“AEW Dynamite’s” fifth anniversary show is scheduled to take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and one of its featured attractions will be the return of Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D to her hometown. Baker hasn’t been seen since her loss to Mercedes Mone at All In at the end of August, and many people have wondered what will be next for the former AEW Women’s World Champion, especially since her personal life, in-ring ability, and attitude backstage have have made headlines. While speaking to Fightful, Baker revealed that she hates seeing her name mentioned in false stories. 

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“I think what hurts me the most is when people run with rumors or concepts or ideas that are not true. If I sat here all day and fought off or batted down everything I’ve heard about myself that wasn’t true, I would spend my entire day on social media. I don’t do that, and I delete the app unless I have something to promote or it’s a Steelers game, and I get to talk s**t to Bengals fans.”

Baker went on to say that having to debunk rumors and lies is arguably more frustrating than seeing her life and work being criticized online. “I would like to say that, for most genuine wrestling fans, criticism comes from a good place. Just because they might not be able to communicate that properly or respectfully, that’s one thing, but just running with a rumor, people build whole podcasts around a one sentence rumor they’ve heard about me that’s not real.”

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An example of one of the rumors might be Baker’s backstage altercation with MJF, which reportedly saw them get into a heated argument after she made negative comments about the star. However, even MJF claims that the story was blown out of proportion.

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Over the last year, Jey Uso has become one of the most popular stars on the “WWE Raw” roster, launching himself into a successful singles role following several years in the tag team division and being apart of The Bloodline. Last week, Uso captured his first singles title after defeating Bron Breakker for the Intercontinental Championship, becoming the first member of the Anoa’i family to hold the title since Roman Reigns in 2017. Following his title win, WWE Hall Of Famer JBL expressed his love for Uso’s success and compared him to former WWE star Jeff Hardy. 

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“You couldn’t explain Jeff Hardy,” JBL said in an interview with Sportskeeda Wrestling. “When he came out, he did stuff — I don’t think he thought about what he was going to do. He just came out and reacted to the crowd, to the music, the beat, whatever it was, and people to this day just fall all over when Jeff Hardy walks into a building for good reason. Jey Uso’s like that. He comes out doing all that dancing, all that stuff. I mean, I’m not sure he has any of it. It’s just feel for him, you know some guys have feel and he has incredible feel. He is such a great talent.”

WWE Hall Of Famer Booker T also weighed in on Uso’s Intercontinental Championship win, calling his victory “bittersweet” because he’s been able to achieve greater success without his brother Jimmy Uso by his side. However, it remains to be seen if Uso replicates Hardy’s solo success by winning more singles gold in WWE as his career progresses over the coming years.

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