The first choice of career for Britt Baker was her profession of a dentist. It were a few specific WWE stars that made her chose wrestling as an alternate path. The AEW women’s world champion recently made an appearance on Throwing Down with Renee Paquette & Miesha Tate. She confirmed during the interview that WWE had shown interest in signing her after she had made her AEW debut.
Speaking of WWE, Baker also revealed what actually motivated her to pursue a career in professional wrestling in the first place. She said that the matches among the four horsewomen in NXT were her inspiration:
“When I first started training, when I first said this is something I wanted to do while I’m in dental school, what really motivated me was when I started watching the Sasha, Bayley, Becky, and Charlotte matches that were happening on NXT at the time. It’s crazy because we are now, ‘competing against each other.’ Those are my idols. Those were the girls I enjoyed watching.”
Britt Baker also admitted that her original goal was to get to WWE because there was no AEW at the time. She recalled her WWE tryout alongside people like Bianca Belair and Lacey Evans when she was still in the first year of her dental college. However, the then talent development director Canyon Cemen told her to complete her dentist degree first and the rest is history.
The female star enrolled in the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine in 2014 and graduated in May 2018. She started her wrestling training the same year from the International Wrestling Cartel. She made her professional wrestling debut in an IWC event in 2015. Baker made her AEW debut at Double or Nothing in May 2019.
