Released WWE Star Discusses Potential AEW Return

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A former WWE star has revealed they are open to a potential return to AEW in the future, teasing a possible match with a close friend.

Bea Priestley was one of a number of WWE stars to be released in early February 2025, on a list that included several former champions.

As she enters free agency following her non-compete clause ending, the former Blair Davenport has revealed that she is open to a potential AEW return, although she has interests elsewhere.

Having signed with AEW in January 2019, Bea Priestley would remain with the company until her release in August 2020.

Speaking to Tom Campbell of Cultaholic, Priestley would talk about her kinship with Toni Storm and would consider a conversation about an AEW return, saying:

“Definitely now with Toni (Storm), everyone knows how close me and Toni are. We’re like sisters at this point. She lives in Orlando as well, we see each other fairly often.

“But I’m also along the lines of I’m definitely open to having conversations but I do also want a little bit of time just to do my own thing because I’ve just come out of a contract where it’s like you have an app. If you’ve got a dot on this day, you have to be there, you have to show up.

“If you’re sore from the gym or you’ve had a hard match and they book you the next day, you can’t say you don’t feel like it. You have to go do it even when you don’t feel 100 per cent or you don’t particularly feel wanting to do it. You just have to.”

She would go on to say that, at the moment, she’s happy to do things that she wants to do, stating:

“So I kind of just want to be able to take things that I want to do and do it because I’m looking forward to it or enjoying it rather than doing it because someone else is telling me to…

“Even WWE, I was very happy like, ‘Tell me what to do. I’m more than happy to do whatever.’ I’m not one of those people who is like, ‘Oh, I don’t want to lose.'”

“I’m just generally excited, say if there’s an opponent who I really want to wrestle that I can push that and get excited to wrestle someone who I’ve always wanted to and never had the chance to, or have another match with someone who I really enjoyed wrestling in the past.

“I’m looking forward to taking on my own stuff for a little bit and then maybe after I’ve done that, maybe I’ll push a little bit harder…But I know Toni really wants to wrestle me, so we’re hoping it’s going to happen someday.”

Storm and Priestley last faced each other in a singles match back in June 2018 at Frontline’s Build Me An Empire in London, England.

The match marked one of Storm’s last independent bookings, having signed a WWE contract in May of that year.

Priestley would sign with WWE in June 2021, debuting on NXT UK as Blair Davenport before moving to NXT 2.0 in August 2022 and the main roster in June 2024.

Transcript from Cultaholic.

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• Blair Davenport
• toni storm
• bea priestley
• AEW
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