Britt Baker became the first woman to get signed to the All Elite Wrestling promotion upon insistence by Brandy Rhodes. Tony Khan did no mistake with that signing since this woman went ahead to carry the load for the company’s women’s division from day one. Brandy is no longer around, but her suggested wrestler is still with the AEW and she is still going strong.
Being a wrestling fan, Britt Baker has been following storylines in WWE for a long time. There have been many stories where we hear wrestling personalities talking about storylines from the Attitude Era/Ruthless Aggression Era that got them glued to WWE TV. However, there’s this top AEW female wrestler who got the inspiration to make a transition into wrestling after watching a modern-day story.
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Britt Baker recently admitted that she watched one of the most popular storylines from the PG era of WWE and it got a fan of wrestling. During an interview session with The Ringer, The former AEW Women’s Champion recently talked about things such as her rivalry with Thunder Rosa, the women’s division of AEW, and more.
Speaking about how she became a fan of wrestling, Britt Baker revealed that Bryan Danielson fka Daniel Bryan’s WrestleMania XXX story was the one that forced her to get obsessed with wrestling in a big way,
“The first story line that made me immensely obsessed with wrestling and gave me the bug to want to do something like this and want to do this because of how the story made me feel, it was the Bryan Danielson storyline at WrestleMania XXX.”
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Britt Baker revisited the YES movement story of Daniel Bryan
On that night in the main event of the 2014 edition of Wrestlemania, Bryan defeated Batista and Randy Orton in the main event of WrestleMania XXX to become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion in a Triple Threat. That night also marked the culmination of the Yes movement that took WWE over. Per the words of Britt Baker, it was the coolest thing that she’d ever experienced in pro wrestling,
“How the fans really decided the storyline. To me, that was one of the coolest things in the world—that the entire wrestling universe got behind this one wrestler who was a massive underdog and should not have been in the spot he was in, but the fans made sure of it.”
Britt Baker also emphasized that pro-wrestling is unique since there is no other sport where fans can decide which superstar a company should force to go to the top. It was great to see an underdog like Bryan go to the top of the mountain from an underrated position.
