Kris Statlander Says She Was ‘Weirdly Calm’ On The Day Of Her AEW Women’s World Title Win

Kris Statlander reflects on winning the AEW Women’s World Championship.

At AEW All Out 2025 late last month, Kris would feature as one of three women challenging the AEW Women’s World Champion Toni Storm for the championship. In the end, Statlander would shockingly score the victory, pinning Toni Storm after using a seatbelt rollup to trap Storm’s shoulders to the mat.

While speaking on the Close Up With Renee Paquette in a new interview, Kris Statlander spoke about how she felt the day of her title win.

“I mean, I was weirdly very calm that day. I don’t know why. I feel like maybe it’s because I knew that I was, it’s been four years since the last title match that I had and, or the Women’s World Championship title match that I had. I think I knew in myself that I had been preparing for this moment for so long that I, before I even stepped out there, I knew what I was ready to accomplish. I knew that it was my turn to, take the throne, and I just felt so at peace knowing that I felt like I finally had reached my turn. I had saw some quote that was actually about me finally winning and they had said something like, I had proven that what’s delayed is not always denied, and I was like that really is very true because I always knew that like, just because of my injuries, just because of things happening the way they did. Like I knew that that never meant that I wasn’t supposed to be where I am now. It just, I, and I’ve always been an advocate for saying that, like, I don’t think I would have been the wrestler that I am today had I not gone through those injuries. So I truly just feel like almost at peace knowing that this is where I’ve been the whole- where I was supposed to be the whole time.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Harley Cameron noted that Statlander has been a fantastic friend since ‘day one’. You can read more about that here.

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