1. Kris Statlander is signed to All Elite Wrestling, where she performs under the ring name Kris Statlander and is a former one-time AEW TBS Champion.
25 Facts About Kris Statlander
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Kris Statlander's father is a car mechanic and her mother is a high school music teacher.
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Kris Statlander attended college in New Jersey, but left after one year to train as a stunt double at Hollywood Stunts in Brooklyn, New York.
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Kris Statlander began her professional wrestling training under Pat Buck and Brian Myers at the Create A Pro Wrestling Academy in Hicksville, New York in 2016.
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Kris Statlander later became the first female graduate of the academy.
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Kris Statlander made her professional wrestling debut in November 2016, initially under the ring name "Liza Verio".
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Kris Statlander made an appearance for WWE on an episode of SmackDown Live that aired on April 9,2019, teaming with Karissa, named "The Brooklyn Belles", in a losing effort against the then-WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Billie Kay and Peyton Royce.
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Kris Statlander made her debut for All Elite Wrestling on November 19,2019, competing in a tag team match alongside Big Swole against Riho and Britt Baker on Dark, where Kris Statlander and Swole were defeated.
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Kris Statlander competed against Riho for the AEW Women's World title on the January 8,2020, episode of Dynamite, where she was defeated due to interferences by Brandi Rhodes, Awesome Kong, Mel, and the debuting Luther.
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Kris Statlander received another opportunity to compete for the title on February 29,2020, at Revolution, this time against new champion Nyla Rose, where she was defeated.
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In June 2020, Kris Statlander suffered an ACL injury in her left leg during an episode of Dynamite.
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Kris Statlander returned from injury alongside Trent Beretta on March 31,2021, helping Chuck Taylor and Orange Cassidy defeat Miro and Kip Sabian on Dynamite.
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Kris Statlander returned at Double or Nothing in May 2023, appearing after a match between then-AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill and Taya Valkyrie in which Cargill retained her title.
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Kris Statlander answered Cargill's open challenge to an impromptu match and won, ending Cargill's 60-match undefeated streak and obtaining the AEW TBS Championship.
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Kris Statlander soon began a feud with Julia Hart, which involved Skye Blue and Willow Nightingale, which led to a match at WrestleDream against Hart, in which Kris Statlander successfully defended the AEW TBS Championship.
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At Full Gear Kris Statlander lost the AEW TBS Championship to Hart, in a match involving Skye Blue, which ended when Hart pinned Blue, ending her reign at 174 days.
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Moments later, on the ramp Kris Statlander attacked Nightingale and aligned herself with Hathaway , revealing the prior events to be a ruse.
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At the event, Kris Statlander was unable to regain the title.
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Kris Statlander originally employed an alien gimmick, which she attributed to her being "a big science nerd".
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Kris Statlander changed her gimmick in 2022 since she felt that with the previous gimmick "I was never really being fully taken seriously", calling the previous character as "too fun, too lovable, I guess, too goofy and easygoing".
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Kris Statlander was formerly in a relationship with independent wrestler Mason Burnett, who is best known as Caleb Konley.
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Kris Statlander has a Shiba Inu named Dino, which resides with Stadtlander's parents on Long Island.
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Kris Statlander resided in Charlotte, North Carolina with Burnett but has since moved into a separate house in the Charlotte area following their break up.
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Kris Statlander appeared as an uncredited stuntwoman extra in the series finale of MTV's Ladylike in 2016.