During a recent interview with NBC Sports Boston, AEW star Athena went into detail about how long the talks between her and AEW were before she would go on to sign a contract and debut for the company in May at Double or Nothing. She said,
“It was like a six-month, ‘Ah, are we interested? Are you interested?’ Because I think, when I left, I didn’t know if I wanted to continue wrestling, I just knew that I loved watching the AEW product at home … I had a couple of matches on the indies and those blew up – Shane Strickland, Taya Valkyrie, Mia Yim, and it just kept getting more and more traction. I think like, we finally just kind of hit the double tap on the phone call and it was like, ‘Yeah, let’s figure out something. Let’s do this.’“
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