Vickie Guerrero was introduced as the new manager of Nyla Rose at AEW Fight for the Fallen last Wednesday on TNT.
Speaking on her Excuse Me podcast, Guerrero talked about how she came to join All Elite Wrestling and how the COVID-19 pandemic led to a delay in her storyline plans.
“I’ve been saying for a long time that my dream is to be with All Elite Wrestling. There’s been so much going on to get to this point. With COVID, there’s been a lot of testing and people got exposed. I had a family member get exposed, so I had to wait for my test to get back. It delayed it for a good month and a half.”
Guerrero also speaks about appearing on a panel on Chris Jericho’s cruise in January and mentioning she wanted to manage Nyla Rose, something Rose was very receptive to.
“There was a lot of conversations back and forth. I did express to them, ‘I would love to be part of this team.’ I talked to Tony Khan quite a bit and they did like the reaction, then for me to be on the Jericho cruise and have the podcast and featuring the women, I set a precedent that I 100% wanted to be part of the company, whether it was just the podcast or being a superstar, I let them know that I enjoy being part of the company. It resonated with them that I could be someone they could depend on. When Double or Nothing came around and I was on TV and became an Inner Circle cheerleader — the roster was really amazing, Britt Baker and Sammy Guevara and a lot of the roster was like, ‘when are you coming over, when are you gonna stay here for good instead of going home?’ They were really sweet about it. I had a lot of support.”
Transcript courtesy of Fightful.