The legendary pro boxer Mike Tyson made his return to AEW as he joined the commentary booth for this week’s AEW Rampage. AEW star Athena (Ember Moon in WWE) took to her Twitter account and posted a picture with ‘Iron Mike’ backstage.
Her caption read:
“.@aew Sooooo tonight was really cool!! I got to meet @MikeTyson 0and he was absolutely amazing! #AewRampage
#Aew”
.@aew Sooooo tonight was really cool!!
I got to meet @MikeTyson 0and he was absolutely amazing!#AewRampage #Aew pic.twitter.com/IUpFwKSnlU— Athena is All Elite (@AthenaPalmer_FG) November 5, 2022
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Athena was recently involved in a controversy due to her match in AEW.
The October 17th AEW Dark: Elevation featured a divisive match between Athena and local talent Jody Threat, won by ‘The Fallen Goddess’ in just under five minutes. Although the match got off to a normal start, things took a turn for the worse when the former Ember Moon began laying into Threat following an alleged failed comeback sequence.
Footage of the over-physical match quickly went viral on social media, with many questioning and outright slamming Athena for her actions in the match. WWE Hall of Famer Booker T also slammed Athena for her actions.
Speaking on his Hall of Fame podcast, the six-time World Champion claimed there was no way for Threat to brace herself from one particularly hard kick:
“I’m going to tell you, AEW, they are one bad accident away from something really, really being done about what’s going on in that company and people looking at it from a different perspective.”
“She kicked this girl so hard. There’s no way you could brace yourself for what I saw. Is it cool? Are the fans loving it? Yeah, yeah, they are loving it.
“But there’s a reason I’m still walking around today … it’s because I knew how to go out and perform.”
Booker T said there was a “certain way” he would wrestle that was different depending on whether he was at a house show, weekly TV, or a pay-per-view and “neither one of them was the same.” He then went on to take aim at the fans, saying they “don’t give a damn” about wrestlers getting hurt.
“They don’t care about those guys in the ring. [Wrestlers] are nothing more than toys, a video game for these guys. If they’re not out there getting a ‘This is Awesome’ chant, they don’t give a damn about these guys going out there getting hurt. They really don’t.”
