Whereas there’s been little change at AEW’s announcer’s desk thus far in 2024, the promotion has been overhauling their broadcast workforce in different areas. Lengthy-time ring announcer and character Dasha Gonzalez was let go from AEW earlier this 12 months, whereas Alicia Atout and Arkady Aura have been added as backstage interviewees and, in Aura’s case, ring announcer for Rampage and Ring of Honor respectively. Even nonetheless, AEW has determined {that a} acquainted face wanted to be added to finish their broadcast workforce.
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Taking to Instagram on earlier Tuesday afternoon, Melissa Santos posted a photograph of herself standing in entrance of an AEW brand. Within the ensuing message, she requested followers in the event that they missed her, and thanked AEW for the chance, indicating that she had signed with the promotion. Santos additional thanked those that helped make this potential, and closed by saying it was time to get to work. Hashtags Santos posted indicated she would serve the same function as Aura, in that she’d be a backstage interviewer and a hoop announcer.
Santos was most not too long ago seen in wrestling working for TNA, then Influence Wrestling, becoming a member of the promotion in 2019. Most wrestling followers, nonetheless, will keep in mind Santos for her run as ring announcer for all 4 seasons of Lucha Underground, the place she labored from 2014 to 2018. Whereas with the promotion, Santos additionally wrestled one match, teaming with future AEW co-worker Rey Fenix to tackle Marty “The Moth” Martinez and Mariposa. Previous to LU, Santos had educated as a wrestler, briefly competing in Girls of Wrestling in 2013.
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Becoming a member of AEW will reunite Santos with her husband, Brian Cage, who has labored for AEW and ROH since 2020. The couple had beforehand labored collectively in Lucha Underground and Influence, the place their relationship was acknowledge onscreen.
