Davey Boy Smith Jr Is Open To Working With AEW

In an interview with Hannibal TV (via Fightful), Davey Boy Smith Jr. said that he was willing to work with AEW if the company expressed an interest in doing so. The WWE alumni has wrestled for MLW, AJPW, NJPW and more in the past.

He said: “Yeah, that’s a good question. A lot of people have asked stuff like that in the past. I certainly don’t have any problem or issue with doing anything with AEW. Working with MLW, I’ve worked with a lot of New Japan talent that have been coming in. I got nothing bad to say about New Japan either. I’m very thankful for the work that they gave me. Time expired, and there was a lot of stuff, a lot of middlemen and things that got confused between myself and them. But they just didn’t seem to want to really expand with me, and I was ready to move on, and time expired. But it is certainly a possibility. People have asked a lot of times about why I wasn’t on the Wembley Stadium show or why I’m not in AEW, and a lot of it is, the last year or so, I was doing stuff with MLW against. I guess from AEW’s perspective, which I totally understand, I’m not mad at all, if they bring me in for one show, I guess I’m gonna have to go over, and then it’s just a one-shot deal. Obviously, they had enough people in attendance that they didn’t necessarily need me as an addition, although I would have been a positive addition to the show. Then to MLW’s respect, it’s like okay, I go off and do this one big show for AEW, and if I did lose on it, it’d be kind of what would MLW get positive out of it? Maybe some exposure, I’m not sure, but with all due respect to them, it’s a little hard. Also, there hasn’t been any reach out as far as if I were to do that, fans would want to see a continuation or some sort of a story after that, or further additions to an AEW, not just one-time match, but tag-teaming with Lance Archer for instance, but that’s people that they have under contract, so I would be up for it if it was a one-thing deal. But I think that maybe it’s better that I’m over here in All Japan, and I think my life and quality of life and the way I’m progressing myself personally over here, I think that’s the best idea that I continue on with All Japan Pro Wrestling, and if AEW did have a tag team tournament, a yearly one, I could perhaps go there. Maybe when my All Japan deal is done, maybe I do go to AEW. I’m not sure. I’m not against that at all, in any way, shape, or form. Reuniting with Lance Archer, it certainly got over in the past, and maybe it would be a fresh breath of air for AEW if I came. But I would be up for it, but it just hasn’t happened because I haven’t been approached, it hasn’t worked out.“