Why does Bea Pristley get so much hate?

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I will admit that I know nothing about her other than what I saw this weekend, but I noticed online and in live threads that she was getting a lot of flack from people.

So what gives?

[Spider2024]

Critics say she's not a very good wrestler and gets the majority of her bookings because she's dating really good wrestler Will Ospreay.

(Nevermind the fact that she's a regular competitor in World Wonder Ring Stardom, the #1 all-women's federation in Japan, thus it's basically the "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" for a women's wrestler in today's day. And she's even their top champion! Pretty sure Stardom wouldn't exactly owe any favors to Mr. Ospreay for any reason.)

[This Player Hating Mothman]

Yeah I'm not gonna pin any of her success on Will Ospreay, I just think she's awful, and her first time in an AEW ring she gave Britt Baker a concussion. And like stuff does happen, but Priestley is generally just mediocre in the first place, and there'll always be less forgiveness for someoen who sucks injuring someone than someone who's good having a rare slip-up.

[Rave]

She's mediocre and really comes off as one of those "my shit don't stink" types.

[Hypnosis]

More like BITCH Priestley!

[Spider2024]

Sept 2, 2019 16:37:13 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

More like BITCH Priestley!

Her real middle name is "Yotch".

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Sept 2, 2019 16:37:13 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

More like BITCH Priestley!

[Steveweiser]

Many in the UK feel she got all her opportunities purely from her relationship with Ospreay, and that she's unsafe in the ring. Also allegedly fed the information that led to the mudslinging between Ospreay and Sadie Gibbs that manifested at All Out. I don't hate her as much as a lot of people do, I feel she has improved a fair bit in the last couple of years, but I still wouldn't put her anywhere near the top female stars in the world.

[Mainia]

She's got a great look, but as others have said she is quite poor and sloppy in the ring. She is still quite young though to be fair, plenty of time to learn and improve.

[AwamoriRock]

It's sort of a mix of in and out of ring stuff. A lot of people find her to be careless/average in the ring and kind of a dickhead out of it.

Out of ring: The Sadie Gibbs thread on the page has a good sum of that incident officialfan.proboards.com/thread/591134/sadie-gibbs-swing-priestley-night
It's pretty clear she told Ospreay about someone in Stardom she didn't like (Sadie), then he took to Twitter to try and shame her after a death in her family and making a dick of himself.
Bea and Ospreay are also said to have worked to blackball a female wrestler from promotions in the UK after she spoke up about being sexually harassed by one of Ospreay's buddies.

There was also this thing where Bea started using Manami Toyota's finisher. It's been sort of a protected move in joshi outside of who Toyota has passed it on to, and Toyota got upset about her using it without asking. I think this is a bit trivial but I can see why she wanted the move limited for storyline purposes, but even a bunch of Japanese wrestlers told Toyota to cool down. Still, Bea and Ospreay sort of trolled in response (although it led to the great comedy of people reminding Ospreay of all the times he has complained about people stealing his moves).

In ring: Tbh a lot of this is subjective, but I generally find her to be average at best in the ring and unsafe some of the time. She's gotten a lot better and I thought her match with Kagetsu was awesome, but she can be pretty reckless with head drops and in Stardom she comes across as a bit of a Rossy overpush as champ when there are others on the roster who should be up there. Although Stardom is in a unique position where its top title has taken the backseat to the secondary title for over a year.

[Cyno]

Not a great attitude out of the ring, and she's prone to injuring other people because of being a bit careless in the ring. She gave Britt Baker her concussion at FFTF and while I missed it, I heard she nearly gave someone else a head injury at the battle royal at All Out.

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

I’m just waiting for a Bea Priestley/‘Jungleboy’ Jack Perry confrontation

[ronin705]

well after re-watching the battle royale, her treatment/no selling/basically shitting on sadie any chance she got, while being the "vet" of the situation, comes off a tad reckless and unprofessional TO ME.

[King Devitt: Scrum Guzzler]

So, not knowing much about it myself, it sounds like Will and Bea are the new Melina and Johnny Nitro.

She starts shit, he runs barking like a dumb dog.

I'd like to be wrong, as I generally like Ospreay.

[Crappler El 0 M]

I think she's improved a great deal over the past year. I don't know what promoters or wrestlers think of her, but Stardom management seems to really like her, as they made her their top champion and have protected her a great deal. Last year they had Io Shirai endorse her before she left for WWE. Perhaps she does have a bad reputation with some wrestlers, but she seems to get on well with Toni Storm, Piper Niven/Viper, and with her peers at Stardom, some of whom are teens who Bea takes under her wing a bit.

[Dub H]

Sept 2, 2019 16:58:56 GMT -5 @dax said:

Sept 2, 2019 16:37:13 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

More like BITCH Priestley!

I hope this gif never goes away

[Mozenrath]

Whatever her deal is, if she does that no-selling shit again, take her off the show or at the very least, keep her far away from Sadie. This is too early in to put up with shit like that.

[Joe Neglia]

A "Tessa Blanchard" attitude without as much talent to back it up. She's good, but good is about it. And yes, she can be unsafe to work with.

[Dub H]

A shame,she got a great look for wrestling.

But that is never an excuse to be unsafe and rude.

[Mozenrath]

Sept 2, 2019 20:26:43 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

A "Tessa Blanchard" attitude without as much talent to back it up. She's good, but good is about it. And yes, she can be unsafe to work with.

Yeah, and you really don't hear that much about Tessa's attitude these days, despite being pushed harder than ever. Maybe Bea will mellow out or be made to keep in line, but if she f***s up her spot by feeling too big-time, I can't say I'll feel sorry for her.