4 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW Dark (Feb 18)

Downs...

2. Alien Stuff

Kris Statlander
AEW

Kris Statlander is a fantastic professional wrestler with a wonderful future between the ropes and the ideal long-term building block for AEW's women's division, but her gimmick is as false as anything peddled by the maligned Nightmare Collective and Dark Order.

Statlander is 'The Galaxy's Greatest Alien' in a promotion trumpeting a supposed "real sport feel." It's impossible to buy into such a gimmick in this specific environment and that Excalibur and Taz spent so long talking about Statlander's species, her not knowing her "Earth age," and her adaption to human life was daft. We are to take this character as an actual alien. That won't fly here, unfortunately, and needs tweaking.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for eight years and is currently WhatCulture's Wrestling Channel Manager. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.