Brody King has revealed who pitched Julia Hart joining the House of Black faction, opening up about his friendship with Hart.
Hart officially joined forces with Malakai Black, Buddy Matthews and Brody King at Double or Nothing 2023, following an intriguing character change which started in 2021.
She has been successful during her stint with the group, notably winning the TBS Championship in November 2023.
Speaking with Stephanie Chase, Brody King revealed that Hart actually approached Malakai Black about joining forces with the House of Black.
King noted:
“Julia was this little cheerleader girl when we met her. She had an idea and she approached Malakai and was like, ‘I have this idea, what do you think about it?’ Malakai was like, ‘Why don’t you cut some promos? Why don’t you develop the character and bring it back to me and we’ll talk about it.’
“That’s what she did. She went to work, came up with multiple promos, took the time on her own to book time with people shooting the promos, and really developed this character. She would ask me questions on, ‘Why this? why that?’ I started training with her as well and bring out a different side of her that wasn’t the bubbly cheerleader.
“She took to everything like a sponge. Character-wise and personality-wise, she is so far advanced for her years and wrestling and her age. She’s only 22 and she has the whole world ahead of her and she already has a big step up on it.”
Noting that he was definitely surprised by Hart’s pitch, King said:
“It was definitely surprising. It takes a lot of guts to go up to three scary grown men that you don’t know, ‘Hey, I have this idea. What do you think?’ That’s the kind of hunger and drive we need out of young people in AEW. To take that chance and risk.
“We didn’t even have approval from Tony (Khan) that this was going to happen. ‘Let’s make everything and then present it.’ Once it was presented, ‘Okay, this looks cool.’ I always call her my wrestling daughter. We go out to dinner once a week; me, my wife, her, and her husband.
“Whenever she has questions about wrestling or needs advice, we’re always here. We’ve taken her shopping to where she picked up the hat and was like, ‘I think this is cool.’ ‘You’re buying that.’ We bought her the hat and the rest is history.”
Hart hasn’t wrestled since suffering an injury in April. In her most recent match, Hart dropped the TBS Title to Willow Nightingale in a House Rules match at AEW Dynasty.
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