Jon Moxley Helped Produce Skye Blue’s EVE Match, Elayna Black Struggled Post-WWE Exit

Skye Blue has opened up about her recent indie wrestling appearance.

During a Highspots Sign-it-Live session, the AEW star revealed that AEW Continental Champion Jon Moxley was actually on headset, helping produce her three-way match at Pro-Wrestling: EVE. Skye said,

“Yeah, (Jon) Moxley got to be on headset for this match, which was very, very cool, and younger Skye was happy as she could be.”

The bout for the vacant Spirit of EVE Championship saw Blue compete against Emersyn Jayne, with Lucy Deathmatch ultimately walking away as the new champion.

Elayna Black has revealed how her long, personal battle with mental health and stepping away from wrestling actually helped her heal.

During a recent interview with Soundsphere Magazine, Black said that she’s dealt with anxiety and depression since she was a kid, and growing up in the wrestling spotlight only made it harder.

After leaving WWE, Black intentionally paused her career for the first time since age fifteen, wanting to rediscover who she was outside the industry.

Though she missed wrestling within two weeks, taking that extra time helped refine Black’s love for the business before she eventually signed with TNA.

You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On her history with mental health struggles: “I’ve struggled with mental health as long as I can remember, as little of a kid. I’ve struggled with anxiety and depression and things like that. So, not only having that just as a person from a very young age, and then having to deal with that on top of being in the public eye and on top of everything that the pro wrestling business brings, it can be a lot.”

On taking a break from wrestling after her WWE exit: “For the first time since I was 15 years old, I took myself out (of wrestling) on purpose. I was tunnel vision since I started watching wrestling when I was eight. I wanted to take a step back and realise who I was without wrestling — because I kind of feel like I had gotten lost in that identity for so long… You’re playing a character, but the lines get blurred sometimes between what’s real and what’s not.”

On How Fans React To Her Online: “Wrestling fans are some of the most passionate fans in the world, and that is the greatest thing in the world, and also the worst thing in the world at times… You can’t read the internet, and if you do, you have to take it with a grain of salt. Someone could say you’re the greatest thing in the world, and someone could say you’re the worst thing in the world, and neither are true.”

On fans not looking beyond the character: “They don’t really see the person behind the character or social media presence per se. They kind of just type, type, type and say things. But we are real people and we do deal with things.”

On how the hiatus helped her: “I knew if I didn’t miss it, that maybe it was time for me to move on. But the fact that I missed it two weeks after I made the post and decided to step back — I took more time than I even wanted to, just because I knew it would be best… [It] refined my love of wrestling.”