A notable free agent has revealed that he and Jon Moxley have been closely working with a rising AEW star.
Sami Callihan, who recently departed IMPACT Wrestling, has been busy working in The Wrestling REVOLVER, the promotion he owns, recently wrapping on a weekend of events in Dayton, Ohio.
One star who was featured heavily in the promotion’s Women’s Grand Prix tournament was AEW’s Marina Shafir, who lost in the finals to fellow AEW name Billie Starkz.
When speaking to Cultaholic Wrestling prior to the event, Callihan revealed that he and former tag team partner Jon Moxley have been mentoring Shafir.
Callihan revealed:
“100 percent (I put together the Marina Shafir video package for The Wrestling REVOLVER’s Women’s Grand Prix). Marina is a project that me and (Jon) Moxley have kind of taken under our wing.
“She is someone we think can be extremely pivotal in the business and she’s that next evolution of professional wrestling.
“All these girls wanna talk about, ‘Oh, I’m a badass. I’m a badass.’
“If push comes to shove, Marina Shafir is one of the baddest out there.
“A remarkable athlete, a pioneer in women’s MMA and I think she is just, just on the cusp and just realizing how big of a star and how incremental she could be to professional wrestling and I think she is gonna continue to get better and better and better and better and grow.
“One of my favorite women professional wrestlers to watch right now and such a person that has a good head on her shoulders…”
Following three years with WWE, Shafir first appeared in AEW in late 2021. While she has wrestled for both the TBS and AEW Women’s titles in the past, it can be argued that she has yet to truly break out in the company
Shafir’s most recent AEW match came on the October 6 edition of Rampage when she and Nyla Rose lost to Hikaru Shida and TBS Champion Kris Statlander in tag-team action.
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