AEW Stars Discuss ‘Very Scary’ Time During Lengthy Absence

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Private Party (Isiah Kassidy and Marq Quen) have opened up about the time when Kassidy was sidelined with injury in AEW.

Quen suffered an injury that would see him miss the whole of 2023, returning to AEW in January 2024.

During an interview with Denise Salcedo, the AEW World Tag Team Champions would open up about that period with Kassidy saying:

“It was very scary. I was super scared because all I knew was being in a tag team. I literally got out of wrestling training, straight into a tag team with Quen, so to have him not by my side was very scary.

“Luckily I had the likes of Matt Hardy and Ethan Page by my side and kind of literally walking me, holding my hand, going into this journey, and making me get my confidence and really find out who I am, and I feel like although it was a very sucky situation that Quen was gone, it was very beneficial to me because I found out who Isiah was, and I found out [how] to just be myself and just turn it up a notch when the gamer is on. It was very scary, but beneficial at the same time.”

Quen would describe his time away as “brutal” going on to reveal the upside of seeing Kassidy’s growth in his absence, adding:

“It was definitely brutal. But there was an upside, which was watching Isiah grow and seeing that, I was always like, you know what, we gonna be alright because he didn’t let me die.

“So Isiah had it to the point where it’s basically like, you know Brother Zay, but it’s also like, where’s that other guy?

“So watching him grow was a good thing, and not being forgotten was better. So I always would take it to Isiah and I was just like, ‘Thank you,’ while I was gone.”

Private Party beat The Young Bucks on the October 30 episode of Dynamite to being AEW World Tag Team Champions.

The Young Bucks are currently “working from home” with their return match set to take place at NJPW Wrestle Dynasty in January 2025.

Transcript from Fightful.

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