AEW Women's World Champion Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. recently made an appearance on the Talk Is Jericho podcast, where she spoke about how she was only given a tryout by the WWE due to her looks as well as how she felt she was getting signed, along with Lacey Evans and Bianca Belair, but Canyon Ceman spoke to her at the end of the tryout and rejected her because of her career in dentistry.
Britt Baker said:
“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.”
AEW Women's World Champion Britt Baker also talked about how being rejected by the WWE was actually a positive thing and how Canyon Ceman would remain in contact with her on a regular basis.
Britt Baker said:
“But I owe him the world because I would have left dental school in a heartbeat to go to WWE.” “Because I was young, dumb, and I was like, ‘I’m going to be NXT Women’s Champion,’ like that would have got me far, right? He stayed in touch with me every few months after that. Like, ‘let me know when you finish dental school, send me your matches,’ he always kept up with me.”
You can check out Britt Baker's full comments at this link. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
