Kris Statlander Compares Original AEW Women’s Locker Room To Current One

In an interview with Renee Paquette for Close Up (via Fightful), Kris Statlander compared the drive of the current women’s locker room in AEW to the one that was there when the company first started. Statlander is one of the wrestlers that’s been with the company since the beginning.

She said: “I see a lot more hunger and drive. I feel like once when AEW first started, given I wasn’t there initially at the day one, but I was there with- I was like a few weeks behind. I feel like a lot of people were very… not relaxed, but people can get very like complacent with being like, I have the job, I’m where I need to be at. It takes a lot of hard work to get to that position, to get to the top, and I understand wanting to calm down and relax and be like, ‘I did it, I made it’, but we never truly make it. It’s nothing- there’s always so much more to accomplish. Sure, I was the first ever person to be TBS champion and the world champion. But what if I want to be the first ever two-time TBS champion? What if I want to be the first ever to hold both of them at the same time? There’s so much more than that. But there’s just so many more goals that you can think of and accomplish, and in a world that’s constantly changing, it’s a little disheartening to see some people not necessarily, not that they don’t care, but to see that you put so much effort into it and see that not everybody always, and it’s not just the women, it’s everyone across the board with all aspects of every single job ever. It’s so disheartening to be like, I care so much about something that no one else seems to care about. I don’t wanna be isolated for caring so much. But I feel like today with the roster that we have now, everyone just wants so much success and just to give such an amazing product to the world, and it’s so fulfilling to be a part of it now. And to have seen it got to this point where we have everything that we need and more, honestly.”