During her recent discussion with Inside the Ropes, AEW women’s division athlete Ruby Soho reflected on the moment when she received news she would be featured in the main event of AEW Dynamite Grand Slam. Soho also shared some insight on working relationship with Tony Khan, and more. Check out her comments below.
On being a part of the AEW Dynamite Grand Slam main event:
“I found out when I got there and I looked at the card. I was like ‘hold on.’ And I’m trying to find the match after us and there’s not one. I was like, ‘Oh my God,’ and I’m staring at it for an absurdly long time where I’m just like this has got to me some typo. There’s no way. I had seen the other matches on the card and I was just blown away. I double-checked and said ‘Tony, are we the main event?’ He said, ‘Yep, main event.’ I was like, ‘Oh my gosh!’ I was at that point in that moment where I was like I don’t know how much more my heart can take. I’ve been here for three weeks and I’ve been able to debut on our most historic pay-per-view that we’ve ever had and now I get to, on a card of legendary performers, I get the honor of having my very first title match as a main event of our biggest Dynamite to date. The first time we’d ever performed any wrestling in that building. It happened already and I’m still in disbelief. It’s just been one amazing thing after another. I don’t know how I’m going to top this. And now we have the TBS Women’s tournament and I’m like I guess it’s just another amazing milestone I get to be a part of. I’m just feeling crazy lucky. I’m so lucky to be a part of this and be part of these monumental moments in AEW history. I’m just very grateful.”
On working with AEW President Tony Khan:
“It’s been amazing. It’s so great. Tony is the best boss. He’s the best honestly. His excitement and his passion for professional wrestling is infectious throughout the locker room. When he comes up to you and he’s excited about something, you’re excited too. And you haven’t even heard what he’s had to say, but you can tell just by how stoked he is about stuff. It’s amazing. It’s such a positive and inviting energy and a productive one that makes you want to work hard. It makes you want to go that extra mile because you know your boss is so excited, so you want to do well for him, the product, your peers. You want to do well overall, so it’s a very encouraging environment. And like I said, a lot of these people I’ve worked with years ago. Granted it feels like a lifetime ago – it was about five years ago. But they’re still friends, they’re still people I road tripped with and stuff. It felt new, but it also kind of felt old, if that makes sense.”
