Athena Says Her Next Goal As Ring Of Honor Women’s World Champion Is To Surpass Hulk Hogan’s Longest World Title Reign

Athena speaks on her reign as the ‘Forever’ Ring Of Honor World Champion, noting she wants to surpass Hogan’s longest reign at Christmas.

The Ring Of Honor Women’s World Champion has been so for over 1300 days now, and is currently the longest running world champion of the modern era in professional wrestling.

While speaking to WFAA in a new interview, Athena spoke about her next goal as the Ring Of Honor Women’s World Champion, which is to surpass Hulk Hogan’s longest world title reign this Christmas.

“I’m a longest-running champion in company history. Not only that, a few weeks ago I actually became the longest-running champion of the modern-day era man or woman, so I am the official longest-running champion currently at this point in time. The longest-running champion ever is Bruno Sammartino, who is absolutely phenomenal and, as we would say, a complete unit, most would say, but I think my next goal, which is very immediate, is Christmas, because then I will surpass Hulk Hogan’s longest reign as well. So that’s the goal right now, but the goal is to keep it forever, because, you know, I guess I’m gonna make a little cheesy pun. We don’t talk about Bruno, no, no, no. Yes, corny as it is, but yeah, it’s really cool, and I think after having that match with Hazuki, I just want to travel the world. I want better competitors. I want more intense competition, not only in Ring of Honor. I want to defend my championship around the world. We’re going to Paris soon, so fingers crossed someone will step up for a shot at the Forever Champion. Yeah, I’ve been extremely thankful for everything I’ve gotten to do in my career and getting to make history, not only main eventing seven pay-per-views in a row, being the first woman to main event a pay-per-view under Tony Khan’s AEW Ring of Honor banner. So I’m just excited for anything thrown my way because I know I’m going to tackle it and come out on top.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Athena spoke about wanting to become a Forever Champion in AEW. You can read more about that here.

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