While AEW has since grown into a successful promotion, Baker pointed out that when she became the first female signee of AEW, there were a lot of questions regarding how sustainable they could be. Ultimately though, Baker was unconcerned with all that, and more excited about the opportunity AEW presented.

“I didn’t really care about anything else beyond that, because at the time, I’m just an indie wrestler,” Baker said. “I’m a broke, recently graduated dental student. I just wanted some way to make money wrestling, and then also be a dentist. At the time I think about it, I didn’t even know if we were going to have a TV deal, and I also didn’t really care at the time.”

“For me, this was huge, just to be able to do anything, just to wrestle in arenas, that was huge. And I was excited for that. And then you look at how big this has grown into now,” Baker continued. “I mean, we are going to be in Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000+ people in one of the largest attended events in wrestling history. It’s so surreal, but then again, it’s taken all these jumps and hurdles and ups and downs, and it feels like it just happened overnight too. It feels like it’s just been a blur.”

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