Khan took to social media following the match and announced Christian is officially a member of the AEW roster.<\/p>\n
“The Swirl, Vanilla Baby Blake Christian + [Lee Johnson], had another excellent showing on Saturday tonight, and now it\u2019s official: [Christian] is All Elite,” Khan said. Christian joins a growing list of recent AEW signings, including The Dogs and The Rascalz.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s match was Christian’s second in AEW in 2026, as he and Johnson previously lost to The Young Bucks on AEW Collision<\/em> in January.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old may be new to AEW officially, but he has been under the arm of the organization for some time. <\/p>\n Christian was a standout on the independent wrestling scene following his debut in 2017, eventually getting looks in New Japan Pro-Wrestling during the pandemic era in 2020. This would put him on WWE’s radar, and he would sign with the company on a developmental deal in February of 2021.<\/p>\n He would go on to take up the name “Trey Baxter,” wrestling sporadically on WWE NXT <\/em>and 205 Live<\/em> before being released in November of that year. Christian would not be off television for long, however.<\/p>\n Khan announced his purchase of the Ring of Honor brand in March of 2022, and Christian would soon find a home there. He would debut in AEW on March 22 of that year on AEW Dark<\/em>, defeating Rohit Raju in his first appearance. He would go on to become a staple of ROH programming over the last four years, forming his tag team The Swirl with Johnson (who has been under AEW contract for several years now) in early 2025. <\/p>\n In addition to Ring of Honor and New Japan, Christian also has found success in Gamechanger Pro Wrestling. He won the company’s world title at Cage Of Survival 2 <\/em>in 2023, and would hold the championship for 356 days before being stripped of the belt in May of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n This article was originally published on www.si.com\/fannation\/wrestling as Tony Khan Reveals Newest AEW Signing. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After nearly four years of working for Tony Khan, one of the company’s highest flyers has finally gotten his All Elite graphic. Blake Christian has sporadically appeared on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Christian’s long road to AEW<\/h2>\n
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