Billie Starkz on Why She Opted to Sign With AEW

– During the post-show media scrum for last night’s ROH Final Battle event, wrestler Billie Starkz discussed her main event loss against ROH Women’s World Champion Athena. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Billie Starkz on signing with AEW before she graduated: “I’m going to be honest. I could have done anything with my life. I had a 4.6 GPA in high school and now I’m doing college because I think you should have a brain no matter what career you’re in. I chose AEW, truly for my own benefit. I had many options in high school, which was crazy. I did graduate before signing a contract. I don’t know if anybody knows that information, but I signed a contract while I still hadn’t graduated high school, which is crazy.”

On why she chose to sign with AEW: “I did choose to come to AEW because it gave me the freedom I wanted and I wanted to grow on my own and say I did this by myself. AEW has such an amazing roster of women that I don’t think get the credit they deserve. Athena has been wrestling for over a decade. Toni has been all over the world doing phenomenal things. We have new talent coming in like Mariah May, who is doing phenomenal work. I have so many people here that I would love the opportunity to wrestle and work with. I wouldn’t have the opportunity to wrestle anywhere else.”