Willow Nightingale isn’t afraid to get physical with the men and women of the AEW roster.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Willow Nightingale recently sat down with Lyric Swinton of Blavity. When asked how it felt to be involved in this year’s Anarchy in the Arena match, Nightingale called it a really big moment in her career.
“I think Anarchy In The Arena, along with really any big moment in my career, you don’t realize the gravity of it until you’re on the other side. Looking around the room and seeing who I was teaming with was mind-boggling,” Willow Nightingale said. “I saw on Twitter somebody referred to us as, if AEW had assembled their Avengers, this is the team that they would’ve picked. And I was like, that’s crazy.
“To look around at people like that — [Samoa] Joe, Kenny [Omega], really everyone on the team. When you look around and think about how these are people that you’ve admired for years, and then you’re like, oh, but I am not just looking up to them. I am their peer.
“I am just as deserving of being here as they are. But I still do obviously know that they’re so much more experienced than I and have so much more knowledge to hand down to me. In those weeks when I was working with the guys, I was just trying to absorb as much as possible. Whether that just be the way that they command themselves. Or the way that they speak to other people, the way that they view and present themselves. I felt like that was a very important thing that I tried to pick up on.
“Because in women’s wrestling, now it’s changing a little bit, where you will see women having much longer careers. But when you’re looking at veterans of wrestling for 20-plus years, you don’t come across that in other women very often. You’re not seeing it in the locker room — how somebody with that much experience under their belt presents and carries themselves.”
Will there be more intergender wrestling in AEW?
When asked about the possibility of more intergender matches taking place in AEW, Nightingale said it would mean a lot to have more of it in the company.
“The first time I felt like I really kind of got to mix it up was when I tagged with Swerve [Strickland] against Marina and Mox to the point that they both put hands on us as well, which I think was the thing that really shattered down that barrier, made the little crack to have it open up for Anarchy In The Arena,” Willow Nightingale said. “It’s something that I wear with pride to be one of the people that really helped push the boundaries.
“There are so many people that paved the way for intergender wrestling to happen on television in such a way. I can’t say that I know what’s going to happen or that it will happen. But personally, having been any part of it, if it does happen, it would be really cool. It would mean a lot.”
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