Edwards was the focus of Renée Paquette’s latest podcast episode.
In addition to Aubrey Edwards being with All Elite Wrestling since 2019, she has taken on roles behind the scenes, including being part of the company’s ‘Games’ division.
AEW is scheduled to release their ‘Fight Forever’ video game and footage of the gameplay has come out.
As Aubrey was speaking to Renée Paquette on The Sessions podcast, she mentioned that she is working on a number of games for AEW that she “can’t quite talk about yet.”
As I mentioned, I am co-host for AEW Unrestricted, official podcast, new episodes every Thursday. That’s kind of what I started with when I was working the office contract side of stuff and then someone got ahold of my résumé at some point and went, ‘Wait, she worked on games for like ten years?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! Okay.’ So, I’m working in AEW Games which is our games, sort of, umbrella and I’m working on a number of games for them right now that I can’t quite talk about yet.
Following up on that, Edwards was asked about her contract status and she shared that she has a two contracts, one for being a talent and another for an office position.
So I have two contracts (with AEW). I have the talent contract that looks like any other talent contract and I make that paycheck through that and I have an office contract which is a completely separate paycheck.
Later in the conversation, Aubrey touched on the online criticism she receives. She stated that it has never come from her fellow referees in AEW, but will notice comments from referees on the independent scene.
Edwards finds it amusing that some will speak about her in a certain manner and then turn around to message her about doing work with AEW.
I will hear some criticism online from other referees that are on the indies and stuff. I’m like, dude, why are you criticizing people on TV? Don’t you want a job? (She laughed) I don’t focus on the criticism. I just focus on how silly people are when they’re like — why are you criticizing something online if you’re then shooting me a D.M. about getting a job at AEW? We’re not gonna do that if you just sh*t all over me.
There was a point in Aubrey’s refereeing career when she was brought in by WWE on a semi-regular basis. She looked back on getting to officiate some of the Mae Young Classic tournament.
Edwards was the referee for the match when Tegan Nox blew out her knee and Aubrey believes it was how she handled that situation that led to WWE bringing her in more.
It was Tegan Nox (who got injured in the Mae Young Classic). I was in that match… She gets hurt and I’m like, ‘Oh God.’ I don’t know what to do, how are we going to handle this?… You could (hear a pen drop) and I’m just trying to focus on her but at the same time, I don’t work here so what do I need to do to make sure she’s as safe as possible? And it was just a whirlwind of, oh God, this is crazy and I think how I handled that situation had an impact in kind of the other times I got brought in.
Aubrey consistently officiates Chris Jericho’s matches in AEW and this Sunday at Revolution, Jericho is going one-on-one with Ricky Starks.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit The Sessions with Renée Paquette with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
