Pro wrestling star Shotzi Blackheart's sultry reason for AEW interest

Shotzi Blackheart will be featured in several independent pro wrestling shows over the next few months after she departed WWE following roughly six years with the company.

She appeared on "The Ariel Helwani Show" on Tuesday and discussed the promotions she would be interested in joining as she attempts to find a full-time home. She mentioned that she loved All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Total Nonstop Action wrestling and watches their programming.

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She explained why AEW would be her preference if she had a choice.

"For so many reasons," she said. "I love their freedom. I have a lot of friends there who are doing really awesome things. I’ve heard many stories of how (AEW co-owner) Tony (Khan) treats talent. I do love that he really cares for his talent – that is super important to me.

"And like, hot girls get to make out with each other, so, like, that’s cool."

For what it’s worth on Shotzi’s latter point, AEW stars Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa shared a kiss after their match at Double or Nothing last month. Storm faces Mercedes Moné for the AEW Women’s Championship at All In next month.

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Shotzi, whose real name is Ashley Urbanski, also made clear she loved working for WWE and was only unhappy when she wasn’t being used.

"I mean, I would love to be back at WWE," she said. "I loved working there. I didn’t love not working there. It was only when I wasn’t being used that I was unhappy, but anytime I was being used, good time – love the locker room, loved everyone I was working for. That’s just it. I just don’t want to go back and not work."

Shotzi attempted to join WWE through the company’s "Tough Enough" challenge in 2015. IT wasn’t until 2019 that she joined the NXT brand and worked her way to the main roster.

She was an NXT women’s tag-team champion with Embar Moon, who wrestles as Athena in the AEW-affiliated Ring of Honor. She was also named the 2020 NXT Breakout Star of the Year.

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Miranda Devine: Trump is White House host with the most as he gives wide-ranging interview for debut podcast

When you meet Donald Trump, the first thing you notice is his hospitality. He is a bountiful host who always wants to make visitors feel comfortable.

He will quite literally offer you the food off his plate. He will endure constant bruises on the back of his hands from well-wishers showing their gratitude with vigorous handshakes that he reciprocates warmly, even though he’s a renowned (maybe reformed) germaphobe.

He likes people and is always generous with his time and attention. It’s a quality his detractors will never allow but it has been a big part of his success.

Whether it is rearranging portraits and beautifying the Oval Office or personally curating the songs at his rallies, he obsesses over details that he knows will please people and create a convivial atmosphere. As one White House intimate says, "it’s a party every day" in the Oval Office of the famously teetotaling president from Queens.

That was what I found Monday afternoon when I arrived in the White House for the first interview of our new podcast, "Pod Force One."

The leader of the free world had kindly allocated 45 minutes to kickstart the enterprise, and had chosen the elegant, red-walled library as his set. But first he ushered me into the Oval Office to meet some of his cabinet gathered around the Resolute Desk.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Homeland Security boss Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller were there to discuss pressing matters of state, but the president also made sure to put everyone at ease with a perfectly timed joke and effusive praise for his A team.

When he finally arrived in the library at 6 p.m. for the podcast, he was still in good cheer despite the momentous burdens he carries. The LA riots were top of mind, but his decision to reinstate "law and order" by calling out the National Guard and sending in the toughest Marines, over the objections of the feckless Gov. Gavin Newsom, was bullish instinct.

We covered everything from Elon to Iran, drones over New Jersey to the secret of Joe Biden’s autopen (he knows how to spot the fake signatures).

As his Treasury and commerce secretaries, Scott Bessent ("straight out of Central Casting") and Howard Lutnick ("a killer"), wrestled with the Chinese on trade over a conference table in London, he divulged that President Xi Jinping’s team is "a little spoiled from having such great success against our negotiators" in the past. No such luck this time.

He was remarkably candid about family life: his formula for good parenting (no drugs or alcohol!), the possibility of a Trump political dynasty (you can hear Rosie O’Donnell screaming from Ireland!), why his father bundled him off to military college when he was 13, his inner "genius" and the musical instrument his mother had him learn as a child — you will never guess what it is!

He also revealed what he believes is the greatest ingredient for success when he judges other people. You’ll have to tune in to find out!

I hope you do find the time to listen. Love or hate Donald Trump, he is a singular man of history who is bending the world to his will for the benefit of the country he loves.

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