Oh no, Tony found new toys to play with? Color me shocked. Baker has too much talent to be held back by AEW.
The issue is that she's extremely disliked in the locker room, and the shit she's stirred while in AEW wouldn't be tolerated elsewhere. Even Punk, at the height of the AEW drama he was embroiled in, had a lot of close friends in the locker room; even Bakers previous close friends (e.g. Hayter) don't really fuck with her personally anymore from what I've heard.
She's refused to work with certain talent, has tried to pull "that doesn't work for me, brother"'s over being asked to job, stirred up a bunch of shit about MJF (back when he was actually a top guy and meant something) and got nuclear backstage heat because of it, tried to goad Marina Shafir into shoot kicking Thunder Rosa's ass for "sandbagging her" (and then bullied the fuck out of TR; calling her injury fake, spreading rumors that she was "unsafe" (when she was one of the safest workers in the division), etc.), buried an angle they were trying to do with her and Deeb by just yelling "NO ONE CARES" repeatedly as Deeb was trying to cut a promo (the angle was then unceremoniously dropped), is extremely difficult to work with (as per what agents have said), cheated on Adam Cole (who is beloved in the AEW locker room and still has tons of friends in WWE) and that's not even counting being injury prone, having had a lot of concussions for such a short career (one of which was really severe iirc) and even *having a stroke* a year and some change ago; her stroke was supposedly "minor" but she has absolutely not been the same physically since having it.
In short, she's a dramamongering cunt with brain damage.
She's talented by AEW women division standards (moreso in the past than now; at one point, she and Shida were the only ones remotely worth half a shit; these days, half the roster is better in the ring than she is, and numerous women in the division have as much or more charisma), but neither WWE nor TNA are hurting for great female wrestlers and neither are going to put up with all that horseshit to get what to them would be a C+ talent and I can't imagine her ego would let her sign with anyone smaller than them.
The only reason she isn't talked about in the same breath as Tessa Blanchard -- who to be clear is also more talented than Baker -- is because Blanchard was very publicly called out for racism or whatever, while more or less simultaneously fucking off to Mexico and holding up TNA for their belt. Baker has caused more drama than Blanchard, but never suffered being cancelled and hasn't tried to massively fuck a company over (yet) and so has flown under the radar.
I 100% guarantee that this is some real woman denial like Adam Cole agreed to open their relationship so she technically wasn't cheating while she sucked off Tony Schiavone during Cole's Twitch stream.
Jokes aside, it was apparently Christian that she fucked (according to quite a few people, anyway) which is doubly hilarious because not only did Cole get cucked, but cucking a dude who practically looks like an IRL soyjak plays into Christian's gimmick.
Also when he wanted to have his first run in ROH before he became hot shit in 2014, Jim Cornette wanted nothing to do with him because he saw the videos of him wrestling Yoshihiko (the blowup doll wrestler) and he wrestling a 9 year old in DDT because of some tapes that Adam Pearce showed him.
Shockingly, Cornette has softened way, way up on Omega over the last year; he actually refers to him as "Omega" or "Kenny" rather than "Harpo Olivier Twinkletoes McFingerbang" or whatever. Presumably because it came out that Omega and Punk are still good friends, that Omega thinks that having a fist fight in the locker room is sometimes the way things need to be handled, and thinks the AEW EVP stuff is retarded and that he never wanted to be one.
When all is said and done, the craziest shit to come out of AEW may be AEW being so bad that it managed to not just change Cornette's opinion on Omega, but got him and Russo to agree on something for the first time possibly ever (the reasons AEW sucks).
I seem to remember a story about Omega being in developmental with WWE at one point. And I seem to recall Kenny basically told them to fuck off and left because they thought he needed more training, and Kenny took exception to that because he'd already made a bit of a name on the indies by that point and thought he was hot shit. But then this reason got twisted to be more about how Bill Demot(?) was a shitty person.
Am I retarded and making shit up? Or am I confusing Kenny in this story with someone else?
Omega has definitely been critical of DeMott for being a bully, but if memory serves, his tryout was on a day Harley Race was visiting/guest coaching; iirc, they split the class up into two groups: one that Race thought was making good progress and one that Race thought needed more work before they were ready to move forward. Omega was in the latter group and took exception to it.
is what they should have called ol Sparkplug.
