Kris Statlander Says Winning AEW Women’s Title Makes Everything She’s Gone Through Worth It

As previously reported, Kris Statlander is the new AEW Women’s World Champion, winning the belt earlier today at All Out. During the post show media scrum (via Fightful), Statlander spoke about finally getting to the top of the women’s division and what the achievement means to her.

She said: “It’s been a very up-and-down journey for me. I feel like there were so many opportunities where maybe I had the chance to be the first early on, but I was derailed by my knee injury. I thought, ‘Oh, maybe I’ll come back and be the first person to do this.’ Then, I get injured and time passes by, and other people step up and take that position. It’s very much been, not hurtful, but disheartening, having to be like, ‘Something out of my control stopped me from having that historic moment.’ To now finally have something to my name, ‘I’m the first ever to do this’ it makes all those injuries, all those hard times, all the ups and downs so worth it. I worked unbelievably hard to be in this position that I’m in today. To have that title means more than I could imagine. Wrestling is insane.“