{"id":643300,"date":"2026-05-02T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:00:11","slug":"former-aew-star-says-he-felt-like-a-signed-extra-during-his-run-with-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/643300\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AEW star says he &#8220;felt like a signed extra&#8221; during his run with the company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an appearance on Busted Open Radio, former AEW star Bear Bronson reflected on his run with AEW and transition to TNA Wrestling\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if I could explain the difference between the two and I\u2019m not throwing any shade here but when I was with AEW, in all of five years, from start to finish, I felt like a signed extra, if that makes sense. Where you\u2019re just kind of there whether you\u2019re there or not, it doesn\u2019t really make a big difference, and on the complete other end of the spectrum is with TNA. I actually feel like an important part of the piece moving forward, and it\u2019s funny because I came to the company at the same time as The Righteous who I\u2019m very close with, and we both have very similar journeys, where we feel like we found a new home, where we are like, \u2018We can really sink our teeth, and give all of our talents and give everything we have to push a company forward.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like even in my first weekend with TNA, I felt welcomed immediately by the entire roster, all these people I don\u2019t know. The team, the entire team I just met, I felt welcomed immediately.\u201d (quotes courtesy of F4WOnline.com)<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I&#8217;m exactly where I need to be.&#8221;\ud83d\ude03<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bearbronsonBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@bearbronsonBC<\/a> shares w\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THETOMMYDREAMER?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@THETOMMYDREAMER<\/a> how he found a home at TNA on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BustedOpen247?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BustedOpen247<\/a> Podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aGybV2PybQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aGybV2PybQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SiriusXM Busted Open (@BustedOpenRadio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BustedOpenRadio\/status\/2050164021228101767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During an appearance on Busted Open Radio, former AEW star Bear Bronson reflected on his run with AEW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-643300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}