Kris Statlander has an interesting take on her wrestling fandom, or lack thereof.
AEW Women’s World Champion Kris Statlander was a recent guest on The Ringer Wrestling Show. When asked about her fandom, Statlander explained why she never considered herself a wrestling fan, but believes she’s more of a fan now than she used to be.
“I’m much more of a fan of wrestling now than I was. I don’t really watch it that often unless it’s like big shows. And obviously, my job, unless it’s AEW. I do see myself more as an athlete, or that’s how I try to talk to myself when I’m not at work, when I’m at home, and I need to focus on nutrition and training and stuff like that … I don’t like to consider myself a wrestling fan because people who are just wrestling fans hate wrestling more than anything.
“So I didn’t want to be a pro wrestler. I didn’t know what wrestling was until I started training … I was very much just like, oh, we’ll see what happens. We’ll see where I go with this. I never really had the goal to get signed or to win a belt or anything like that. It was something fun for me to do that was physical, and then I ended up being pretty good at it, and here I am now. But I feel like I was weird and I was very awkward, socially awkward.” [H/T: Wrestling Inc.]
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Statlander is scheduled to team up with Jamie Hayter next week to take on the Sisters of Sin at AEW Collision: Winter is Coming at a special time.
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