Rosa’s current absence is due to she had suffered an undisclosed injury during the Women’s Casino Gauntlet match at All In Texas. Sapp reported that the severity of Rosa’s injury is currently not known.

Sapp also reported that besides the injury issue, Rosa also has been spending time working as a co-host for the Busted Open Radio podcast and also recently launched a new podcast series with Nyla Rose.