Kris Statlander has been a mainstay in AEW since almost day one. Fans seem to love her, so I figured it was time for her to get her due in SQUASH of the Week!
Unfortunately for Kris, it will be as the victim as this was many years ago when she was taking on the WWE women’s tag team champions, Billie Kay and Peyton Royce, the Iiconics! And don’t tell me that’s a typo, that’s how this dumb company spelled their name. Anyhoo, I always found these two to be quite bad in the ring but somehow wildly entertaining. Kinda crazy they just more or less vanished from the entire wrestling scene as they both seemed to have, well, something. I mean, you have to have that certain it factor to be featured in SQUASH of the Week, right?
Tonight they will be taking on the Brookyln Belles, Karissa & Kristen, with the latter being Statlander. And wait a minute…Karissa? That’s not Elektra Lopez is it? By golly, I sure believe it is!
So the bell rings and the Iiconics go to work with some wacky double teams that don’t appear to do any damage whatsoever. But that doesn’t stop them from giving a grandiose posing routine!
They throw Stat into the corner as Peyton does the old standard “woman with long legs chokes foe in corner” bit. Props to her for trying but it always seemed to look a lot better when even the likes of Stacy Keibler did it.
At this point Elektra comes in and is a house of fire. Or maybe it’s a house of Fantasma! See what I did there? So she gets a move or two in and then is kicked right in the kisser and collapses to the mat.
One more goofy tandem maneuver and the Iiconics have dispatched of Kris and Elektra. We get a completely over the top celebration to get us to the break. It’s so weird seeing a team WWE was completely behind currently nowhere to be found while the so-called jobber team is still super active in today’s wrestling ranks. But you never know what will happen even if you are on the losing end of a SQUASH of the Week!