News and Rumor Roundup: Former Universal Champion to debut soon, WWE was interested in signing a current champion, AEW's role in Edge being cleared

Welcome to another edition of the AEW News and Rumor Roundup. On this edition, we take a look at rumors of former WWE Universal Champion Bray Wyatt making his All Elite Wrestling debut soon, as well as a possible date for it.

We also look at reports of Vince McMahon's company's interest in signing a current champion from AEW. Matt Hardy also commented on how interest from Tony Khan's promotion played a role in WWE clearing Edge. We also take a closer look at a couple of other stories.

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#5 Bray Wyatt to make AEW debut soon

Rumors of Bray Wyatt getting set to debut in AEW have been gathering steam in the last couple of days. The former Universal Champion, who was released in late July, could be making his debut on next week's episode of Dynamite, despite his 90-day clause not being up. Cageside Seats reported the following:

"Despite it not being 90 days since his WWE release, there is a lot of speculation that Bray Wyatt will debut for AEW next week in Rochester, New York, which is Brodie Lee’s hometown," stated the report.

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#4 Matt Hardy commented on AEW's role in WWE clearing Edge

Matt Hardy was a guest on episode 36 of the MLW Cast. During the show, he discussed Edge and his return to WWE. In Hardy's opinion, The Rated-R Superstar was cleared to finally return to the ring because he would have signed with AEW otherwise:

"That was one of those things too. I think if they [WWE] hadn’t have cleared Edge and let him wrestle, he was going to end up at AEW. So they kind of had to go, ‘Oh. If we don’t want him to go, we got to let him have his way,’" said Matt Hardy.

Edge made his return last year at the 2020 Royal Rumble pay-per-view. His best friend Christian Cage returned at the 2021 Royal Rumble but has since signed with All Elite Wrestling.

#3 WWE was interested in signing Britt Baker

Fightful Select reported that WWE was interested in signing AEW Women's Champion Dr. Britt Baker before she signed her recent contract extension.

The report also stated that the interest from the company was when they still were under the impression that Adam Cole's contract would end in late 2021.

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#2 Former NBA star Satnam Singh has signed with AEW

Former Dallas Mavericks star Satnam Singh has signed with AEW. He was the first-ever NBA player from India.

Singh will now attend the Nightmare Factory to get trained under the tutelage of QT Marshall and Cody Rhodes. Tony Khan said the following in the official press release:

“In addition to Satnam’s commanding 7’3” stature, I was impressed with his high level of athleticism and charisma. He’s an exciting addition to our roster, and I’m looking forward to our fans getting to know Satnam’s personality and watching his development," said Tony Khan.

Satnam Singh was a part of the 2015 NBA Draft, drafted at 52nd by the Mavericks. He went on to play for the G-League affiliate of the Mavs, the Texas Legends, before returning to India after two years.

#1 Chris Jericho recently revealed that Warner execs were "super angry" with one AEW Dynamite segment

During a recent interview with Stephanie Chase, Chris Jericho commended AEW for not being afraid to take chances and not being worried about what came after. However, he did add that this had gotten them into hot water a couple of times.

On one of these occasions, where Jericho had briefly smoked a cigar during a segment, it had drawn the ire of higher-ups in WarnerMedia. Chris Jericho said that he'd ever heard that they were going to "pull the show" if All Elite Wrestling showed anyone smoking again:

"One of ‘em actually was when we beat up Dustin Rhodes when I was feuding with Cody [Rhodes] way back at the beginning and we beat him up in the parking lot and then as we left, I lit up a cigar and they did not like that. ‘No smoking allowed on the show.’ They were super, super angry about it. ‘No smoking allowed’ and I was like, ‘Really? Out of all the things, that’s what they’re mad at?’"

"But they were very adamant that they did not want any smoking on the show and if you do this again — I don’t know if this was actually ever used but the way it was told to me was like, ‘We’ll pull the show if you guys do this again’ so it’s like all right, I don’t need to be smoking," Jericho said. h/t - POST Wrestling

Chris Jericho and Jake Hager are currently feuding with Men of The Year - Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page - and Dan Lambert in AEW.