AEW's women's roster just got a big boost thanks to the fact that AQA is officially ALL ELITE!
In case you missed it, AQA (real name Angela Arnold) made her AEW debut on this week's edition of Dynamite on TBS. The Alabaman went one-on-one with Jade Cargill and performed valiantly despite failing to conquer the undefeated TBS Champion. She didn't win the match, but she looked good and made Cargill look great in the process. Clearly, Tony Khan was impressed.
AQA has a brief sting in NXT under the name Zayda Ramier but was released in one of the many WWE layoff waves last year. The 25-year-old made her pro-wrestling debut in 2018 after being trained by WWE Hall of Famer Booker T at his Reality Of Wrestling school in Houston, Texas.
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"I wanted to get the very best experience that I could. I was looking for schools, and it never popped into my head that maybe I should look in Texas because I have family up here, like immediate family. So I searched for wrestling schools in Texas, and Booker T’s name popped up," AQA said of her decision to attend Booker's wrestling school during a 2019 FanSided interview. "I was like, that’s it. I’m going there. Why would I not want to learn from a WWE Hall of Famer? And I made the absolute best decision of my life. Like, he is so full of knowledge. There are things that he tells us that you don’t even think about thinking about, and it’ll just blow your mind."
On a recent edition of his Hall Of Fame podcast, Booker said that AQA's Dynamite debut was a test and that "she passed with flying colors." Booker added, "There were small little things that the outsider didn't see that I saw in that match that, perhaps, will literally catapult her to newer heights."
