The Varsity Blonds Officially Sign With AEW
Brian Pillman Jr. and Griff Garrison are #AllElite.
Having been heavily featured on AEW programming in recent months, the Varsity Blonds duo of Brian Pillman Jr. and Griff Garrison are now officially #AllElite.
AEW took to Twitter to confirm that Pillman and Garrison have now signed full-time deals with Tony Khan's promotion.
Welcome to the team...#theVaristyBlonds - @griffgarrison1 and @FlyinBrianJr are #AllElite pic.twitter.com/j8NqYqzVmp
Advertisement— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 12, 2021
Griff Garrison made his AEW bow in June 2020, first appearing on AEW Dark in a losing effort against Jimmy Havoc. As for Brian Pillman Jr., he debuted on a July '20 Dark episode where he was bested by Shawn Spears.
The duo of Garrison and Pillman would first start teaming together on Dark late last July, with them taking on the Varsity Blonds name in December. Since then, they have also taken in Julia Hart as part of the group.
For Brian Pillman Jr., he had been unable to pen a full-time contract with AEW until his deal with Court Bauer's Major League Wrestling expired. Both he and Garrison were on tiered AEW arrangements across this past year or so, and it was deemed a "foregone conclusion" that both would land full-time deals with the company.