In a recent virtual signing for the Highspots Wrestling Network, All Elite Wrestling superstar Leyla Hirsch revealed that she actually signed her contract with the company in October 2020, despite AEW announcing recently that she had signed a full-time contract with them.
“I don’t even know if I’m allowed to say any of this, but my first week on Wednesday night, I faced Shida and that was great and then there was an incident, there was a match that was supposed to happen with the girls and it didn’t because there was an injury and then they called me and they were like Leyla, we need you to wrestle Serena Deeb, so me and her literally only had 20 minutes to put the match together, went out there, did it and then when I got backstage, Kenny Omega put his arm around me and said to me, I hope I’m not putting too much pressure on you, but he was like, what’s your availability, we would like for you to work here and then Christopher Daniels pulled me aside and gave me the contract right there and then, so surreal, but my first week there, I ended up getting the contract, so it was wild. I don’t know why it took them this long to announce it, just timing, yeah, just certain things, but it happens, I’m so grateful for it.
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