Kyle Fletcher says AEW Grand Slam Australia is going to be crazy.
AEW held AEW All In at Wembley Stadium in 2023, and they returned to the venue in 2024. The company also made their debut in Cardiff in 2024. In 2025, AEW will come to Australia for the first time, as AEW Grand Slam Australia will be held at Brisbane Entertainment Centre on February 15. The show will mark a special homecoming for Kyle Fletcher, who was born in Sydney.
Speaking to Fightful and Downunder The Ring for a new interview, Kyle Fletcher discussed AEW's upcoming debut in Australia.
"Dude for me, it's like bringing two of my loves together, right? Growing up in Australia. I love the country through and through. AEW, I love the company through and through. I love being a part of it. So it's really like two worlds of mind colliding and I think that's probably going to be the coolest part. I get to wrestle for the company I love in front of the country that I love. It's going to be incredible. No
words. I can't describe it. I remember doing Wembley last year....walking out there and thinking like, ‘Man, if I ever got to do this in Australia,’ because you had all these UK people on the show and it's like they're wrestling in their home country for the first time in a massive stadium. I’m like, ‘Man, if we could ever do this in Australia, it'd be the coolest thing in the world,’ and ‘lo and behold, a year later I'm sitting here talking about doing the same thing. It's going to be crazy," Fletcher said.
Fletcher went on to note that he wasn't necessarily surprised when AEW Grand Slam Australia was announced, as AEW All In led him to think that they could do it. He said that there had been rumblings about it, and he was excited once it was made official.
"I don't know if I would say surprise is the right word. Because I had that thought. I was like, ‘Man, we can really do this. I hope that we do this one day because it'd be cool.’ I heard it. There was like rumblings of it. I'm like, ‘Yes, yes, let's do it. I'm excited. It still didn't feel like surprise. It was more so like a, ‘Fuck yeah let's go.’ Like it was just excitement for me," Fletcher said.
Fletcher recently lost to Will Ospreay in the semifinals of the AEW Continental Classic at AEW Worlds End.
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