After beating Taya Valkyrie in their TBS Championship bout, and hopefully quieting her mouth for the time being, it’s time for Kris Statlander to move forward with her title reign as she aims to surpass the historic precedent set by Jade Cargill’s run as the first champion. With that in mind, Statlander has laid out another Open Challenge for this Saturday night on TNT, and it looks like Lady Frost has answered the challenge!
No strangers to one another after their HOUSE RULES: HUNTSVILLE title fight a month ago, these two women now have some familiarity with one another, and that is going to go a long way towards Frost being able to hang with Stat in this title fight. As for the defending champion, this will mark her sixth championship fight since besting Jade at DOUBLE OR NOTHING 2023, as well as her sixth bout since returning from that nasty injury that shelved Statlander for nine months. This is a competitor who has not taken it easy on herself, who has continuously tested herself against the best competition, and looks to be better than ever before!
It would be a major upset if Lady Frost, coming off a recent loss to Taya, found the key to stopping Statlander’s triumphant return to action, but if she does, it will skyrocket the AEW career of Lady Frost right to the top of the heap! Her stock will grow exponentially faster than she can blink, and everyone will come looking to take their shot at the newly crowned champ. If Statlander retains, the question is who will be the next woman to step up to the plate? We witnessed Hikaru Shida pick up a victory over Taya on Friday night’s edition of RAMPAGE, perhaps it is she who’s got eyes on adding a TBS Championship reign to her record-setting AEW Women’s World Championship one. Should Statlander emerge as champ, we will have to wait and see who answers the next Open Challenge!