Former WWE superstar Mia Yim was touted for AEW when she was released by the WWE.
However, Yim would decide to return to IMPACT Wrestling instead, where she made her name prior to joining the WWE. Following her release, Yim took a small break from the ring, returning last month. For those who don’t know, Yim and Keith Lee are a couple.
Speaking to Alistair McGeorge of Metro, Yim explained why she didn’t follow her husband to AEW.
“Ever since we started dating, it was like, ‘I never wanted to take his moves,’ we never wanted to be a tag team, we wanted to be our own separate brands.Sometimes we’ll do mixed tags or whatever and do things together, but we didn’t wanna be known just for that. We established very early on that we were own brand, we didn’t have to always stay together. I always get asked, ‘Why didn’t you go with Keith?’ It’s like, because I’m my own person and I wanna do what I wanna do, you know? [laughs] So, as long as we support each other with whatever it is, we don’t always have to be together!” she explained. “Nothing bad to say about AEW but I’m just like, ‘Babe, that is your realm, go and kill it over there. That is your home.’ He was super supportive of me going back to IMPACT.”
Mia Yim to Metro
Yim is set to compete in the first ever Queen Of The Mountain match at this weekends IMPACT PPV.
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