Pittsburgh-trained Britt Baker cleans teeth and kicks ass as only dentist in pro wrestling | Arts + Entertainment | Pittsburgh
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 Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. and Thunder Rosa
When Brittany Baker sees people as a dentist she sometimes has to navigate concerns about her expert wrestling profession.
“A good deal of moments right before you go to a medical professional, you Google them and you see, “What are the opinions? What are they? Where do they go to school? How lengthy they’re training?,'” claims Baker, who methods dentistry in Florida between matches. “Nicely, when you Google me, it is all about the place, but the major matter is that I am a wrestler. So persons are incredibly bewildered to occur into the dentist’s office, they’re like, ‘Wait, you are a wrestler?’ And in some cases it truly is a speedy discussion wherever they imagine, ‘Oh, that is great.’ Occasionally they do not like that at all and they’re like, ‘OK, I will not like that, I am out.'”



Baker, who’s formally billed by All Elite Wrestling, the business she performs with, as the “only absolutely accredited and training dentist in the experienced wrestling market,” adds that it truly is the “diehard fans” coming into her office environment seeking autographed photos who from time to time make the predicament a little awkward. “Which is wherever it receives tricky mainly because I hardly ever want to brush off a affected individual but at the same time you are there to do get the job done, you happen to be there to be a dentist, not a wrestler.”




Baker, who wrestles beneath the name Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D., will look in AEW Dynamite/Rampage Live on Wed., April 20 at the Petersen Gatherings Heart, exactly where she will combat to reclaim her AEW Women’s Earth Championship title. 



Baker, who originally grew up in Punxsutawney, Pa., moved to Pittsburgh to go to dental school after obtaining graduating from Penn Condition University. 



“And I was a significant wrestling supporter at the time,” states Baker. “And a good deal of my pals advised me that, given that I was shifting to Pittsburgh, and I was a wrestling enthusiast, I should really look at out the independent wrestling scene there, which is basically like, wrestling matches in superior faculty gymnasiums and BINGO halls in entrance of, like, 50 to 100 persons with a quite distinctive, really tremendous-reduced price range. But then when I did my research, I uncovered that [Pittsburgh was] wherever a lot of my favourite wrestlers that I was observing on Tv started out. So it created it, like, a minimal little bit extra of a reasonable detail that possibly I could try out.”

 
 
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 Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. (appropriate)
Baker adds that, while she played sporting activities in substantial university, including basketball and monitor and cross region, she lacked the “variety of athletic background that would assistance for the issues you genuinely have to have to be great at in wrestling.”
“I sense like I experienced to learn very significantly from the floor up,” she says.




In 2014, Baker enrolled in the South Hills-based mostly Worldwide Wrestling Cartel teaching academy, then moved on to prepare with Absolute Intensive Wrestling in Ohio. All the while she attended the University of Pittsburgh University of Dental Medicine, earning her diploma in 2018. 



She grew to become the IWC Women’s Champion in 2016, and in 2019, was signed to AEW as the company’s 1st contracted feminine wrestler. Since then, AEW has expanded its women’s roster with abilities like the current AEW Women’s Planet Winner Thunder Rosa and numerous some others.



Baker believes that professional wrestling, an marketplace that has historically centered on and appealed to guys, has turn out to be a lot more pleasant to ladies both equally in and out of the ring.



“It is anything actually great simply because, for a when, as a fan, I didn’t have a great deal of female buddies that like to view wrestling like me,” suggests Baker, adding that she’s glad gals who are into the activity have more function models and “a tiny little bit of a wider neighborhood now.”



Although in Pittsburgh, she will also use her time to give again to the metropolis that helped launch both of her professions. At an function taking spot April 19 at The Hollander Venture, enthusiasts can get a picture with Baker if they provide a deal of little one formulation for donation to the Free Keep 15104 in Braddock. 




As for the April 20 show, Baker claims she appears to be ahead to acquiring again her championship title and proving herself as one of the industry’s best and beloved feminine wrestlers.



“And I say the only detail harder than finding to the major is keeping on major,” says Baker. “So ideal now, it truly is proving that I can nevertheless be the top female with out possessing the championship tied close to my waistline and acquiring it back again as swiftly as possible. And just nevertheless getting a compelling portion of the show, currently being something which is entertaining, currently being something that people glance ahead to every single week.”

