Shayna Baszler Says She's Talked To Promotions, Could Join Friend Marina Shafir In AEW

Former WWE Girls’s Tag Staff Champion Shayna Baszler parted methods with WWE in July 2024 after an eight-year run with the promotion. Since then, she’s competed in Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport, however there hasn’t been any overt indication of her wrestling future. Throughout an interview on “The Ariel Helwani Present,” Baszler was requested if she has any plans to hitch AEW.

“There’s been talks,” Baszler mentioned, including that she’s spoken to a number of indie promotions. “Clearly, it is not a secret, I am actually good pals with [AEW star] Marina [Shafir]. I’ve numerous pals there. So there’s been some dialogue as to what the long run may maintain, for certain.”

When requested if she’d wish to signal with AEW, Baszler defined that she would not care about which firm she indicators with particularly, and that she simply needs to wrestle and doing so alongside her pals would solely make it higher.

“I am not gonna say a tough no to any of that,” she claimed.

Baszler then addressed the rumors that she was TNA sure sooner or later or would return to MMA. “I am glad that if the opportunity of a TNA factor would come to fruition, I’m ready the place I have never burnt that bridge,” she defined. “If I have been to get out and do all these podcasts and speak about how ‘artistic did me soiled,’ and this and that, like there’s like numerous doorways that shut for me.”

Relating to an MMA return, Baszler admitted that she’s merely not in form nor does she assume she’d be keen to get into form for the game.

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