Harley Cameron has detailed conversations she had with WWE and revealed she almost signed with the company before joining AEW. The current AEW Women’s Tag Team Champion competed in only her second-ever wrestling match on an episode of AEW Dark against her current tag team partner, Willow Nightingale.
Cameron would go on to sign with AEW after only 21 matches in her career. She has now opened up about the conversations she had with WWE prior to her AEW debut. Speaking on the Ariel Helwani Show, Cameron expressed gratitude for the assistance WWE provided early in her journey.
“I will say thank you to them, because thanks to them I have my green card,” Cameron said. “Thanks to them, I learned to wrestle, they helped me with wrestling training for Flatbacks. I believe they went through a transitional stage where, in their office, certain people were released from the company, they went through some big changes, and fate just didn’t lead me in that direction… In the interim of not knowing what was going on, [I] had an opportunity to be at AEW Dark, then I had another opportunity there, and was offered the contract with AEW.”
Cameron noted that, because she was unable to work at the time, she could not train at the Performance Center. Instead, WWE sent her to Flatbacks Wrestling School, where she trained with Tyler Breeze and Shawn Spears.
“I don’t know whether interest was lost in the journey but AEW found me and I’m very lucky they did,” Cameron continued. “I was in communications back and forth, but it’s not like I got a contract offer, but I initially, that was my initial first goal was definitely going that direction. I think AEW has allowed me to showcase who I am as a performer. Tony Khan has given me so many amazing opportunities, and I’m so lucky he took a chance on someone who only had 21 matches… Sometimes when you think the universe is saying no, it’s because they have other plans.”
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