AEW star Britt Baker talks balance of being wrestler and dentist, why she's a big believer in Tony Khan

AEW star Britt Baker is one of the main wrestlers featured on ‘AEW All-Access’ and talked about what fans can expect from the show.

Britt Baker has emerged as one of the top stars in women’s professional wrestlers since she joined All Elite Wrestling in 2019 but stepping into the squared circle wasn’t always the dream.

The Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, native enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine in the same year she began to train to be a professional wrestler. Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D., isn’t a wrestling gimmick or kayfabe. Instead, it’s a real-life role she handles in addition to being a wrestler.

Baker told Fox News Digital in a recent interview she was just a fan of wrestling before she thought to herself she could perform in the ring as good, if not better than, anyone else.

"I was just a fan. I never dreamed of it as a kid," Baker said. It was never anything that I was chasing until I learned that I could really. I was in a wormhole on YouTube of what’s called indy wrestling – independent wrestling. And I found out that some of my favorite wrestlers, like massive WWE stars, all started off in what’s called the independent wrestling circuit. Pretty much anyone could do it. You’re wrestling in front of 50 people in bingo halls and high school auditoriums and anyone can do it. 

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Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. addresses the crowd during AEW Dynamite - Beach Break on Jan. 26, 2022, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"That got kind of my brain ticking. ‘Hey, maybe I should just try it and see because I love wrestling so much maybe I will like it.’ And then the first time I tried out and stepped foot inside a