AEW Announcer Debuting In-Ring During Women’s Tag Team Cup Tournament
Credit: All Elite Wrestling
Tonight marks the second night of AEW’s Women’s Tag Team Cup Tournament: The Deadly Draw, and the promotion has pulled out a surprise. Tournament host Madusa told backstage interviewer Dasha Fuentes that she’d be Chris Jericho: Jim Cornette Is Under Suspension From AEW Until Further Noticein the tournament. Dasha seemed excited to pick Blue, which teamed her with the debuting Rachel Ellering. Ellering and Fuentes worked together in NXT, so they already could have chemistry.
SOCIAL EXCLUSIVE@DashaKuret is excited about tonight's tournament.
However, @Madusa_rocks is about to give her more exciting news!Watch the AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament TONIGHT via our Official YouTube Channel 7/6c. https://t.co/rQt36U8MoE pic.twitter.com/WKtQQv62w1
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) August 10, 2020
Later on, Dasha and Rachael found out that they’d be facing the team of Ivelisse and Diamante in the quarter-finals:
Your quarterfinal matches in the AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament continue as @RealIvelisse & @DiamanteLAX face @DashaKuret & @RachaelEllering! #AEWWTTC
Watch the AEW Women's Tag Team Cup Tournament TONIGHT via our Official YouTube Channel 7/6c. https://t.co/rQt36U8MoE pic.twitter.com/qmUqhY0Ciq
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) August 10, 2020
This may come out of nowhere for fans who only know Dasha as an announcer, but she was initially hired as a wrestler for NXT back in 2014. Twitter user @SoDuTw shared a few images from the days before a knee injury shifted her backstage for good:
Had a science dork gimmick pic.twitter.com/G66UfA2mVB
— SoDuTw (@SoDuTw) August 10, 2020
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