Thekla on potentially joining WWE: “I didn’t love the idea of not doing things my way – I’m not great with authority”
While speaking to Chris Jericho, AEW star Thekla commented on why she ended up with AEW instead of WWE…
“I had always told my friends back when AEW first started, I was like, ‘Hey guys, just so you know, this is where I’m going to be at some point.’ So, just heads up. So then my cocky attitude kind of led me also to be like, ‘you gotta follow up on that one.’
When I first started watching WWE and learning about how things are done over there, I think generally I didn’t love the idea of not doing things my way. Everybody knows that you gotta drop your name and have to do whatever somebody tells you. I’m not great with authority.
So when AEW started, I thought, okay, something new. I love a good underdog, and I just liked the melting pot of people who started there at the beginning. It just had more of a punk feel and more of a fresh feel. I was like that’s probably a good place for me at some point.
I was super green at the time still, so it was a far future type of thing, but I just had a good feeling about it. It’s probably for me.”