Britt Baker has been one of the faces at the forefront of the women’s division in All Elite Wrestling ever since the inception of the company, and she’s really come into her own over the last few years. Currently Britt Baker is the AEW Women’s Champion, but there was once a time when she was trying to get signed by WWE.
During an appearance on Talk Is Jericho, Britt Baker explained that she was hopeful after she received a tryout with WWE, but Canyon Ceman did not sign her because she had just started dental school.
“I had a tryout, I was fresh out of training. They gave me a tryout solely based on my looks, ‘oh, this is a cute girl.’ I got put in a group after the training was all done, bumps and rolls. We can’t even walk by the end of the tryout. It was me, Lacey Evans, and Bianca were the females, in Orlando. It was all these extras, they were like testing our range of motion. We were like, ‘holy sh*t, we are getting signed.’ So we are celebrating, and I still talk to those girls all the time.
“But, Canyon Ceman, at the time, he was like the gatekeeper for independent wrestlers to get into NXT. He pulled me aside at the end of the tryout. And he was like, ‘you know, you’ve just started dental school. As a father, I have a hard time pulling you from a professional degree.’ My heart dropped.”
Britt Baker went on to say that she owes Canyon Ceman because she would have left dental school to join WWE. She also noted that Ceman kept in touch with her and asked her to send in her matches following her tryout.
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