Charlotte Flair Gave Britt Baker Advice On Dealing With Trolls

Britt Baker became the face of the AEW Women’s Division when she rose to prominence as a heel and the Women’s Championship during the pandemic. Now she’s being compared to one of the top women superstars in WWE by fans.

While speaking to Swerve Strickland & Monteasy on Swerve City, Baker was asked about being the face of the division and comparisons to Charlotte Flair by the fans. She doesn’t mind it and that drives her to be the best. Although she was told to not listen to Twitter for feedback and criticism.

I do consider myself the face of the women’s division. That’s a job and that’s a priority. Me doing what I do at TV every week, me being on TV is a presence. I’m one of the top stars in the division, but I’m doing all these outside things that are given to me and hitting home runs left and right. If you send me to Comic Cons, not only am I going, but I’m gonna network and meet this person and that person and be like, ‘Have you heard of AEW? Let me tell you about this.’ Next thing you know, we have John Kreese (Martin Kove) from Cobra Kai showing up at AEW Dynamite. I’m taking advantage of every single opportunity.

I do get compared to Charlotte all the time on Twitter. For me, okay cool, one of the best women’s wrestlers of all time. You’re so mean for calling me that. People don’t understand the constant pressure that comes with all the hate that you get. We are people. On Twitter, they dehumanize us, ‘Oh, we’re just wrestling characters,’ but we’re not, we’re people. This is our job and we want to be good at our job. You’re doing everything you can to not mess up, but sometimes you still might. The next day, you’re working ten times harder to make sure you’re not making the same mistakes because we’re human.”

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“Being the face of the division, you’re under a microscope. No matter what you’re doing, what you’re saying, everyone has you under a microscope and they are looking for any second to twist and turn your words. To watch a match, and all of a sudden they know it all. ‘Oh, I see what happened there. Britt did this wrong because she did that wrong and told Tony (Khan) this, this and this. That’s why this happened.’ No, it’s not. This was written three weeks ago. You can’t let that get in your brain or you will drive yourself insane, because I have. It’s taken talking to people like Chris Jericho, Tony Schiavone, and Tony Khan to say, ‘Do not listen to Twitter. Get it out of your head. It’s not real. Listen to your co-workers and peers and people you look up to in wrestling. Listen to the fans.'”

Baker also circled back to Charlotte Flair. She recalled Flair giving her advice about dealing with online critics.

“Back to Charlotte, her and I have chatted, and she has given me so much great advice just to get through this. She’s given me solid advice to just stay true to what you know is true. Don’t worry about the narratives that fans are creating or what they want to be true because you know what’s going on and what you’re working with. She’s been fantastic to me,” she said.

Flair being generous with her advice to Baker was great, since it’s best to stay true to herself and not worry about the narratives. That’s probably the best advice anyone in pro wrestling to receive in order to evolve in his or her career in the business. Only time will tell if Flair and Baker ever go toe-to-toe in the ring, but they are, at least, on speaking terms.

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