AEW‘s Kris Statlander says she almost had a pizza-themed name for her WWE debut in 2019.
Former AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander was the recent guest on the INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet podcast. During the conversation, she opened up about her WWE debut in 2019 before she arrived in Tony Khan’s promotion the same year. She made a one-off appearance on the April 9, 2019, episode of SmackDown, teaming with Elektra Lopez to compete against the IIconics for the Women’s Tag Team Championship.
She and Lopez competed as the Brooklyn Belles under the names Kristen and Karissa and lost to Billie Kay and Peyton Royce in a 3-minute match. However, Kris Statlander revealed that their tag team name was originally supposed to be the Brooklyn Pizza Connection, and their names were supposed to be Saucy and Cheesy, but she didn’t know which one would’ve been hers.
“Well, originally the team name was supposed to be the Brooklyn Pizza Connection, and we were supposed to be named Saucy and Cheesy,” Kris Statlander revealed.
When asked which name was hers, Kris Statlander said, “I don’t know, we never got that far, but those were the options. Then it was the Brooklyn Belles, and then just used our first names. But I was like, that would have been iconic to have been either saucy or cheesy, and my only match there was a tag title match. So what a way to go, to go in and go out right away. Yeah. But then now I have tag titles at AEW to go for, and maybe I’ll be Saucy or Cheesy or Garlic or Oregano, something like that.”
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