In a recent interview on the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Ari Daivari discussed several topics, including the formation of The Trustbusters faction on AEW programming, and revealed that he is signed to a full-time deal with the company.

“If some people remember, on a few episodes of AEW Dark, I was wrestling with another guy named Invictus Khash, he’s actually from your area Aubrey, the Seattle area, very good wrestler, he’s a fellow Persian man, just like me, we kind of got put together randomly as a tag team and we’re doing a couple of Dark’s together and it was going great, I actually really enjoyed tagging with him, he’s a bright, young kid. He’s from Iran originally, he speaks very good Farsi, which is kind of cool, I thought that was a cool thing going for us, and then, just extremely talented in-ring, but apparently Tony Khan wasn’t really feeling that for me and I showed up one day and I found out that I’m tagging with a guy named Slim J, I said okay, that’s interesting and that day, me and Khash actually had matching gear, because we tagged a few times together, we finally went and got matching gear, like alright, we’re going to be a tag team, let’s do this for real and I showed up and I said Slim J, where have I heard that name before and I was like, alright whatever, and then he comes up to me and he’s like, hey I’m Slim, we’re working together and I’m like okay, this is interesting. Me and Khash have singles matches and then, Tony shows up later and I kind of talk to him a little bit and he just lays this whole idea on the line for me with The Trustbusters and Parker Boudreaux and he has all these ideas for other members, which turned out to be Sonny Kiss and VSK, and it all just kind of happened one day, but that’s what led to me getting my full-time job, so you know, that’s what the boss wants, that’s what the boss gets.

I think it’s always been a very simple thing in wrestling, and I really enjoyed tagging with Khash, and who knows, somewhere in the future, maybe he can come join The Trustbusters, but it was just Tony’s idea, something he wanted to do and it was just kind of presented to me, and the funny thing was, a lot of it was just kind of some last minute stuff, just hey, this is what I want you to talk about, this is your new name, you’re in The Trustbusters, and this was like minutes before I was about to go out there and part of me took it as a test. I get all this information and he’s like alright, go do it and I go like, no problem, I’m going to knock this out of the f***ing park first try, and I feel like I did and I got to the back and he was like, hell yeah, that’s exactly what I wanted, let’s f***ing go.

That was the other thing too, Tony started laying out all this creative and you know, this is what we want to do wit this and this guy, and go on and on and this is before I was working full-time with AEW, and I remember, as he was laying all of this stuff out, in my head I am like, I hope this is coming with a job, because this is a lot of creative. He had a lot of plans he is telling me, and things he wants to see, so the whole time he was talking, I just kept going like, I think a job is coming out of this, and I really hope it is, and then later that day, that’s when he made the offer and everything so it was a good day, good day in Florida.”

The interview is available in full at this link.