Tony Nese Talks About Signing With AEW; Says He Can’t-Wait To Get Back In The Ring With Old Friends He Wrestled On The Indies

Tony Nese was released by WWE earlier this year in the midst of what WWE was calling budget cuts. Not too long after his release Bodyslam.net’s own Cassidy Haynes reported that Nese was spotted backstage at AEW’s Homecoming event in Jacksonville.

Earlier this week it was announced that Nese had indeed signed with AEW and the former Cruiserweight Champion sat down with Chris Van Vliet and spoke on his signing with AEW and opponents he’s looking forward to facing.

On signing with All Elite Wrestling:

“Thank you so much, this is awesome. It’s been a blessing, I am very happy. It’s funny, I got invited to go [to AEW]. They were like ‘Hey, we are in Orlando and we know you’re in Orlando…’ I’m like, yeah absolutely. I had been there before, during my 90-day non-compete just to hang out with my friends. I have tons of friends and people I have traveled within that company. Everyone was super cool and super nice to me and I think they liked me. But then they invited me to Orlando, and it was literally 10 minutes before they went live on the air. I got pulled aside and they were like ‘Hey, would you be cool to sit out in the crowd, and we just keep showing you on camera?’ I’m like yeah sure, TV time, I’ll take it. So I just sat out there. At first, I was like, is the house low? Then he explained it to me and I’m like that’s awesome. From there we got to discussing things, and it was super cool how they treated me off the bat and brought me in as a star. I am so appreciative of that.”

On who his AEW dream opponents are:

“I mean there are the obvious ones. You look at CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, and Kenny Omega. But I can’t wait to get back in the ring with Alex Reynolds, John Silver, Ethan Page, these are guys I have wrestled on the independents. We hit off there and our chemistry was amazing. I can’t wait to be able to have those matches we had in front of 100 people, but now in front of thousands. But it’s an open field, one week I could be wrestling an extra, but the next it could be CM Punk.”

Below is the full interview.

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