Kris Statlander

Kristen Stadtlander (born August 7, 1995) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Kris Statlander.

She is signed to All Elite Wrestling where she is a member of the Best Friends stable.

Statlander was born in West Islip, New York on Long Island.

After working professionally as a stunt double, she began her professional wrestling training under Pat Buck and Brian Myers at the Create A Pro Wrestling Academy in Hicksville, New York in 2016.

Statlander later became the first female graduate of the academy.

Statlander made her professional wrestling debut in November 2016.

Statlander made an appearance for WWE on an episode of SmackDown Live that aired on April 9, 2019, teaming with Karissa, named "The Brooklyn Belles", in a losing effort against the then-WWE Women's Tag Team Champions Billie Kay and Peyton Royce.

In June that same year, she competed at an event for the promotion Beyond Wrestling in an intergender match against Joey Janela in a losing effort.

She made her final appearance for Create A Pro Wrestling, the promotion under which she trained, in December 2019., until 2023.

Statlander made her debut for All Elite Wrestling (AEW) on November 19, 2019, competing in a tag team match alongside Big Swole against Riho and Britt Baker on Dark, where Statlander and Swole were defeated.

In December, AEW announced that Statlander had signed with the promotion.

Following her signing, she defeated Baker on the December 18 episode of Dynamite to become the No. 1 contender for the AEW Women's World Championship.

Statlander competed against Riho for the AEW Women's World title on the January 8, 2020, episode of Dynamite, where she was defeated due to interferences by Brandi Rhodes, Awesome Kong, Mel, and the debuting Luther.

She received another opportunity to compete for the title on February 29, 2020, at Revolution, this time against new champion Nyla Rose, where she was once again defeated.

In June 2020, Statlander suffered an ACL injury in her left leg during an episode of Dynamite.

Statlander returned from injury alongside Trent Beretta on March 31, 2021, helping Chuck Taylor and Orange Cassidy defeat Miro and Kip Sabian on Dynamite.

In September at All Out, she challenged Baker for the AEW Women's World Championship but was unsuccessful.

In November, Statlander–along with Trent, Taylor, Cassidy, and Wheeler Yuta–joined the New Japan Pro-Wrestling-based stable Chaos.

In August 2022, Statlander suffered a completely torn ACL and lateral meniscus in her right leg during a match on Dark and stated she would need an indefinite amount of time to recover.

Statlander returned at Double or Nothing in May 2023, appearing after a match between then-AEW TBS Champion Jade Cargill and Taya Valkyrie in which Cargill retained her title.

She answered Cargill's open challenge to an impromptu match and won, ending Cargill's 60-match undefeated streak and obtaining the AEW TBS Championship.

Statlander originally employed an alien gimmick, which she attributed to her being "a big science nerd".

Under this character, she was nicknamed "The Galaxy's Greatest Alien" and billed as having come from the Andromeda Galaxy.

Statlander changed her gimmick in 2022 since she felt that with the previous gimmick "I was never really being fully taken seriously", calling the previous character as "too fun, too lovable, I guess, too goofy and easygoing".

Statlander uses a 450° splash and an inverted piledriver as finishers, respectively called Area 451 and the Big Bang Theory.

With her change in gimmick, Big Bang Theory was renamed Friday Night Fever, referencing the song "More Than a Woman" by the Bee Gees, which she had used as her theme early in her career.