Chelsea Green in SPLX clothes

Canadian wrestler Chelsea Green has competed all over the world, and is also known for her work in Impact Wrestling as Lauren Van Ness.

The 26-year-old was trained by Lance Storm, and recently joined Suplex Wrestling (SPLX), a clothing and lifestyle brand which promotes the athletic side of professional wrestling.

Green spoke to Metro Sport about her career in wrestling so far, dealing with sexist chants, and living in England.

Hi Chelsea! You’ve recently become a member of the SPLX team. How does that feel?


I’m really excited to be part of their brand. Beforehand, Gail Kim was the only female to join SPLX, so for me to join the ranks of Gail and all the amazing male athletes is so great.



To be on the same level as Zack Sabre Jr and Matt Riddle is amazing. How could I want anything more than that?

It’s an honour to be asked so I was excited to be able to do this and become part of SPLX. This is going to give everyone an insight into my life, my workouts and other things besides wrestling, which I think is great.

Chelsea Green modelling for SPLX

SPLX go beyond pure wrestling and also identify as a lifestyle brand. Is that important to you as well?

I always love to share my workout routines on my social media. To be able to team up with SPLX and share it to their community in depth is great. I want to keep doing that as I grow my own personal brand.

This seems to be a great time to be an independent wrestler. Would you agree with that?

It’s so amazing that to an extent we can compete with WWE. They’re always going to have the mainstream audience, but right now we’ve got so much attention. There is a crazy spotlight on indie wrestling, and that’s amazing because it’s what we love to do, and a lot of us are doing it for a living.

We’re trying to make money and entertain people, and for that to be our sole career. It’s crazy how things have changed and we’re now able to do that without having to work second and third jobs. This isn’t just a hobby, this is our life.

You first became known back in 2014 when you appeared on WWE as the alleged love interest of Daniel Bryan. It was quite an infamous segment, so were you ever worried that you would be defined by it?

I do get asked that a lot, but you know what, I never thought that way because I always knew this wasn’t going to be the only thing I would ever do. No matter what, whether it was WWE, Impact or Stardom, I knew that a one minute segment would never define who I was.

The irony of me saying that is I still do get tweets about that segment and people do still call me Megan Miller, but when I was handed that script I knew I was going to use it as a stepping stone and a platform to go on and do bigger and better things.



Who after six months in the ring gets the chance to be on Monday Night Raw? Not many people, so I used the situation to my advantage.

You’ve wrestled in a lot of different countries already, including in huge shows in India. How was that?

Oh my gosh, it was crazy. On the first day there was about 30,000 people there, and by the second I believe there was around 60,000. The ramp from where we entered to the ring was about 100 metres long, so it was a true Wrestlemania experience being there in a stadium full of people.

It was so surreal, and the energy from the crowd was insane. Of course in the first match that we had I broke my collarbone, so I have mixed feelings!

Chelsea Green

What’s it like breaking your collarbone in a foreign country?

They took such amazing care of me. When I first broke my collarbone they took me to a local hospital, and I can only explain that it felt like a horror movie hospital in the 1950s. Everything was metal and creaky, and that was scary.

The next day they airlifted me to a beautiful hospital and performed surgery on me. They treated me like a princess, they made me milkshakes and had fresh fruit for me every day. The Indian culture it so welcoming, and I felt so comfortable in an uncomfortable situation away from my family.

You’ve also competed for Stardom in Japan and wrestled current NXT star Kairi Sane. What’s it like over there?


I have been there for two tours, and both trips have been amazing but very hard on the body. The Japanese style is so much different from any other style, and that’s something I had to adapt to and learn when I was there.

Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it’s very different from North America, but it’s great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.

On my second tour I wrestled Kairi Hojo, which was a great opportunity that I really wanted to take advantage of. I loved wrestling her, she’s very easy to work, very strong and her endurance is amazing.

We fought for hard for about 20 minutes, and it was one of those moments that I’ll never forget.

How about Europe, have you wrestled here much?

I love the UK, and I think a lot of people don’t realise that I actually went to primary school in England. When I was about six or even I moved there, and I was in the UK for just over a year.

I’ve been in love with the place ever since, and I’ve been back now around three times, but only once to wrestle. My mom and my grandma are British, so it just feels like a second home to me, so to be able to go there and wrestle was amazing, and another bucket list item I could tick off.

So now, I’m trying to put my name all over Europe in the hope I can come back, because I don’t want that to be a one time thing.


Over the past two years my eyes have completely opened to the amazing talent in the UK, the fans and the promotions. I really think that was showcased in the Mae Young Classic when we had people like Viper, Kay Lee Rae and Toni Storm, plus girls in the WWE Performance Centre like Nixon Newell. They’re not just the best talents in Europe, but in the world.

K… Can I get back to the UK now? ?? I miss it already! — Chelsea Green (@ImChelseaGreen) September 25, 2017

Where did you live when you moved to England as a child?

I lived in Devon, it was so beautiful. We lived on a little farm in a cottage and we used to get stuck when we were driving to school because the cows would be crossing the road.

It’s such a dream, I love it!

There’s been a lot of talk recently about sexist comments made by fans while women are wrestling. Have you ever experienced anything like that?

One that sticks out to me was when I was wrestling Nicole Matthews in Vancouver. I was very new and there was some very sexual comments made by a couple of drunk fans. As we were wrestling, Nicole stopped and said something to them.

It did the trick, they stopped what they were saying. There’s such a fine line between letting it affect you, but staying silent about it. I don’t think it’s right to yell at a female like that, it is our place of work and we’re trying to entertain you. Freedom of speech, sure, but to an extent – you have to be respectful, we are humans and we’re working essentially for you.

I do have a time when I hear things in the ring, but me personally I try to ignore it because I find a lot of people are trying to get your attention by screaming profanities or saying sexual things towards women.

But I have a limit as much as anyone else, and if someone did cross that line, I think I would have to say something at the time.

Have you found anything else challenging?

This is very different from the sexual comments, but another thing that makes me frustrated, and I get this a lot, is that I do get a lot of people doing my boyfriends chants at me.

To me, that is very disrespectful and I don’t think people understand that. I have nothing to do with my boyfriend when I step into the ring. I’m not defined by my relationship or who my boyfriend is or where he works.

So it’s very disrespectful when a fan does his chants because he’s not putting in the work in that ring, I am, so sometimes when people do the Zack Ryder chants it really affects me, and I have said some things to people.

You have to figure out, do they want your attention? And if they do, don’t give it to them, do not give them what they want.

You wrestle in Impact Wrestling as Laurel Van Ness, which is a completely different character to Chelsea Green. How much fun is it to play that sort of role?

I started at Impact just over a year ago, and when I signed my deal there my main goal was to have fun, get experience and surround myself with successful people.

As Laurel Van Ness it’s so much fun, and with that comes a creative outlet. You can be who you wanna be and be that particular character. I’m so thankful that Impact allows me to do that.

There are a lot of companies that give you a character and moulds you to be that character, and with these insane psycho characters, you can’t have a mould, you have to just go out there, and they allow me to do it.

I’ve had so much fun being this crazy, jilted bride and then to be paired with people like Grado is amazing.

What’s the dressing room atmosphere like in Impact Wrestling?

We have such a good vibe backstage in the locker room, especially with the Knockouts. All of us are such good friends and we have group chats, we talk everywhere. It’s important to have a little family, and that’s what we’ve got going on.

We’re all in the same boat, we all go our own separate ways when we’re not working for Impact, but when we’re there Impact is our home and we want to make it as successful as we possibly can.

Finally, if we’re having a conversation again in 12 months time, what do you hope to have achieved?

I want to keep the same role going with Impact, and I want people to laugh at me and to talk about my storylines that I’m coming up with for the character.

Outside of Impact, I really hope that people see the Chelsea Green wrestler, and I want to have some really solid matches that people look at and think she doesn’t haven’t to hide behind her character, she isn’t just Laurel Van Ness, Chelsea Green is an amazing wrestler who is stepping up to the plate.