Kris Statlander Reflects On Street Fight With Willow Nightingale, Most Painful Moment

Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale a brutal Chicago Street Fight at AEW All Out 2024, and Statlander recently revealed the most painful moment. The two competed in the violent match at the 2024 PPV, a bout that Statlander ended up victorious in.

The match featured a number of brutal implements including light tubes and thumbtacks, with Statlander winning via a chain-assisted crossface. She spoke about the match on Insight With Chris Van Vliet and you can see the highlights below:

On the Most Painful Part Of the Match:

“I know what you’re expecting me to say, and you know what? This wasn’t a physical pain thing. This is an emotional pain thing. At one point in the match, we took out the chains where we tied ourselves to each other, and I tied hers to her, and I was having trouble tying mine to me, and I just head-butted her to kind of keep her down. And I was like, I’m so sorry, because that wasn’t an initial idea of something that might happen. So that was probably the worst thing that I did. I was like, Oh, I had to just keep you down. That wasn’t my favorite thing I’ve ever done, but you gotta eat up the time somehow, while I was struggling with my wrist. So that one probably hurt me the most emotionally.”

On the Overall Plan For the Match Going Into It:

“Yeah, I think we really wanted to just push the boundary of what we’ve been allowed to do. We got really lucky that we were able to do a light tube spot, because that’s not something with fans around and the glass. It’s very dangerous. But doing it on the stage and kind of away from the fans, that was a good way to kind of cover our bases. Also probably won’t be able to do that anytime in the future, just because it’s shatter risk, and we don’t want to put any fans in harm’s way at all.”