AEW President Tony Khan is reportedly “fed up” with Dr. Britt Baker, DMD.
Baker hasn’t wrestled for AEW since defeating Penelope Ford on the November 13, 2024, episode of Dynamite. According to comments made by Wade Keller of PW Torch, she might be done with the company.
Keller said (transcriptions via WrestlePurists):
“She might be done with AEW. At least the feeling I’m getting from talking to people in AEW is Tony Khan might have her in the same category as some other wrestlers where they just don’t get phone calls and don’t get called in to show up. There is a lot of frustration with her.
I’m told – and I’ve heard this pretty consistently – she’s wildly unpopular in the women’s locker room.”
Baker has been at the center of backstage drama in AEW multiple times in recent years. Most recently, she was reportedly fined and suspended by AEW’s disciplinary committee following a backstage incident involving MJF and his partner, Alicia Atout. Fightful would later report that Baker was said to have “exercised frustration” regarding MJF in the women’s locker room while Atout was present, leading to a confrontation.
Before the incident with MJF/Atout, Baker was also involved in conflict with Thunder Rosa, as documented on AEW All Access. This conflict culminated in Baker publicly criticizing Rosa for not defending the AEW Women’s World title while dealing with injuries in mid-2022.
There have also been reports that Baker and Jamie Hayter had a falling out backstage. Sean Ross Sapp mentioned this summer that the “ship had sailed interpersonally” between Baker and Hayter, and a match between the two likely would not take place.
According to Keller, there was another incident involving Baker recently.
Keller continued:
“There was a specific situation recently not counting the MJF situation where people just threw their hands up…It wasn’t like a huge deal but it was enough to sort of be the straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of just feeling like, ‘You know what? We’ve got a strong women’s division now compared to when she was on top and we don’t need to deal with her if she’s going to be this difficult to work with.’ So that’s where they are with her.”
Baker’s former partner of seven years, Adam Cole, told Sports Illustrated in October that the couple decided to call it quits. However, her split with Cole is not said to be a point of contention.
“And from what I’m hearing, at least the attitude right now at the moment, the belief is Tony Khan is fed up enough that he’s just gonna focus his TV time on others. I don’t know what that means in terms of her pay and her contract and it’s possible eventually things will change…At this point in asking around, you should not expect to see her back imminently.”
— Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. (@RealBrittBaker) August 6, 2024