Willow Nightingale Says AEW Collision’s Smaller Crew Leads To A “Relaxed And Chilled Locker Room”

Willow Nightingale discusses being part of AEW Collision.

Since Collision’s inception, it has faces that have been mostly exclusive to the show on Saturday nights, with the same being said for several stars on AEW Dynamite each week. While there has been obvious crossovers, the two locker rooms have felt distinctly different.

One person who has found herself featuring on AEW Collision quite a bit is Willow Nightingale, who won the women’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament on the brand.

Speaking during a recent interview with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, Willow spoke about the Collision locker room and how she found out she would be a Collision regular.

“Initially, I wasn’t entirely sure of whether I would be a Wednesday person or a Saturday person. While some people did get a feel of what would be their home moving forward with their schedule, I never really received anything like that. I felt I would be going back and forth between both, and I still do think that will be the case from time to time. I have been on the majority of the Collision episodes, so I am seeing that as more of a home moving forward,” she said. “Initially, it’s like, I’ve wrestled Saturdays my entire life doing indie show. I’m used to this, but wrapping my head about rescheduling how my life is, ‘Alright, we can get this.’ Once I actually did the first show, I had so much fun. The locker room was so relaxed, chilled. It’s a bit of a smaller crew, so with that there is not as much chaos of ‘I need to make sure I’m in the makeup chair,’ and there’s not 500 people competing to be seen by the makeup artist at once or ‘I need to go see the doctor here, but there are a million people at the doctor getting massages.’

“There’s a lot more freedom to not have to rush and find space to do whatever your pre-match warmups are,” she adds. “Everyone is chill, and ultimately, we want to have the best show we possibly can. With something new, it’s always great to see so many different people who might come from different backgrounds or different experience levels all put their energy into making one show as successful as possible. Good vibes all around so far. Really enjoying it and it’s all been positive for me.”

Willow Nightingale

Willow recently challenged Athena for the Ring Of Honor Women’s Championship at ROH Death Before Dishonor last Friday.

H/T to Fightful

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