Chelsea Green feels she has yet to have a match in WWE that meets the standard she set for herself.
Speaking with Cody Rhodes on his What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast recently, Green said that none of her matches since returning to the promotion are among her favorites.
“I thought I would be having all my best and most beloved wrestling matches in WWE, but I’m actually so much harder on myself in WWE,” Green said. “My standard is raised and I haven’t met my standard yet.”
Green is hoping that by the next time she talks with Rhodes, she’ll have a defining WWE match she can point to. As of now, her best work has come outside of WWE, on the independent scene.
“But I actually just think some of the best matches I ever had were just out there on the indies,” she said. “I don’t even know what town or what. I just remember the opponent and the feelings.”
Green mentioned matches in Pittsburgh and Milwaukee without getting into specifics and highlighted her match against Penta on Lucha Underground in 2018. In January, on Netflix’s WWE: Unreal, Green called the bout the most insane match of her career and ruled out a rematch. This came despite Penta, who is now also in WWE, saying in April 2025 that he was ready to face her again. For Green, the reason is simple:
“You cannot redo perfection.”
Green lost the WWE Women’s Championship on Saturday at Crown Jewel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Tiffany Stratton cashed in her Money in the Bank contract on Green, who had just defeated Liv Morgan to win the Women’s Crown Jewel Championship. Green’s title reign ended after 97 days.
On the same episode, Green named her ladder match win at SummerSlam in August, which earned her the WWE Women’s Championship, as the biggest moment of her career, followed by the first All In in 2018. While the biggest moment of Green’s career came in WWE, she believes her best match there is still to come.