Backstage News – Rebel’s AEW Contract Status, Collision Commentary Team, Buff Bagwell

Fightful Select is reporting that although Rebel has been absent from recent AEW shows, she is still under contract with Tony Khan’s company. Rebel has been busy with her AdFreeShows podcast lately.

Moreover, as of last week, it was suggested that AEW is yet to decide on the commentary team for Collision which debuts this Saturday on TNT.

In other news, WCW legend Buff Bagwell did a live Q&A with Eric Bischoff on AdFreeShows during which he reflected on his heel turn following his return from a broken neck in 1998.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On returning from the injury as a heel: “My parents were flipped over it because I was going to be a bad guy. My friends and family cried about it … It could’ve been a great babyface run coming out of the gate with that. But the nWo thing, it was meant to do exactly what everybody thought was going to happen, and do the opposite. And that’s where Eric succeeded with WCW and that’s why we did so great at it. It was just the way to do it, going the other way.”

On how he thinks it could have been done better: “The only thing that I wish we would’ve done, that I felt that WCW was short on, was we didn’t do any kind of video angle of it. I remember having the talk with Eric about it at the hospital, and during that time, that wasn’t cool. Eric was right. He was like ‘Mark, that’s bad karma man. I don’t think we should do that.’ So we backed off. And then not long after that, Triple H tore his quad, and you would’ve thought that Jesus Christ came back. I broke my neck and made it back in ten months.”

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