Jamie Hayter Opens Up About Wrestling Through Pain As AEW Women’s Champion

Jamie Hayter discusses wrestling through immense pain while she was the AEW Women’s World Champion.

Jamie Hayter took a lot of time off from wrestling prior to AEW All In: London 2024. While she was the AEW Women’s World Champion, she was battling through a great deal of pain from accumulated injuries. Now, she’s opening up about how difficult that was.

Ahead of the AEW WrestleDream 2025, Jamie Hayter spoke with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful. During the discussion,

Jamie Hayter opened up about how difficult it was for her to wrestle through injury during her time as champion. She said she wouldn’t wish that pain on her worst enemy.

“Yeah, it was really bad. It was so bad I can’t even explain to you how painful it was. I genuinely wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy, because it — just being in pain all the time, just uncomfortable. It just made life really not fun.

“I think if you’re going to be a fighting champion, which is what I really want it to be like, who wouldn’t, you know? It just wouldn’t have been fair. I think it’s easy, just to be like, ‘I know my body and I know when I can’t do something and when I can’t perform or do what I want to do, or even just live life normally.’ That was it, just, I couldn’t at that point, and I was like, ‘I just have to just stop it here.’ It just wasn’t fun. I didn’t think that it would be fair to attempt to perform; not fair to the company, and also not fair to myself. Why would I want to put my body through that and just make it worse? Then I would have had to have been off for way longer than I was… it sucked. It wasn’t fun. But again, I don’t necessarily look back at that time in a bad way.”

Fans can check out the full card for AEW WrestleDream, where Jamie will take on Thekla, here.

Check out the full interview with Jamie Hayter embedded above.