Tony Khan Sends Best Wishes To Tanea Brooks (Rebel), Talks Potential Fight For The Fallen Event To Support ALS Research
Rebel receives well-wishes from AEW President Tony Khan.
All Elite Wrestling’s Tanea Brooks, a.k.a. Rebel, took to social media and shared that she was diagnosed with the terminal stage of ALS.
Her battle with ALS was brought up to AEW President Tony Khan during the Double or Nothing post-show media scrum. Khan shared that former NFL player Steve Gleason reached out about a potential collaboration. Gleason was diagnosed with ALS in 2011.
Khan stated that he thinks it’d be good to host a Fight for the Fallen event in support of ALS research.
“First of all, I wanna send best wishes to Rebel. Rebel’s been with us since the beginning. She’s not here on the road with us now but Rebel’s still always gonna be a big part of AEW and we’re thinking about her. I really appreciate you asking about it and we’re keeping Rebel in our thoughts but also, there are things you can do to support her. I just got it today—I have not had a chance to reply because I’ve been at the show, but I’m going to reply to him. I just heard from Steve Gleason. Steve Gleason reached out on behalf of the ALS Foundation and his own foundation and I do think there’s gonna be great chances to collaborate and do something… and with this, we’ll have these bracelets, thinking about Rebel and I’m thinking that it would be great to work with Steve Gleason and the ALS Foundation to put together Fight for the Fallen, and have Fight for the Fallen to benefit ALS and people dealing with ALS and the treatment and I think that would be something we could all do that would be a positive way to support and in the meantime, yes, there are ways the fans can support it which is giving to ALS research and supporting the charity now. You don’t have to wait for Fight for the Fallen, and that’ll be a great opportunity also for people to give to support ALS research and treatment.”
On the May 2nd episode of AEW Collision, the company sent a message of support to Rebel.
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