AEW TBS Champion Kris Statlander has slammed online critics of AEW’s women’s division.
Statlander is set to defend her title against Ruby Soho at AEW All Out in Chicago on Sunday night and spoke out at detractors in a fiery interview ahead of the much anticipated event.
In a conversation captured by Knockouts and 3 Counts, Statlander raced to the defence of the division and claimed that much of the criticism aimed at the Superstars online was unfair:
“I’d say, I’d like to see them get in the ring and try and do anything we’ve done. Of course, not everyone is going to like everything. Maybe not everyone works well together, but not everyone has chemistry with everyone. I think it’s unfair, a lot of what we see online is based off small clips, not the whole match.
You don’t know what goes into putting a match together, having a match, being a wrestler, all the stress we deal with, all the criticism we get online from people who don’t know us, we don’t know them, and people will tell us to ‘kill ourselves’ or that they hate us or that we should get fired from a job we love doing because maybe we had a bit of an off-night.
I wish people would take into consideration that, yes, we are on television and we are wrestlers, but we are people”.
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Statlander, who defeated Jade Cargill for the AEW TBS Championship after a shock return at AEW Double Or Nothing in May, would go on to state her disappointment that the AEW women fear appearing on television:
“If we have an off night, we know it, we don’t need the entire internet to tell us that we didn’t have our best night. I wish some people would take into consideration that we’re doing our best.
We understand, we know we’re going to get chewed up and spit out, we all know it’s coming. It sucks we have that fear going onto TV.”
H/T: Fightful for the above transcription