Ilja Dragunov: “If We Say That AEW Is Where The Best Wrestle, How Couldn’t I Belong Here?”
Ilja Dragunov states that he is where the best wrestle.
The All Elite Wrestling debut of Ilja Dragunov took place at the 2026 WrestleDream pay-per-view, and he’s officially under contract with the company.
After his arrival, Dragunov joined Renee Paquette and AEW President Tony Khan on the post-event media scrum. He stated that if AEW is where the best wrestle, how couldn’t he belong in the company.
“It’s a landscape of limitless opportunities that I see in front of my eyes because if we say that AEW is where the best wrestle, how couldn’t I belong here?”
Khan opened up about how Dragunov’s signing came to be, and to read the details of that, head over to this link.
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