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Answers: AEW Morale, Mariah May, Knicks/Pacers

Added 2025-05-20 16:00:11 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Can you elaborate further how/why the backstage morale in AEW has been better as of late?

I'm not back there experiencing it, it's just something I've heard from a number of talent over the past four or five months, dating to late last year. There certainly seems to be less division, although that will never completely go away.

So Sean with Willow re-signing so quickly as Fightful select reported and Mina, Thekla that pretty much seals the fate of Mariah May heading to the WWE I’m wondering what’s your take on it?

So to clarify on Willow, I'd known she was in a contract year and that AEW was hoping to re-sign her for a number of months prior to the story coming out. It just ended up happening in a way that we ran that story, and as a result of her signing almost right after that, we were able to find out that info. A true coincidence that it happened so close together. I don't think those deals have any bearing on Mariah May's.

The Knicks and the Pacers are in the finals and Tyrese Haliburton and Jalen Brunson will be facing one another as our team’s compete and you know what I’m thinking this year summer slam is at MetLife Stadium in the New York City area. Do you think that WWE will do a Tyrese Haliburton versus Jalen Brunson match at Summerslam? Because I think that would be cool honestly.

I absolutely think there's the possibility that they could end up "representing" other talent, but I'd be shocked if they did too much physically. I know they're athletes, and physicality is second nature, but we're 27 years removed from Rodman vs. Malone. 17 years ago, the NFL wanted Pacman Jones doing NOTHING physical. George Kittle got fussed at for doing his spot. The Knicks owe Brunson $100M and another three years AT minimum, excluding a player option. The Pacers owe Tyrese Haliburton almost $200M. I think that will outweigh everything.