KiLynn King Discusses The Positive Experience Working With AEW & Her Future
Pro wrestler KiLynn King talks about the impact wrestling matches at All Elite Wrestling has had on her career.
KiLynn King sat down with on-air personality Denise Salcedo for a 45-minute in-depth interview about her journey, sacrifices she made to pursue a career in professional wrestling and how working with All Elite Wrestling has benefited her by elevating her in-ring performance.
KiLynn King's Introduction To AEW Fans
AEW fans began to get a closer look at King when she began appearing for the promotion in May 2020, King was two years out of wrestling school trying to make a name for herself on the independent wrestling scene. Her first match was against Penelope Ford on AEW Dark, from there she spent the rest of the year wrestling several matches for the YouTube program during this time she worked with nearly every woman on the roster including matches with Nyla Rose, Brandi Rhodes and even a one-on-one match with Britt Baker on AEW Dynamite. 2021 brought more success for King, she began to pick up more victories on AEW Dark and she had the opportunity appear on the Casino Battle Royale at AEW All Out in Chicago.
"Before AEW people thought there was only one option in wrestling and now the whole wrestling world has completely opened up. Forget about me, there's just so many people getting so many amazing opportunities and even just one opportunity in AEW just opens up so many avenues for their career, and honestly that's what AEW did for me."
King credited a lot of the exposure she got from AEW to other work opportunities she got which included working the NWA Empowerrr show, Mission Pro and several others.
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"There's a lot of frustrated people out there that are like 'I don't understand why she's not signed,' I appreciate the love and the passion behind what I am doing but even if a contract is never in the picture I will forever be grateful for every opportunity I got with AEW because nothing that I am doing now would probably be possible without them."
KiLynn King On Her Improvements In Her AEW Career
On top of the exposure she received from appearing on AEW Dark numerous times, she notes that her in-ring work and overall presence has improved.
"There's a lot of crazy things that AEW has allowed me to do. Going back and looking at my work before AEW; so much has changed about the way I approach my style in the ring. Not only just the way I make an entrance but the way I throw my strikes, the way I act after a spot is finished, there's just so many things that have changed, even just the way I run the ropes, just attitude, style, intensity, so many things and I owe that to AEW and to all the coaches there and other wrestlers who helped me while I was there... The fact that they kept bring me back, and kept trusting me with so many matches and opponents was great. I had never wrestled somebody whop couldn't speak English before and that's something I learned how to do at AEW, and it was very scary, but they trusted me to that do and because of that, that is something I can handle now. They put me in a lot of scenarios that I had never been in before."
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KiLynn King Discusses A Potential Future In AEW
In regard to whether or not she has been offered a contract by AEW, King says there haven't been any conversations surrounding contracts just yet. However, the benefits of appearing on AEW Dark have made her into a more "powerful" wrestler.
"I get to have conversations a lot with people, and they are very happy with my progress and the things that I am doing, conversations of contract, no. There were a couple of moments where it looked like it might happen, what happened since that moment where I felt that, I am not sure but at the end of the day the way I have always kept myself sane about it is, 'you're learning, you're growing, and you're becoming a more powerful, your presence is becoming more powerful, you're becoming a more powerful wrestler and people are knowing you more and caring about you more, and because of the time you had in AEW people are shifting their gaze to other projects that you're doing."
King says she will continue to take any opportunity to work with AEW and she's using that to her leverage to help her make a bigger name for herself in wrestling.
"I know that there are a lot of people in AEW rooting for me, but again it's just a matter of time, I just need to continue growing and doing my thing, and the world has a funny way of making full circles happen. So who knows, it could never happen, it could happen a year from now, six months from now, you never know. Any opportunity to work with them, I take them up on it because I always enjoy my time there but ever since they started traveling on the road again, I've been trying to focus more on taking whatever kind of momentum I was able to build there and just throwing it all in the indies and trying to create some histories and stories there for myself."
King is currently the Coastal Women's Wrestling Champion and the current Capital Championship Wrestling Champion. You can listen to the full conversation below.
