Ultimately 12 months’s ROH Remaining Battle occasion, Billie Starkz fell brief in her quest to seize the ROH Girls’s World Championship. Her efforts, nonetheless, have been spectacular, a lot in order that the defending champion Athena welcomed Starkz again into her good graces and the M.I.T. (Minion In Coaching) program. Sadly for Starkz, this reconciliation between mentor and protege turned out to be non permanent, as Athena progressively reverted again to mistreating and berating her, inflicting Starkz to stroll out of M.I.T for good.
“Athena has taught me properly. I’ve stood by MIT. I believed it was a household, however I do not suppose household treats one another like this,” Starkz informed “Informal Conversations with The Traditional.” “I am past annoyed with the torment I’ve went by for the final couple of months. Lexy [Nair] shouldn’t be right here to assist out anymore, so we’ll see what unfolds at Remaining Battle to see what we are able to get by.”
When requested concerning the ultimate straw that led her to depart M.I.T and subsequently problem Athena to a rematch, Starkz pointed to the December 12 episode of “ROH on HonorClub,” by which Athena stole the pinfall from her to safe her spot within the Worldwide Girls’s Cup match at Wrestle Dynasty.
“I really feel like there was a number of weeks the place I took it on the chin, I took it on the chin after which the deadly four-way match made me understand one thing, once we did the contenders for the [Wrestle] Dynasty. I simply realized that I wasn’t the place I wished to be on the roster. I wish to take over.”
One 12 months after their first title bout, Starkz and Athena met once more in the primary occasion of ROH Remaining Battle 2024, which emanated from the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Metropolis. Athena defeated Starkz to retain her ROH Girls’s Championship but once more as properly.
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