Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize have given their account of the events that led them to leave the AEW Collision taping on Saturday.
They spoke on Sunday following initial reports that the team refused to take a loss. Other reports indicated a dispute over the short amount of time allotted for their match.
Speaking on a Twitch stream, Newell, alongside her partner Alize, gave her version of events.
Newell stated there was “no bad blood on either side.”
Arriving at the Collision taping on Saturday, Newell said they were “hanging around, not told anything” until just after the doors opened. They were then informed they had a match against Tay Melo and Anna Jay and “came up with a bunch of ideas”. According to Newell, a producer then informed them the match would last three minutes.
Newell said their reaction was not anger, but disappointment, as they had been told previously to establish themselves as a “credible tag team”.
No one’s gonna be happy with three minutes, but we weren’t there going, ‘What the fuck?’… It was more like, ‘Oh.’ We were told that, you know, we were gonna have a match of substance… and after the promo that we cut, we were told to make ourselves to be a credible tag team.
Newell said it was “decided collectively” that the short match would not be beneficial for anyone involved and firmly denied reports of any confrontation. Maya World and Hyan wrestled Melo and Jay in their place.
According to Newell, the conversation with their producer was “polite” and “respectful”.
We called our producer over and we said, ‘Hey, I don’t think three minutes are gonna benefit either of us… not just us but everyone in the tag team. And we want what’s best for everyone, you know? So respectfully, we preferred this to go to someone that it can benefit’.
Newell stated that the producer relayed their message and returned to inform them they were “free to go home”. She added that they received a text message confirming this.
They texted us, they said, ‘All good, no problem, you guys are free to go if you like’… We were given the go-ahead to leave.
They claimed that they then left the venue to go eat because it was “tiny” and “catering was full”.
Newell concluded by insisting the decision was not “an ego thing” and noted she is in her “last two years in wrestling” and just wants to “have fun”.
