Athena On Becoming Ring Of Honor Women’s World Champion: “It’s just really cool to just kind of know that I made the right decision.”

Athena discusses becoming the brand new Ring Of Honor Women’s World Champion.

Earlier this weekend on Saturday evening, Athena battled Mercedes Martinez for the Ring Of Honor Women’s World Championship in a match where despite being the heel, Athena was cheered relentlessly by a home town crowd and eventually, she would hit the O Face and pin the champion.

Athena was asked during the Ring Of Honor Final Battle post show media scrum how it felt to win another championship in Texas and to be the first black women’s world champion in Ring Of Honor’s history.

It’s really cool. I think when I was driving to the building today, it was pretty surreal because I actually to live at that dormitory right across the street and very weird because this wasn’t here. This was like an empty parking lot where I got parking tickets all the time, I think. And it’s just really cool to just kind of know that I made the right decision because I actually ended up dropping out of college to become a pro wrestler. So coming to this venue, to this arena at UTA Mavericks, and just being here, not only in front of my parents, in front of that hometown crowd, doing what I do best, calling my shot and winning the ROH Women’s Championship, like, no greater feeling right now.

Athena at Ring Of Honor Final Battle Post Show Media Scrum

Time will tell what will be next for “The Fallen Goddess” but for now she will focus on making her first defense of the championship.

H/T to Brian Zilmer of PW Torch for transcription

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