Ruby Soho On Headlining AEW Grand Slam

In an interview with Inside the Ropes, AEW star Ruby Soho talked about main eventing AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam at Arthur Ashe last month, where she challenged Dr. Britt Baker DMD for the AEW Women’s World Championship. According to Soho, she only learned she and Baker were headlining the show when she got to Arthur Ashe that day.

“I found out when I got there and I looked at the card,” Soho revealed. “I was like ‘hold on.’ And I’m trying to find the match after us and there’s not one. I was like ‘oh my god’, and I’m staring at it for an absurdly long time, where I’m just like ‘this has got to me some typo. There’s no way.’ I had seen the other matches on the card and I was just blow away. I double checked and asked ‘Tony, are we the main event?’ He said ‘yup. Main event!’ I was like ‘oh my gosh!’

“I was at that point in that moment where I was like ‘I don’t know how much more my heart can take. I’ve been here for three weeks and I’ve been able to debut on our most historic PPV that we’ve ever had. And now I get to, on a card of legendary performers, I get the honor of having my very first title match as a main event of our biggest Dynamite to date. The first time we’d ever performed any wrestling in that building.’ It happened already and I’m still in disbelief. It’s just been one amazing thing after another. I don’t know how I’m going to top this. And now we have the TBS Women’s tournament and I’m like ‘okay!’ I guess it’s just another amazing milestone I get to be a part of. I’m just crazy lucky, I’m so lucky to be a part of this and be part of these monumental moments in AEW history. I’m just very grateful.”

Soho admits that she believes she has a lot to prove right now, both to herself and to the rest of the AEW Women’s roster. She revealed that the Baker match showed her she was still capable of performing at the level, and now her main focus has turned to making history by…