It’s a schedule that most people would loathe considering as part of a job, but when you love what you do, putting in 250,000 miles of air travel in a single year isn’t that big of a deal.
Edwards is a professional wrestling referee for All Elite Wrestling, and is making her Seattle debut on Wednesday at Climate Pledge Arena.
Their flagship television program, AEW Dynamite, makes its Seattle debut on Wednesday, and the talent from the area could not be more excited.Darby Allin, who grew up in Maple Valley and trained at the Buddy Wayne Academy in Everett, told KIRO 7 that skateboarding as all she did growing up, and performing at the then-KeyArena was the furthest thing from his mind.
Nick Wayne, son of the late-Buddy Wayne , wrestles for Defy Wrestling in the Seattle area. The 17-year-old is already turning heads, flying around the world to perform before sold-out crowds while he’s still in high school. “To have that moment with him and to be there from the start,” Allin said. “I would take him to skate parks when we were younger and all those things. It’s crazy. It’s cool to see the journey, especially for him. I remember when his dad passed away, it was two days later and he was training in the ring and posting videos of himself training and I always thought that was the craziest thing. This kid lives for this.”Wayne will be 18 in July, and many suspect his AEW debut will be soon after..
Before the end of our conversation, Allin wanted to be sure we noted that Swerve Strickland, a Tacoma native, isn’t actually from the area. “Why would I do that,” Edwards said. “I learned how to ref at the gym – it’s no longer open, they shut it down during the pandemic – that was called Evolve Fitness over in South Lake Union. It was the first time I stepped into the ring.”She met wrestler Frankie Kazarian during her northwest loop at a show in Surrey, British Columbia, about three weeks before AEW debuted.
Edwards holds the rare distinction of being the first woman to referee a main event men’s title match on pay-per-view in the history of wrestling, a fact that she is still amazed to even think about.
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