Current AEW Women’s World Champion Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, joined Renee Paquette and Miesha Tate on the “Throwing Down” podcast. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Britt Baker was asked who she looked up to that made her want to get into wrestling:
“When I first started training, when I first said this is something I wanted to do while I’m in dental school, what really motivated me was when I started watching the Sasha, Bayley, Beckey, and Charlotte matches that were happening on NXT at the time. It’s crazy because we are now, ‘competing against each other.’ Those are my idols. Those were the girls I enjoyed watching. I think with women’s wrestling, what you find is a trend that the most successful women are the ones that have the utmost confidence in themselves and who they are as a character. One way or the other, whether you’re a good guy or a bad guy, you just own it and you bring that bad b*tch energy one way or the other. I think those girls, to me, are the ones that I want to watch. That’s what I try to portray as myself and my character when I come out. I think that’s been a lot of my success.”
Britt was asked if she wanted to be part of WWE:
“Obviously originally there was no AEW so everybody wanted to go to WWE. That was the dream. I had a tryout with WWE, and in my tryout was Bianca and Lacey. There was a small group of us that got picked to do this secondary physical where it was like, ‘Oh man, we’re all getting signed. This is the crew.’ Then Canyon (Ceman) pulled me aside and said, ‘You know, as a father, I have a hard time pulling you from your academic career. You’re going to be a dentist. I want you to finish that. This was year one of dental school. My heart sunk because I was young, dumb, and ready to leave dental school in a heartbeat for WWE. Thank God I didn’t. Then AEW came along just as I was finishing dental school, and it was the perfect storm for me because I could still practice dentistry three days a week. I could travel, wrestle on TV, and grow my craft. To me, it’s not a question. Of course. Tony Khan, what’s up man? Let’s do this. It’s no secret because he’s already said it by now. The cat’s out of the bag. I’m not going to get in trouble. WWE was definitely poking the bear a little bit through him recently saying, ‘They are really interested in her.’ Without teetering the lines of contract tampering, they definitely let me know they had interest in me, but it wasn’t a mutual thing. I’m very happy in AEW. I’m very content and thankful for all the opportunities I’ve had there, and this is where I want to stay.”
