A few weeks ago Tony Khan announced that AEW All In will take place from Wembley Stadium in August and it seems that fans are excited about the show as over 60,000 tickets have been sold. It’s expected that AEW will be booking the biggest show possible and there’s been a lot of speculation regarding who could be lacing up the boots for the event.
Former ROH World Champion Nigel McGuinness recently spoke to Digital Spy about possibly coming out of retirement for the event, and he indicated that a match at All In isn’t completely off the table for him.
“It’s certainly the event and perhaps a final chapter to my career, to my journey, so Wembley Stadium certainly springs to mind. There are a number of factors, I’m an age now and at a place in my life where I certainly don’t want to harm the rest of my life. I don’t want to get any injuries or anything serious that’s going to impinge my ability to enjoy my life as a parent or to travel. So that’s certainly a concern. You’ve also got to understand that at a show like Wembley, there are so many guys that are super talented and deserve those spots as well, so to take one of those spots for myself I think would be pretty hard. I think if we sell the place out, maybe I’ve got no argument but to go dust the boots off. But it’s so many things, it’s the event, it’s the opponent, it’s the timing and it’s hard to know. I cannot give you a definitive in that regard.”
While talking about potential dream opponents for a comeback match Nigel McGuinness named wrestlers like Bryan Danielson, Jonathan Gresham and MJF as people he would like to step into the ring with.
“In terms of dream opponents, obviously it would have to be someone like Dragon [Bryan Danielson], given our history and the true story that’s there,” McGuinness said. “I think the best stories, the best angles in wrestling, always have that undercurrent of reality and it’s just so real there. It’s just so real and it’s so honest and authentic and nuanced as well in the sense that, it’s not just as simple as there’s a good guy and a bad guy, you can understand and you can identify with both of our journeys. We were once going in the same direction and now we’ve gone in completely different paths, but there’s a lot of emotion there to establish and even if that means me just being on commentary for a match of his as well. There are guys like Jonathan Gresham or MJF as well, those sort of guys that you go, ‘Yeah, I think I could really have a great match with them.'”
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