In case you missed it, MMA star Paige VanZant signed her AEW contract during the climax of the March 11 edition of AEW Dynamite. The show closed with a TNT Championship main event between defending champ Sammy Guevara and PVZ's associate Scorpio Sky. PVZ watched the match from ringside, but jumped the barricade and attacked Sammy's girlfriend Tay Conti. This created a distraction of which Sky was quick to take advantage. Sky won the gold, and PVZ signed her contract right there in the ring as the show went off the air.

PVZ is now officially an AEW employee, but she could have ended up down at the WWE Performance Center if things had gone differently.

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"I knew my career was going to take me to the WWE or to AEW. I was watching both of them...huge fan of both," VanZant recalled during a recent appearance on The MMA Hour. "The first AEW show I went to, though, the feeling, the audience, the crowd, everything about it, I just knew I belonged and it was something I knew I'd be really good at."

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PVZ also revealed that she was in discussions with WWE at one point and even paid a visit to Orlando.

"I went down to their training center about a year ago. I did have some things in the works, but AEW kind of said what they needed to say. They had all the right words to get me to come over to the AEW," she said, before elaborating on what inspired her decision. "There was just different contract details and styles," she said. "[AEW] is working hand-in-hand with BKFC and letting me be a professional fighter still. I still get to be myself. It's not an exclusive, full-time, wrestling contract."

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