Baker once again shares her thoughts about the All In 2024 match.
For the first time since AEW All In, Britt Baker will be in action. She is scheduled to compete against Serena Deeb at the Five Year Anniversary edition of Dynamite in her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Baker is making the media rounds and one of the outlets she chatted with was The Takedown on Sports Illustrated. Further reflecting on the match with Mercedes Moné, she thinks the placement on the card hurt it ‘a little bit.’ They followed Will Ospreay and MJF’s American/International Championship match.
It was such a surreal moment for me just to be able to be in the ring with — I’m sorry, she’ll always be Sasha Banks to me. Mercedes (Moné) is my competition, but Sasha is my idol and they just so happen to be the same person. Which is really cool. I definitely think match placement on that card hurt us a little bit, some might say a lot. It’s a long night. It’s a big crowd. They see a lot of wrestling and they get tired and I don’t blame them at all for that. And how many crazy, insanely talented matches were on that show? I mean, All In, every year has to be one of the best wrestling shows of the year. Every single year. I just think, how lucky am I that I got to wrestle someone who literally inspired me to be a professional wrestler? People talk about their idols, some people, their inspirations aren’t even living anymore. I got to wrestle mine in London at Wembley Stadium. You have to look at the positives and things like that. And like I said, there are days where you delete social media. And I had quite a few of those days because people, again, they make up stories and make up narratives. They think they know what’s happening in matches. They have no clue. They’re so wrong and you just wanna grab them and shake them and say shut the F up. You don’t know what you’re talking about. But you can’t do that. What you can do is delete the app, and basically, if I don’t see what someone’s saying, it’s not real. Perception is reality and if I don’t perceive the thing you’re saying, it’s not real to me.
It doesn’t help that her and I are both very polarizing wrestlers. I know that. She knows that. We have very, very dear diehard fans. We have just as many, if not double, triple the amount of haters. And at the end of the day, if people are talking about you, they’re talking about you. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. But unfortunately, buzz is buzz.
Elsewhere in the conversation, Baker dove into the growth of AEW’s women’s division. She remembers the days when she’d go to company President Tony Khan to inform him about certain female talents being free agents.
Ultimately, that’s what I’ve always wanted for AEW (women’s division to grow). That’s what I’ve been pushing for since day one. I want us to have the best women’s division in all of wrestling. You can’t do that by yourself. You have to have dance partners. You have to have an army if you’re gonna go to war. You can’t fight every battle by yourself. Early on, I was always nudging Tony (Khan), ‘Hey, this girl’s a free agent. Hey, look at this girl. Hey, look at that girl.’ We’re at a point now where we have so many talented girls, so many stars. Girls are just kind of thrown into matches with little to no heads-up and they just kill it because they’re stars. They’re prepared. They know how to handle the stress and the pressure. I think that’s really special and it speaks lot to our women’s division.
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