8 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For AEW

7. Dr. Britt Baker

At time of writing, Tony Khan is doing that thing again. He’s talking up Dr. Britt Baker as a great wrestling star who he loves and hopes to have back. He did it with Ricky Starks. Ricky Starks is now in NXT as Ricky Saints.

Baker very obviously loved working for AEW for those first few years. She was in her element as a heel who had become entitled by the fact that the early phase of the women’s division was a vehicle for her talents. Across 2020 and 2021, she was in awesome form - uneven in the ring with very high peaks, but relentlessly hilarious as a sardonic egomaniac.

Then, the backstage reports emerged. A very long-winded game of “Am I The Asshole?” played out between Baker and Thunder Rosa. Rosa’s professionalism was called into question, but the narrative shifted in her favour long after the shoot feud dropped out of the news cycle. Increasingly, Baker cut an isolated figure; by 2024, after making her return from what seemed like a genuinely awful spell on the injury list, she was a sporadic presence. It felt like she no longer fit in; she wasn’t as funny nor as magnetic as she used to be, and the overall match quality in the division had improved in her absence.

Then, more reports emerged, and while there’s two sides to every story etc., she seemed to be making fewer and fewer friends. Baker defeated Serena Deeb on October 2, 2024. On November 13, she defeated Penelope Ford, only to be confronted by…Serena Deeb. Didn’t we just do that?

“Nobody cares,” Baker infamously said into the camera.

She was right. The audience didn’t care, and gauging by the admittedly flawed metric of her body language - Baker would do this dismissive bit generally - she didn’t care, either.