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Alicia Atout reacts to MJF’s AEW World title win

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Alicia Atout may never get to go on her honeymoon.

Atout and Maxwell Jacob Friedman were married in September but MJF’s wrestling and movie filming schedule have consistently prevented the couple from celebrating their wedding. Atout took to social media following MJF’s title win at Worlds End, writing:

“I am beyond proud of you, Maxwell. Any lane you step into, you dominate — effortlessly. It never gets old watching you win, whether in the ring or in life together as my husband. Now let’s bring that gold back to Long Island and celebrate you the way a true champion deserves. And maybe you’ll finally let me hold the title??? 👀✨💋💛 “

She later added:

“WAIT DOES THIS MEAN OUR HONEYMOON IS EVEN FURTHER AWAY NOW 😭”

Atout’s frustration at not having a honeymoon was also expressed when MJF returned to AEW programming in Manchester on December 17, writing:

“WTF MAXWELL. You told me we’d go on a honeymoon after you were done shooting the movie…”

MJF is scheduled to make his first appearance since winning the AEW World Championship on this Wednesday’s edition of Dynamite. The show is scheduled for the Liberty First Credit Union Arena in Omaha.

Atout’s social media posts are below:

The couple also adopted an eight-year old dog back in November:

Alicia Atout reacts to MJF appearing on AEW Collision one day after wedding

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Alicia Atout didn’t even get to go on her honeymoon.

Atout and Maxwell Jacob Friedman were married in a ceremony attended by numerous AEW personalities on Friday. MJF then appeared on Saturday’s live edition of AEW Collision from the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia, interfering in the Mark Briscoe vs. Konosuke Takeshita match on the show.

Atout posted to social media after Saturday’s show, “Nah, that’s cool. I didn’t want to go on a honeymoon with my new husband anyway.”

MJF also posted to social media following AEW Collision. He wrote: “REVENGE DOESN’T TAKE A HONEYMOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Although the match is not yet official, MJF vs. Mark Briscoe appears set for AEW All Out in Toronto on September 20. MJF challenged Briscoe to a match in any location with any stipulation on AEW Collision. Briscoe responded that the place was All Out in Toronto but he’d have to consider what the stipulation would be. The timing could be difficult for MJF, as he’s also scheduled to wrestle Mistico in a Mask vs. Title match at CMLL’s 92nd Anniversary Show in Mexico City the night before.

AEW couple officially get married, Tony Khan and Taz comment

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MJF and Alicia Atout are now married.

The couple were married on Friday night in a ceremony attended by numerous personalities from AEW, including Taz and Tony Khan.

MJF posted on social media late Friday night:

“Even when I’m old and grey I’m gonna feel the way I do today. The death of a bachelor.”

Atout posted on Saturday morning, “From Tits McGee to Mrs. Friedman. I love you.”

Tony Khan replied to MJF’s post, thanking Atout but not MJF, for the event:

“Best wedding ever! Thank you @AliciaAtout!“

Khan later added that Sammy Guevara and Tay Melo’s wedding was also great, writing, “Both 6 star weddings, to be fair. Tay and Sammy also wedding aces.”

Taz posted a photo of himself, his son Hook, and MJF from the wedding, writing:

“Big congrats to @The_MJF & @AliciaAtout on their marriage! Wish them nothing but a lifetime of happiness!”

Alicia Atout’s name on some of her social media pages has now been changed to Alicia Atout-Friedman. She and MJF went public with their relationship in November 2023, though it’s believed they started dating that February.

Up next for MJF is CMLL’s 92nd Anniversary show at Arena Mexico on September 19. He’ll put his CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship (which he refers to as the CMLL World title) on the line in a Mask vs. Title match against Mistico. The bout takes place the night before AEW All Out in Atout’s hometown of Toronto.

Britt Baker was suspended & fined by AEW for backstage incident

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Britt Baker was suspended and fined by AEW for a backstage incident involving MJF and his girlfriend & backstage interviewer Alicia Atout.

The news comes from this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter with Ibou of WrestlePurists also confirming via social media. Fightful also confirmed with some additional details.

Dave Meltzer reported the popular star, who just returned from a lengthy absence due to injuries and a medical issue, was either suspended “for either one or two weeks and fined by the company’s disciplinary committee.” It’s unknown when the suspension is up, but Baker was absent from this past Wednesday’s Dynamite.

While the details are light, Meltzer said that something happened at the 250th episode of Dynamite on July 17th where Baker allegedly said something about MJF which Atout heard. She then told MJF who then confronted Baker about it.

Ibou added the incident happened right after MJF’s match with Will Ospreay that opened the show with Fightful reporting that the Baker/MJF argument “resulted in MJF punching a wall before his hour long match.”

Fightful’s report also stated Baker “exercised frustration” about MJF within the women’s locker room. The outlet also reported that they had heard there was a confrontation between Atout and Baker and that Ospreay even talked to Baker at one point.

The conflict was apparently due to unresolved issues in the past and that, according to Fightful, the two former friends had a falling out at some point over the last year.

AEW HR then launched an investigation in an effort to settle things quickly and talked to people on July 24th. Meltzer was unsure as to what Tony Khan’s involvement was as “everyone was attempting to keep this under wraps.”

Baker is set to challenge TBS Champion Mercedes Mone at this month’s All In from London’s Wembley Stadium.

Alicia Atout joins AEW broadcast team

Posted on by Bryan Rose

Alicia Atout is All Elite.

Atout made her announcement in a social media post on Instagram Wednesday, writing “Cat’s out of the bag. I’m beyond excited to officially announce I’m ALL ELITE. See you every Wednesday, babyyyyy.”

Her first interview was posted on social media as a digial exclusive during AEW Dynamite. She interviewed Mark Briscoe after he qualified for the TNT title ladder match that will take place at Forbidden Door later this month.

This isn’t Atout’s first appearance in AEW, as she appeared at the original All In event back in 2018, and later appeared on the first ever AEW Double or Nothing event the following year. Atout ended up signing with MLW, where she remained as an interviewer and host until leaving the promotion in March of last year.

AEW has made changes to their broadcast team in recent months, releasing former backstage interviewer Dasha Kuret back in April. A new backstage interviewer, Arkady Aura, made her debut earlier this year.

Daily Update: Mike Modest, NJPW Cup fallout, Alicia Atout

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Highlights include:

  • Match of the week and performer of the week
  • WrestleMania updates, including status of different matches that have been planned and not announced
  • Ticket sales notes and demand for tickets, plus notes on NXT Stand & Deliver
  • A study of the buying patterns of PPVs for AEW, including comparisons with one year ago, how many shows the average AEW PPV buyer purchases each year, the difference between satellite owners and others in the viewing patterns, update on Revolution numbers and how many different people bought an AEW PPV this past year
  • Letters from WWE to the Alamodome in San Antonio show how WWE counted Royal Rumble attendance, along with the actual numbers from the show
  • Richard Schaefer, the famed boxing promoter, heading Anthem’s wrestling, MMA and new boxing divisions and what are future plans for the divisions
  • New Japan Cup coverage with all the matches from the past week
  • Notes on AEW’s Canada tour
  • Mexican star taken to prison on domestic violence charges against another Mexican wrestling star
  • Full coverage of this past week’s major pro wrestling events and the UFC show
  • Update on the WWE Hall of Fame including stories on the careers of the inductees
  • Coverage of the WWE’s return to its most famous arena, Madison Square Garden
  • The life of former wrestler Jeff Gaylord and his very checkered life after wrestling and during wrestling
  • The most detailed look at the weekly television ratings, competition, how segments did, where shows are strong and weak.
  • Promotion adding a ton of new talent after young wrestlers impress in a special format
  • Mainstream angle being done in Mexico
  • Joint show announced in Japan for the Himeka retirement
  • A look at the Guerrero wrestling family
  • Legendary athlete passes away that a wrestling move done all over the world was named after including the person who actually named the move
  • New promotion starting taking the name of a legendary regional company
  • International Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame 2023 inductions and ceremony
  • Ric Flair Twitter war of words
  • Lots of indie notes including some big crowds this week
  • 16 Carat Gold tournament in Germany news
  • Notes on recent Will Ospreay matches
  • Notes on major AEW negotiations
  • AEW cancels TV tapings and why
  • Update on social media abuse of Riho
  • Chris Jericho honored
  • Ticket sales for upcoming WWE & AEW shows
  • Streaming numbers for WWE & AEW this past week
  • International TV ratings updates including a company sets its all-time viewing record in Canada
  • Notes on AEW signees
  • UFC TV renewal talk even though it’s years away
  • Former UFC champion Benson Henderson retires
  • Update on WWE’s attempt to get legalized betting on its matches
  • Update on Jay White
  • Interest level mainstream of UFC, WWE and AEW big shows including geographical popularity split between AEW Revolution and WWE Elimination Chamber
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Tuesday Update

WWE

  • Nathan Frazer and Charlie Dempsey from NXT worked last night’s Main Event tapings, facing Bronson Reed and Shelton Benjamin respectively.
  • Austin Theory and Carmelo Hayes are guests on tomorrow’s edition of The Bump.
  • Bianca Belair and Logan Paul are upcoming guests on Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls talk show.
  • Kayla Braxton was a guest on the Horror at The Store podcast.
  • Matches added today’s to WWE’s YouTube include The Miz vs. Wade Barrett from WrestleMania 29, Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles from the March 21, 2022 episode of Raw, and Tommaso Ciampa vs. Tony D’Angelo from NXT Stand & Deliver 2022.

AEW

  • The code for tomorrow’s Forbidden Door presale is CHLS3X.

Other Wrestling

  • Mike Modest has been announced as an inductee into this year’s Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame class.
  • During this morning’s New Japan Cup, a mysterious vignette aired, concluding with the words “coming soon”.
  • This morning’s show also saw Robbie Eagles challenge Hiromu Takahashi next for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title. He announced that he has left CHAOS and has now joined TMDK.
  • Will Ospreay has pulled out of a match at Revolution Pro Wrestling on March 26 against Dan Moloney.
  • A live edition of Impact Wrestling will air on March 30 leading to Multiverse United later that night.
  • Alicia Atout announced on Facebook that she has been granted her release from MLW and is now a free agent.
  • MLW is promising an announcement on tonight’s program on Reelz.
  • KONGO’s Manabu Soya and Kenoh won the AJPW World Tag Team titles on today’s AJPW show, defeating Yuma Aoyagi and Naoya Nomura.
  • Dragongate announced that Eita has re-signed with the company. “He has expressed a desire to expand his activities. After negotiation, it was decided to update his contract to one that will give him the flexibility to do so while continuing to compete in #dragongate,” they wrote on Twitter.
  • Satoshi Kojima will be a part of this year’s AJPW Champion Carnival tournament.
  • Nick Wayne will be making his DDT debut in May.

Wrestling Observer Live: WWE Raw recap, Cody Rhodes, Alicia Atout interview, more

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Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with tons to talk about including the WWE Raw Report, Cody Rhodes, AEW and NXT lineups and more news.

Then, Alicia Atout joins us to talk wrestling, MLW, and tons more! 

A fun show as always so check it out~!

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MLW notes: Atout signs multi-year deal, Smith vs. Gotch at Zero Hour

Posted on by Joseph Currier

– After joining their broadcast team earlier this month, Alicia Atout has officially signed with MLW.

It was announced today that Atout has signed a multi-year agreement with MLW. She’s working as a correspondent/interviewer and host for the promotion.

“Alicia brings a passion and quality to MLW broadcasts and coverage unmatched in the sport,” MLW’s Court Bauer said. “We are very pleased to formalize Alicia’s future with MLW.”

Atout, who has previously done work for Impact Wrestling and AEW, noted that this is the first contract she’s signed in professional wrestling: “HUGE NEWS!! I’ve officially signed my first ever contract in professional wrestling and it’s with @MLW! Damn it feels good having a place to call home.”

– A no ropes, no holds barred match between Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Simon Gotch has been added to the lineup for MLW’s Zero Hour tapings. The show is taking place at the NYTEX Sports Centre in North Richland Hills, Texas on Saturday, January 11.

Here’s the updated card:

  • Jimmy Havoc vs. Mance Warner in a no ropes barbed wire match
  • Ross Von Erich vs. Tom Lawlor
  • National Openweight Champion Alexander Hammerstone defending against Aerostar
  • Davey Boy Smith Jr. vs. Simon Gotch in a no ropes, no holds barred match
  • Marshall Von Erich vs. MJF (If MJF wins, The Dynasty will get a Tag Team title shot against The Von Erichs. If Marshall wins, MJF can’t challenge The Von Erichs for the titles again.)
  • Erick Stevens debuts

MLW notes: Otani in Opera Cup, Alicia Atout joins broadcast team

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– Shinjiro Otani is coming to MLW for next month’s Opera Cup tournament.

MLW announced today that “Pro Wrestling ZERO 1 has entered the legendary Shinjiro Otani into the 2019 Opera Cup,” with him set to face Davey Boy Smith Jr. in the first round. The one-night single-elimination tournament is taking place at MLW’s television tapings at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York on Thursday, December 5.

This is the third opening round match announced for the Opera Cup. TJP vs. Brian Pillman Jr. and MJF vs. Alexander Hammerstone are also set. There’s one first-round match that is still left to be announced.

– MLW has also announced that Alicia Atout has joined their broadcast team as a correspondent and host. Atout was formerly an interviewer for Impact Wrestling and, though she wasn’t signed to the promotion, did some work for AEW.

“Alicia is both incredibly talented and hardworking, and has been a standout with her Vlog series AMBY,” MLW’s Court Bauer said. “We couldn’t be more pleased that she’ll be joining MLW starting this December on MLW FUSION.”

“AHH BIG NEWS! I’m soooo proud and excited to announce that I’m the newest member of the @MLW family,” Atout tweeted. “Truly can’t wait to start this new journey and be back on your TV screens. Absolutely crazy.”

Broadcasting team announced for All In

Posted on by Bryan Rose

All In has their broadcasting team set for the upcoming September event.

Their Twitter account today revealed that their broadcasting team will comprise of  Impact backstage interviewer Alicia Atout, Impact and New Japan color commentator Don Callis, former WWE backstage interviewer and announcer Sean Mooney,  ROH announcer Ian Riccaboni, PWG announcer Excalibur, ROH ring announcer Bobby Cruise and former WWE ring announcer Justin Roberts. It wasn’t announced what roles each would have on the broadcast, though the Young Bucks did ask Don Callis to do announcing when they made him part of All In last month during a New Japan’s Dominion event.

Cody Rhodes talked to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio this past weekend about distribution methods for All In. Rhodes mentioned that there would be both internet streaming and pay-per-view options. Despite that, no specific details have been announced as of this writing.

All In will take place on September 1 at the Sears Center Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, which is 25 miles from Chicago.