10 Completely RANDOM Cameos In AEW
7. Aubrey Edwards
Should a wrestling referee ever wrestle?
No.
That's the short, boring answer. The matches are rarely entertaining except to those who deem it necessary to remove the stripes from an official's back. Earl Hebner vs. Nick Patrick at Invasion 2001 was one of the worst matches WWE has ever produced, but Vince McMahon was dubiously cackling on the headset at what he was witnessing.
Tony Khan likely had a less devilish reaction when booking Aubrey Edwards to wrestle on a June 2023 Rampage episode - but the decision must still be questioned.
She teamed with Mark and Papa Briscoe, the latter being another questionable AEW one-offer, to tangle with Jeff and Karen Jarrett, and Jay Lethal. The match went a dismal 9:45 and saw little wrestling from AEW's head referee, as was expected, but she still managed to find herself in a bizarre situation, applying a Figure Four Leg Lock to Karen Jarrett in a moment unpredictable if asked of any day-one AEW follower in 2019.
The match...just happened.
It stemmed from Aubrey having been blasted with a guitar by 'The Queen of the Mountain' at Double or Nothing the month prior, but that AEW placed it on Rampage, not Dynamite, says all you need to know about its place in history.