Heartbreaking Personal Update: AEW Star Maya World

× Maya World has been one of the most successful young stars in AEW this year. The 23-year old star made it to the finals of the 2026 Women's Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament. She recently opened up about a heartbreaking personal incident as she talked about her elder brother's recent passing.

Ad After her major success on AEW programming over the last few months, Maya World appeared on a local Virginia news channel WDBJ7. During her appearance, she talked about how she actually got into wrestling as a child because of her brother. "Honestly, like how everybody does, I was younger and my brother would play the games and I would be the annoying little sister like taking his controller and trying to play and we would be rewatching it when we shouldn't have been, whatever wrestling was on TV.

So it definitely started like that and then of course we'd do the wrestling and breaking furniture and that," she said. Ad Trending Maya's brother passed away tragically in a road accident last month. She talked about how big of a role he played in her career as a professional wrestler and how she dealt with his passing.

"Like I said, he just, ofcourse he got me started in it. And one of the things I regret is that I never got to tell him that I'm doing this because of you and I'm sure he knew... I've never had that..

kind of grief on my heart, I did lose my mom at a young age as well, I was three though. So I spent 20-23 of the last years with my brother, it definitely when that happened it definitely was something where I was like, I came to AEW to get my mind off of it... I couldn't just sit ...

and be in that mindset that he's gone." Ad Ad It's heartbreaking to hear about such a tragic incident from the life of such a young star like Maya World. Maya World lost to Mercedes Mone in the finals of the 2026 Women's Owen Hart Foundation Cup at AEW Forbidden Door Maya World made her AEW debut in February last year.

However, she started gaining widespread popularity just this year following her impressive campaign during the Women's Owen Hart Foundation Cup. She wasn't even originally supposed to be a part of the tournament. Ad Maya replaced Sareee who was originally announced as a participant in the Cup but couldn't compete due to injury.

She defeated Skye Blue in the Quarter-finals match at Dynamite: Summer Blockbuster and even defeated her mentor Athena in the semi-finals of the tournament. However, she lost to Mercedes Mone in the finals of the tournament at Forbidden Door.The future seems bright for Maya World in AEW.

It will be interesting to see what Tony Khan has planned for her next. × Was this article helpful? Thank You for feedback Get all the hottest wrestling news FIRST by clicking here Quick Links More from Sportskeeda Edited by Ishan Dubey Maya World has been one of the most successful young stars in AEW this year.

The 23-year old star made it to the finals of the 2026 Women's Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament. She recently opened up about a heartbreaking personal incident as she talked about her elder brother's recent passing. Ad After her major success on AEW programming over the last few months, Maya World appeared on a local Virginia news channel WDBJ7.

During her appearance, she talked about how she actually got into wrestling as a child because of her brother. "Honestly, like how everybody does, I was younger and my brother would play the games and I would be the annoying little sister like taking his controller and trying to play and we would be rewatching it when we shouldn't have been, whatever wrestling was on TV. So it definitely started like that and then of course we'd do the wrestling and breaking furniture and that," she said.

Ad Trending Maya's brother passed away tragically in a road accident last month. She talked about how big of a role he played in her career as a professional wrestler and how she dealt with his passing. "Like I said, he just, ofcourse he got me started in it.

And one of the things I regret is that I never got to tell him that I'm doing this because of you and I'm sure he knew... I've never had that.. kind of grief on my heart, I did lose my mom at a young age as well, I was three though.

So I spent 20-23 of the last years with my brother, it definitely when that happened it definitely was something where I was like, I came to AEW to get my mind off of it... I couldn't just sit ... and be in that mindset that he's gone."

Ad Ad It's heartbreaking to hear about such a tragic incident from the life of such a young star like Maya World. Maya World lost to Mercedes Mone in the finals of the 2026 Women's Owen Hart Foundation Cup at AEW Forbidden Door Maya World made her AEW debut in February last year. However, she started gaining widespread popularity just this year following her impressive campaign during the Women's Owen Hart Foundation Cup.

She wasn't even originally supposed to be a part of the tournament. Ad Maya replaced Sareee who was originally announced as a partic