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Select Answers: Lena Kross, AEW international, MJF Creative
🕑 Added 2025-12-24 17:00:12 +0000 UTCWelcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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When can we expect to see Lena Kross make her full-time debut for AEW?
The last I'd heard, she was set to relocate to Florida in the coming months. I'm not sure if she's done that, as she's not wrestled in the area recently. This is another one of my primary criticisms of AEW -- they sign a lot of people and then just stash them for months. There are at least three people that I know of that have been signed and just parked and haven't debuted yet. The short answer is I don't know and I doubt they do either.
Do you know if AEW is looking at some international shows in 2026 and beyond? Seems like they could easily pull a show off in Japan for a weekend.
I don't think they'll do Japan without NJPW co-promoting any time soon. However, they're definitely aiming to go back to the UK and Mexico. Both of those were deemed huge successes for AEW. I spoke to someone with knowledge of how they go about booking the buildings, and they said that they feel AEW has found a nice groove of being able to go to a different country and sell the show out, then do familiar, famous venues like Hammerstein, and mixing in WNBA arenas. I would personally expect at least one new country to host TV in 2026.
Was their a recent creative shift for MJF? Seems odd there was a Diamond Ring Battle Royale and hes not part of the angle or match.
Myself and Wrestlevotes have reported for weeks that MJF was factored into the AEW Worlds End Plans. The word around the company was that MJF could have been back a little earlier, but that's not confirmed. However, the plan for a four way at AEW Worlds End has been the working plan for well over a month.
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jxb
Who else has recently signed to AEW but is “sitting”
Gregory Gibson Jr.
Speaking to AEW criticism of stashing signings, having the expectation that once someone is signed, they immediately go into something is extremely short-sighted. Storylines and creative are planned out weeks to months in advance. Interest and timing of the contract coming up dictates signing time. We also criticized when people signed, had a quick spot on Dynamite or Collision, then disappear. Contract terms are for years, not months.
