Thekla hit it off when she made her AEW debut, quickly claiming the AEW Women’s World Championship and having a dominant run with the belt. His personality has always been a little off-kilter, and according to Thekla, this is something that Jeff Jarrett also picked up on.
during the interviewTMZ’s Inside The RingTekla was asked at AEW All In. About promoting his comeback in London and how he signed an upside-down spider crawling on a table in front of the commentators. I said, “Ah! That’s the best thing anyone has said to me today.”
He then added that he also spoke to Paul White afterwards, but unlike Jarrett, White was more upset by his antics and more concerned that he would spill his drink on them. “No, no, I know. I am a professional. I know it’s hard to believe sometimes, but I know what I’m doing out there,” Thekla said.
Tekla has often been asked about her character work, and she shared it he disagrees with the idea that professional wrestling is an artdespite being an artist in his spare time, expressing that it ends up being a “duh art project” as wrestlers blur the lines.
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