Hayter first fell in love with the industry when young, watching online clips and videos of matches, with brash anti-hero Stone Cold Steve Austin – a beer drinking, brawling and swearing star of the late 90s and early 2000s – an early inspiration.
“Nothing has ever captured me like wrestling did, not movies or TV or music,” she says.
“Wrestling had this weird trance on me. I wanted to watch more, understand it and eventually do it, and I decided I was going to be a wrestler or a stuntwoman.”
A prolific career on the British wrestling scene followed, which led to a stint in Japan, and a blink-and-you’ll -miss-it appearance on WWE’s development show NXT, where she lost to Scottish wrestler Piper Niven in Glasgow.
That was one of very few Scottish appearances for Hayter, who says she’s eager to sample a “proper Glasgow crowd” at the Hydro, as AEW record their flagship TV shows Dynamite and Collision in the city.
She has been with the company since 2021, becoming a fixture of their women’s division and winning the women’s singles title on one occasion.
Earlier this year she was paired up with Norwich native Alex Windsor to form a team calling the Brawling Birds – a fan favourite duo fond of both brawls and booze.
“It’s pretty close to us in real life, ” she laughs.
“We’re pretty tomboyish, we don’t take things too seriously and we both like going to the pub. We’re loud and boisterous but in a good way, and then you crank that up to 10 – we do ham it up a bit for an American audience.”