Britt Baker Admits She Was Stunned Over Newest T-Shirt Backlash

Britt Baker believes there could be no subject together with her present t-shirt if it have been Chris Jericho on it as a substitute.

All Elite Wrestling‘s Britt Baker not too long ago sat down with Robin Lundberg of Sports activities Illustrated to debate all kinds of topics. When requested concerning the on-line backlash concerning her newest t-shirt, which options her face with a black eye that she received within the ring in opposition to The Outcasts, Baker admitted she was very stunned by the response.

“I used to be very stunned. After I posted the image of my black eye on social media, it received virtually 100,000 likes [and comments saying] that I’m robust and I’m a badass and, ‘Wow, this lady, she’s robust.’ It was empowering,” Britt Baker mentioned. “However then when it went on a shirt, it was actually problematic, and that was so complicated to me. As a result of why? If I’m on a shirt with a black eye, why does that make me weak? Why does that make me a sufferer?

“But when a person, or Chris Jericho, had a black eye, they’d be robust they usually’d be a badass. To me, it’s exhibiting the interior narrative that persons are saying about ladies—and that’s that we’re not as robust or as robust as the lads, and that’s the actual downside right here. It’s not a black eye on a T-shirt.

“Generally I do get damage. I’ve damaged my leg, wrist, nostril—and guess what? Now I’ve a black eye and I signed up for that. I’ve truly been telling the make-up artist, ‘Don’t cowl up my black eye.’ As a result of I believe it’s empowering as a result of I’m robust. It is best to see the opposite lady.”

Regardless of all the net controversy surrounding the shirt, Bryan Alvarez of The Wrestling Observer is reporting that the shirt was AEW’s highest-selling merchandise merchandise final weekend when it was launched. 

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