Below are a couple of top AEW news stories of the day, featuring Mariah May and Ricochet.
• During an interview on Wrestling with Freddie, Mariah May addressed kissing Mina Shirakawa on AEW TV (and on one occasion, sharing a triple kiss that also involved “Timeless” Toni Storm).
Here’s what the 2024 Women’s Owen Hart Cup winner said:
“It was not pitched. We just did it. Mina and I are extremely close. We’ve always been very close in Stardom. We just did it. The next time around, they were like, ‘Hey, can you guys stop kissing?’
I think there’s a bit of an archaic view on it and people seem to think we have no autonomy over our bodies. It’s my choice who I kiss. It’s my choice what I do. If I’m not comfortable doing something, I would always say so.
I remember seeing, you know, the usual suspects, being like, ‘Oh my God. This is setting women’s wrestling back so much.’ It’s like, first of all, no one made us do it. We chose to do it. That’s just how we show affection to each other and we always have in our friendship.
Like I said, if I don’t want to do something, I won’t, but myself, Mina, and Toni are three extremely decorated women’s wrestlers who, off our own backs, have become very successful all over the world, and so to try and tell us we’re setting women’s wrestling back was pretty crazy to me.
The numbers don’t lie. I think myself, Toni, and Mina got the best rated segments for about 8 weeks in a row, and as we should.”
WATCH: Triple Kiss Between Toni Storm, Mariah May & Mina Shirakawa:
• Former WWE Superstar Ricochet is heading to All Elite Wrestling and could appear at this Sunday’s All In 2024 PPV at Wembley Stadium.
According to Fightful Select, Ricochet has signed a multi-year deal with AEW. While details about his role at All In remain unclear, sources confirm that Ricochet is traveling to London for the event:
“Several familiar with the situation claimed that Ricochet is traveling to London for AEW All In, and was planned for the show. We haven’t learned what his planned involvement would be.”
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