She was front row to see her son win the AEW Tag Titles.
It was at AEW Fright Night Dynamite at the end of October that Private Party (Zay & Quen) challenged The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson) for the AEW World Tag Team Championships. The stipulation was that if Private Party lost, they had to split.
The duo went on to defeat Matthew and Nicholas to win their first championships in AEW. Coming off the heels of their title win, Zay and Quen appeared on Talk Is Jericho.
Looking back at the earlier days of their careers, Quen recalled when Zay’s mother showed up to the House of Glory wrestling school after she learned that her son dropped out of college to pursue wrestling. She cursed out Amazing Red, who is the founder of House of Glory and one of the trainers at their school. Zay’s mother was in attendance when him and Quen won the AEW World Tag Titles.
Zay: My mom was super against it (me becoming a wrestler) because she saw me beat-up and bruised and everything so… She was not with it. On top of that too, I dropped out of college and she was pissed off. She was super pissed. She was like, ‘You dropped out of college? I told you to go to college…’ I didn’t tell her I was dropping out of college to go into wrestling. But what I did do was I told her how I truly felt. I went to college and I did try it. I wanna try it and make sure I know this is not for me versus me not trying at all so I tried it and then I’m in college and I’m in class and I’m like, ‘Man, I am not happy. This is not what I wanna do. I’m just doing this to satisfy my parents.’ So, I told her, I broke the news. I said, ‘I’m not going to go back’ and she started crying and everything, and yeah, I said, ‘I’m just gonna really put my all into this wrestling stuff,’ and here I am. She was there last week, front row, with my whole family, seeing us win the Tag Team Championships.
Quen: I remember when she came up to the (House of Glory) school one time. She was hot. She cursed out (Amazing) Red and everything, and then all I heard was her saying, ‘And who is Quen!?’ And I was just like, ‘Oh!’ I was like, I am out of here… I don’t know what he said to her but then she calmed down and everything and then, she was gone. I didn’t even meet her yet at the time. I remember just hearing her: Beep! Beep!
Zay: She’s a heavy curser.
Next up on the docket for Zay and Quen is a title defense at Full Gear. There is an ongoing contenders series and there are two spots remaining in the four-way Tag Title match at the pay-per-view.
Already qualified and joining the champions in the bout are The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd & Truth Magnum).
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Talk Is Jericho with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
