Awesome Kong shocked the wrestling world when she appeared at All Elite Wrestling’s “Double or Nothing” pay-per-view in May at the behest of friend Brandi Rhodes for a rare match since she left TNA in 2016.

The 17-year veteran, whose real name is Kia Stevens, will now try to earn the opportunity to become the first AEW women’s champion.

She will be an entrant in the Casino Battle Royale during the “All Out” preshow “The Buy In” (7 p.m., YouTube, B/R Live) at the Sears Centre in Chicago on Aug. 31, The Post has learned. A victory earns her a match for the women’s title on the promotion’s debut show on TNT on Oct. 2 at 8 p.m.

Kong, who also stars as Tammé Dawson on the Netflix series “Glow,” took some time before her big match for some Q&A with The Post’s pro wrestling writer Joseph Staszewski.

Q: What does it mean at this point in your career to be in the battle royal and have an opportunity to become the first AEW women’s champion?

A: I like records. (Laughs) I like breaking molds. I love making history and what not, so this is putting another notch on my belt, so to speak. Who wouldn’t want that?

Q: If you win this battle royal, do you think Brandi Rhodes will ask for your spot or the title if you win it?

A: Hmm. That’s amusing. That’s an idea I haven’t pondered on yet. You’ll have to ask me about that another time. I will ponder on that and have to get back to you, OK?

Q: Why was this the right time for you to get back into pro wrestling?

A: After I left TNA it allowed me to take a step back and see what, if anything, else I even wanted to do in wrestling. And then of course with the injuries I accumulated over the years, I thought it was a good time to take a break and let my body heal. So after about three years you kind of get the itch — and that’s when you’re really healthy, physically and mentally, you tend to want to step back in the ring because wrestling never leaves you.

Q: Why AEW?

A: I love new things and I love when people take chances, especially because people took a chance on me at the beginning of my career where there were certain people that didn’t think [I] had the look to be successful in professional wrestling. I would never amount to anything in professional wrestling. So I was the kind of person that went against the grain so to speak. And I love it when people dare to do great things, and everyone at AEW is daring to do great things and I want to be a part of that. I want to be a part of that at the beginning. I don’t want to jump on the wagon afterward.

Q: Had you seen the news of WWE putting NXT on Wednesdays up against AEW?

A: The promoters here were nice enough to inform me of that and I thought that was extremely interesting. Apparently it’s because of the growth of NXT, they decided to put it on Wednesdays. That’s the rumor. NXT is growing, therefore let’s put it on Wednesday nights. Interesting, the timing of that.

Q: What was your reaction when you heard?

A: I find it as a compliment. Let the games begin.

Q: What type of role do you want to have in AEW? How often will we see you around?

A: I want the type of role that’s going to help the generation of the future because I’ve done a lot in wrestling. I don’t feel I have anything to prove in wrestling and I feel very fulfilled in my career, and I think the only thing left now is to run a really successful program that would leave us with superstars that are going to be around for you guys in 10 and 15 years. I want to be involved in that, to run a program with women and or men and build their names up.

Q: Are there people on the AEW roster you look at and say, I’d love to work with them?

A: My career has spanned 17 years, and for a long time I’ve been looking for the perfect woman wrestler to pass on my knowledge to, and I’ve always felt this woman needed to be strong, needed to be humble and needed to be ambitious. And sometimes you get two of those in one person, sometimes you get one. But I feel like I’ve found all three in Nyla Rose.

Q: Have you had a chance to talk to her already?

A: A bit. We’ve only had two shows together, so it’s gonna be a slow burn. I’m excited to start laying out my plan (evil laugh) with our TV [show].

Q: What was it about Nyla Rose that made you feel she was the right person to pass things on to?

A: I feel like her story in the ring and out [of the] ring parallels my own, and I watched her, unbeknownst to her, for a long time and saw how humble — being humble is like No. 1 on my list, too — how well she listens and how giving she is and unselfish she is, and how much she wants to put the product first. She’s not solely interested in making herself the focus and the star. She’s all about the program. I see someone akin to myself in her.

With the success that “Glow” has had, are you looking to expand your acting career? Are there things you’d like to do outside of “Glow”?

A: I would definitely want to break the mold by being one of the first full-figured women action stars.

Q: It felt like this season on “Glow” there was less stress on the wrestling show and more on the characters’ stories. Will we see more of that if there are more seasons?

A: From what I understand, there are a lot more stories to tell with where they want to go. Hopefully Netflix will do all the seasons they want to tell that story in.

Q: There was one episode where the cast members got to switch gimmicks. Is there a “Glow” gimmick you’d really like to try?

A: They let us know that we would be switching gimmicks before we started filming, but they didn’t tell us which gimmicks we would be switching with. But it totally made sense with why I switched into the character (a biddie) that I switched into.

Because that was fun as well, because that day my husband was on the set. They let me ad lib and interact with him. Everything you see leading up to us coming out from behind the curtain to us getting into ring was all ad-libbed. Let’s just go hog wild, full-on ad-libbing and we totally did and it was a great outlet.

So even though I didn’t get to be Melrose, being a biddie was so much fun too. It’s always funny when you hear older people say dirty things, it’s just hilarious and I was just the dirtiest that day on set.

Q: Was it important for “Glow” to show Tammé dealing with an injury and the physical and mental toll wrestling takes on you?

A: Yes, because it parallels actual experiences that not only I had myself, most — not just wrestlers — entertainers have themselves. There is that ego there that I’m not going to let this keep me from performing, that the show must go on, type deal. But there is also that struggle of how far you go to uphold that creed. What lines do you cross and how does it take effect on your health?

I’m so glad that they didn’t overlook that and they didn’t dance around that at all. I actually hope they delve even further. They touched on it. I feel like there is more to go in depth into that.

Q: You and Aja Kong had a stare down at Fight for the Fallen. Did you think the crowd would have the positive reaction it did?

A: I was beyond satisfied with that. They seemed to be receptive and excited for the possibility of Kong versus Kong, the ultimate clash.

Q: You two wrestled in Japan once, correct?

A: We had a singles match back in Japan and [she] gave me that spinning back fist and knocked my lights out. She took me to school that day. I’m glad you reminded me of that. That was like 14, 15 years ago. She’s got some comeback coming at her.

Q: What does it mean to get a chance to contribute in this boom era of women’s wrestling?

A: It’s an honor that the fans still even want me around to be a part of it. It’s exciting to be in the position of mentor for this next generation see what knowledge I can instill in these women and what that’s going to reap.