{"id":170667,"date":"2023-12-15T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=170667"},"modified":"2023-12-15T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T20:27:35","slug":"athena-talks-about-whether-she-sees-herself-as-the-face-of-roh-weekly-meetings-with-tony-khan-her-role-at-final-battle-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/12\/15\/athena-talks-about-whether-she-sees-herself-as-the-face-of-roh-weekly-meetings-with-tony-khan-her-role-at-final-battle-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena talks about whether she sees herself as the Face of ROH, weekly meetings with Tony Khan, her role at Final Battle, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3475123198\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Women&#8217;s Wrestling Talk interviewed Athena and provided PWTorch with the following excerpts. The entire video is available <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XyN5duuGheU\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u2022On What It\u2019s Like to Be The Face of ROH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not something I ever thought would be a sentence. Like, it wasn&#8217;t on a bingo card for me in any year, or just in life. But I&#8217;m really happy. Just all the hard work that I put in, not only just in the ring, outside of the ring, paid off. And people are recognizing that like, hey, I&#8217;m the franchise player, I am the main character of a show. And on some weird level, it feels weird saying that, to be honest with you, but it&#8217;s really cool. It&#8217;s a really cool accomplishment. And I honestly just go to work and try to do the best job I can every single day. So I&#8217;m happy it is paying off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022About Diversity Across Brands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really cool. I don&#8217;t know how to really explain it other than, we have an unsaid sisterhood, it feels like. I remember being there when Bianca won the Royal Rumble, and I was just so ecstatic for her because I know how hard she had worked. And then, you know, when I left WWE, I talked to Trin so much across the board, and we actually became like sisters from another mister. And it was just like, I texted her a couple days ago, &#8216;Girl, we&#8217;re gonna get this match one day&#8217;. And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Yes, we are girl, one day we gonna get it.&#8217; You know, so it&#8217;s just really cool to see how diverse women&#8217;s wrestling is right now, not just talking about African American women, just talking across the board. And we can&#8217;t forget Willow Nightingale making history as well in there. You know, it&#8217;s just showing that hard work pays off. And hard work will shine through every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022Regarding Weekly Meetings with Tony Khan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have found that I have a very good collaboration with my boss, which is something that I feel like I was missing for a very, very long time. And the fact that he trusts me to make certain calls and a lot of times Billie is just staring at a wall, if you really want to know. Like Billy is just off smiling in a corner somewhere. And Lexy, you know, Lexy is just trying to make sure Billie doesn&#8217;t fall down and hurt herself. But between me and TK, it&#8217;s a really cool, like coloration that we&#8217;ve had with this entire thing; because we&#8217;ve taken a lot of risks. I think across the board that are outside my character; that are outside stuff that he normally does, and it&#8217;s paid off every step of the way. But that&#8217;s just having trust with one another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On the Importance of Ring of Honor<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3970038098\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The beauty of Ring of Honor, Tony has allowed them to showcase themselves. Tony has allowed them to have storylines outside of the main championship. And I think on some level, he is experimenting with what he can and can&#8217;t do with the roster. So to me, it&#8217;s always been a collaboration with me and TK, it&#8217;s always been. I go into the office, hey, we have a conversation, which ends up great. Sometimes we butt heads. But hey, who hasn&#8217;t butt heads with their boss before. But 99.9% of the time we come out happier and better and honestly, the storyline has benefited from day one, when he pulled us in the office and said, &#8216;Hey, there&#8217;s something here. I think we&#8217;re going to pull the trigger on this. Him allowing me to make certain calls and me allowing him to make certain calls has made this an absolute banger of a feud, has made this an absolute banger of a storyline and it&#8217;s brought a lot of eyes to Ring of Honor that I don&#8217;t think people were expecting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On main eventing Final Battle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Hey, champ, what&#8217;s going on?&#8217;. I was like, &#8216;Oh, what&#8217;s up TK?&#8217;. He goes, &#8216;Final Battle. You and Billie&#8217;. I was like, &#8216;Yeah, I was gonna talk to you about that&#8217;. He goes, &#8216;Main Event&#8217;. And I was like, &#8216;Thanks, Tony&#8217;. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Can&#8217;t think of a better way to end the year. Doing great champ&#8217;. Then like, just went on, &#8216;I don&#8217;t think it makes sense for anybody else to be in that position. You&#8217;ve been killing it day in and day out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full interview on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XyN5duuGheU\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED NEXT:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/12\/15\/aew-dynamite-ratings-report-12-23-viewership-and-demo-compared-to-season-average-and-year-ago-numbers-novembers-7-day-total-viewers-update\/\">AEW Dynamite Ratings Report (12\/23): Viewership and demo compared to season average and year-ago numbers, November\u2019s 7-day total viewers update<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OR CHECK THIS OUT AT PROWRESTLING.NET: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2023\/12\/14\/tko-and-wwe-executives-reportedly-met-with-wbd-executives-on-monday\/\">TKO and WWE executives reportedly met with WBD executives on Monday<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-849764589\"><div id=\"pwtor-101422389\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Women&#8217;s Wrestling Talk interviewed Athena and provided PWTorch with the following excerpts. The entire video is available HERE. \u2022On What It\u2019s Like to Be The Face of ROH It&#8217;s not something I ever thought would <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/12\/15\/athena-talks-about-whether-she-sees-herself-as-the-face-of-roh-weekly-meetings-with-tony-khan-her-role-at-final-battle-more\/\" title=\"Athena talks about whether she sees herself as the Face of ROH, weekly meetings with Tony Khan, her role at Final Battle, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2,4247,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-interview-highlights","category-news_roh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-15-at-1.16.54\u202fPM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170673,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170667\/revisions\/170673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}