For the first time since FULL GEAR 2019, Emi Sakura will challenge for an All Elite Wrestling Championship, but where that was a shot at Riho’s AEW Women’s World Championship, this will be an opportunity to dethrone Kris Statlander as TBS Champion!
Statlander is coming off a tremendous victory over Ruby Soho at ALL OUT 2023, one that saw Toni Storm play spoiler to another Outcast member’s nefarious attempt to use the green spray paint as a weapon.
It was quite the physical affair, one that Statlander is certainly still feeling, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to sit back and rest on her laurels. Stat is a fighting champion, evidenced by the nine defenses over her 101 day reign, and isn’t going to rest until the wheels fall off. Seems like Kris learned a little something about the type of champion she wants to be from Orange Cassidy and his International Championship reign.
It’s been 18 months since the last time Statlander and Sakura locked up on DARK: ELEVATION #53, a bout won by Kris in four minutes and change; will this championship affair play out differently for the 28-year veteran or will it be Statlander who moves forward still TBS Champion?