Former WWE star and a former WWE NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon who is currently going by the name of Athena in AEW recently looked back at her AEW debut and talked about working as a babyface in her early days.
Athena started her professional wrestling career back in 2007 and she worked on the independent circuit for quite a while. She worked on various professional wrestling promotions including the likes of Ring of Honor and Shimmer. She was a huge star on the independent circuit.
Athena Remembers Debuting As A Babyface In AEW
In 2015 she was signed by WWE and she started working on the NXT which was the Development Territory of WWE. She was started to be treated as a main event star instantly upon joining the promotion. She won the NXT Women’s Championship one time and the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship one time as well.
In 2018 she was promoted to the main roster for the first time in a career. But her main roasted Run did not work out pretty well. She was sent back to the NXT back in 2021 once again and she captured the NXT Women’s Tag Team titles along with Shotzi Blackhart.
But unfortunately he became a victim of the releasing spree of WWE and on the same year she was released. In 2022 she signed for AEW and returned to the independent circuit as well. Recently, she changed her wrestling style to hard hitter and it is receiving massive criticism from the fans.
Ember Moon who is currently going by the name of Athena in AEW recently spoke to Renee Paquette on The Sessions podcast where she looked back at her AEW debut and talked about working as a babyface in her early days. He said;
“When I full boar got here (AEW), I was still the good guy, I still had a couple of really good promos in there with Jade (Cargill) and then it became, okay, thank you for that. We’ll call you when we have something but, here’s Dark and then it became, okay — the entire time I was like, what can I do?
“And I just felt lost for a while. I was like, no one’s telling me I’m doing a bad job. Everyone’s like, ‘You’re great! You’re doing great!’ And I was like, why? What is happening? And it’s almost a little bit of that WWE P.T.S.D. that seeps in of like, am I gonna be in catering for four months? Oh my God!
“The benefit is I love the fact that when I come to work, I always have something to do whether it’d be Dark, Dark: Elevation, Rampage, whatever. I love that about this job because I don’t know if I can mentally come to work and not do anything. That would probably kill me more than anything else.”
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