Melissa Santos is All Elite.
Melissa Santos revealed on Instagram that she has joined the AEW broadcast team. She used the hashtags announcer and backstage interviewers.
Santos previously worked for TNA Wrestling and Lucha Underground. She is the wife of Brian Cage.
Fightful will provide more details on Santos’ role in AEW when they are known.
I mean, they kinda did. There was that one time he interviewed Joey Janela during the breakup/feud with Sonny Kiss. You know, the infamous “Nip Factory” promo.
I’ll have to google that later. I don’t know what the “nip factory” is.
Also, unrelated to the topic, but related to your comment…
Why did Joey Janella not last longer in AEW??? ESPECIALLY at a time when they only had Jericho as a big name? Their roster wasn’t bloated back then. Granted they only had 1 show instead of 3, but still.
Joey was never exclusive to AEW, so he may have only wanted to work so many dates as he was still doing GCW and every-other-indie-on-the-continent at the time which usually leads to you being ‘the occasional booking’. Same as a normal job, if you’re available only in the mornings, only on weekdays, you aren’t getting shifts.
Based on interviews he did after he left he prefers working the indies as he is since he gets to be his own boss and has already been booking his own shows for years, instead of dealing with backstage politics/having a boss/etc.
It’s a factory… FULL OF NIPS!