Jade Cargill is gearing up to face one of the biggest challenges of her young career when she puts her TBS Championship on the line against Athena.
Athena was the latest guest on the Bleav in Pro Wrestling podcast to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about her current rivalry in All Elite Wrestling with TBS Champion Jade Cargill, Athena speaks about how important it is to tell stories in professional wrestling.
“Telling stories are so important to what we do as pro wrestlers. Right? Because that’s what gets people invested. And coming into this story with Jade Cargill, that means a lot to me. So I wanna put all of my effort, all of my emotion, all of my physical wellbeing into this. To make it good,” Athena said. “I don’t care that she’s six foot-whatever. Like, I don’t care. I’m gonna knock her flat on her ass. That’s what I do. You know? And like the one thing that is stayed true throughout my entire career is that, if there’s a challenge there, it doesn’t matter how many times I get knocked down. I’m gonna beat that challenge. And I don’t think people really know that about me as a person. I’ve had so many tryouts in the former life that I was like, nah, I’m kicking this door down baby. We’re gonna get there, right? We’re gonna get there. And then I finally got there. So like that’s just the type of person I am.”
Regardless of whether Athena defeats Cargill for the TBS Championship or not, she hopes that fans will look back upon their rivalry fondly in the years ahead as an epic rock battle between two of the best women in All Elite Wrestling.
“Even if I don’t kick her off the mountain because we all know it’s pro wrestling, right? I want people to remember what I did at the top of that mountain,” Athena said. “That we had this epic battle on top of Olympus and lightning was striking and angels were weeping and fire from Hell was blazing up. And I want it to be that. I want it to be this epic, like rock battle.”
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