Kris Statlander is thriving during her time with AEW, and is one of the most popular women’s roster members. There is something she would like to change about her role: an element of her ring gear.
In June 2020, Statlander suffered a high-grade tear of her ACL, forcing her to undergo surgery in order to fix the issue. Since returning to the company at “AEW Dynamite” in March, she has been wearing a knee brace, and Statlander told “Jaychele Nicole” that it is just a precautionary thing.
The current WWE star known as Alexa Bliss has revealed that she wears a knee brace in and out of the ring because “you’re more likely to re-tear your ACL if you don’t take the proper precautions,” which is why she keeps wearing it.
“I don’t want to wear it anymore, but I am forced to. I hate it, I hate wearing it,” she said. “… I do have KT tape on under the brace, and then I have the brace on. But those are strictly just to make sure that it doesn’t explode in there again. It’s fine, I am healed. It’s more just to make sure it doesn’t happen again because it’s awful.”
This brace appears to be bulky, and Statlander says that when she has her “legs out with the brace” it can cause a problem. Though, this could be down to the fact that she believes her “legs might have grown too big for the brace”.
” Stadtlander said. “The only time it’s a problem is if I’m not wearing tall boots because the tall boots help it from sliding down. I was wearing short boots for a little bit and the brace would just slide down my leg every single time, so I have to wear tall boots.”
For Statlander, she wants to focus on wrestling, which has reunited her with AEW since changing back to being an alien. So far, it appears that people are connecting with her and the fans love her. She is currently having a feud with the TBS Champion Jade Cargill and is working alongside Athena to target the champ and her Baddies stablemates.
