Former AEW wrestler Sadie Gibbs announces return to the ring
Former AEW wrestler Sadie Gibbs has announced she is returning to the ring.
Gibbs hasn’t wrestled since an episode of Dark on October 30, 2019. The UK native was released from AEW in August 2020 at a time when travel restrictions prevented her from working shows for the company.
She then announced her retirement on April 26, 2021, saying she wanted to focus on her fitness career.
Gibbs wrote in a social media post on Thursday that she will be partnering with Envigor Media to produce a documentary on her return.
She wrote:
SO IT HAS BEEN FAR TO LONG!
But I can’t get this chapter of my life, out my heart!I will be doing a documentary on my RETURN (yup I said it my RETURN) with @envigormedia
Truth is the pandemic (which end of 2022 only really started to feel like life was free to grasp again) took its effects on all on us one way or another for me I think without knowing it (I had another journey to take) in the last two years I’ve had a a couple of opps one where I had a 5cm inactive tumour (known as a dermoid) removed from my right ovary and endometriosis also diagnosed and removed.
I started suffering with sideeffects of this in my first year of being with AEW having vagal syncopes randomly and dangerously low blood pressure drops during these episodes.
Basically LIFE Happens! And TIME is needed where HEALING can occur my journey in wrestling all happened so fast it was one hell of a rollercoaster including my first ever major family loss (as many know about) then being signed one week prior to the funeral ❤️ a year later planing my move to the STATES all packed ready to leave & we hit our first national lockdown ” it’s fine be over in a few months” 6 months later no change and my release took place from @aew a contact I gave my heart and soul to gain! But if I’m being honest I wasn’t ready for it,but that’s another thing are we ever truly ready for what life throws at us? No we level up and grow despite what healing needed to take place inbetween we suck it up and know how blessed we are to have the opportunity.
I’ve been toying with the thought of getting back wrestling (I honestly feel like I went through a breakup with the business, and my craft that I worked so hard to create to that point ) I shut it out and got on with life SURVIVAL INSTINCT!and embarked on a journey which has now brought me back to this point! THE TRUTH! I’ve never stopped talking about performing the art of wrestling and everyone always says I have so much passion when I do. But it’s something I suppressed and I’ve never thought I’d say this about myself but the path back looked harder than the path away so I guess I just rolled over and called it retired.Let the hard work begin….
Gibbs only wrestled three matches with AEW before her release including the 2019 Casino Battle Royal. She wrestled in a four-way match with Emi Sakura, Allie, and Penelope Ford on the October 23, 2019, AEW Dark episode. Gibbs then teamed with Allie and defeated Big Swole and Mercedes Martinez the following week.
Prior to signing with AEW, Gibbs wrestled a tour for Stardom in January 2019. Our own Dave Meltzer wrote at the time that while inexperienced, she managed to get over with live crowds due to her gymnastics and athletic ability. Her only singles match on the tour was a ten-minute time-limit draw with Jamie Hayter.
