Bea Priestley comments on a possible return to AEW.
In August 2020, Priestley was released from AEW due to the COVID-19 pandemic and her inability to travel from Japan. In June 2021, Priestley signed with WWE, becoming Blair Davenport in the process.
Fast forward to current day and Priestley is once again a free agent after being released from WWE in February. While speaking to Tom Campbell of Cultaholic for a new interview, Priestley was asked about a possible return to AEW.
“So, I mean, definitely now with Toni —- everyone knows how close me and Toni are, we’re like sisters at this point, we see each other fairly often. But I’m also on the lines of like, I’m definitely open to conversations but I do also want a little bit of time just to do my own thing because I’ve just come out of a contract where it’s like, you have an app and if you’ve got a dot on this day, you have to be there, you have to show up. If you’re sore from the gym and you’ve had a hard match and they book you the next day, you can’t say I don’t feel like it, you have to go do it even when you don’t feel 100% or you don’t feel particularly wanting to do it, you just have to. I kind of just want to be able to take things I want to do and do it because I’m looking forward to it or I’m enjoying it rather than doing it because someone else is telling me to.”
Priestley continued on and explained her stance on things, emphasizing that she wants to take her own path for a little bit before a potential match with Toni Storm.
“Yes. I’m all for — even in WWE, I very happy to [be there], like tell me what to do, I’m more than happy to do whatever, I’m not one of these people who is like, ‘Oh I don’t want to lose’ or ‘I’m not happy with that.’ No, if I lose to someone like Charlotte Flair in a minute, I’ll be like, oh, that’s fucking great, I just had a match with Charlotte Flair. I don’t care if it’s only a minute long, sometimes I think that’s better to be fair. But no, I’m just genuinely excited to be like, say there’s an opponent that I really want to wrestle, I can push that and get excited to wrestle someone who I’ve always wanted to and never had the chance to or have another match with someone who I really enjoyed wrestling in the past. So, yeah, I’m kind of looking forward to taking on my own stuff for a little bit and then maybe after I’ve done that, I’ll try to push a little bit harder. But I know Toni really wants to wrestle me, so we’re hoping it’s gonna happen someday.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Bea Priestley talked about being unhappy in WWE. Check out her full comments by clicking here.
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