Women's division rant

[holyshida]

Let's be real here, the Women's division is shockingly awful right now, not the talent there's tons of it from top to bottom, just the nonexistent booking.

Shida/Deeb has been going on since last year. Time to move on now, Shida needs to slot back into the title picture and Deeb needs to win the Owen Hart Cup.

Statlander/Leyla has also been going on since last year, they've done nothing to build Statlander up as a title contender.

Cargill has been building her 30th match with Marina for 4 weeks now, that's a clear sign that they've run out of steam on her title reign

Rosa is feuding with f***ing Nyla in her first title defence after finally winning the title that she should've won 3 months ago

Anna and Tay have potential megastar potential but have been either booked terrible or not at all. Tay was the most over babyface in the division last year and TK thought it was a good idea to bring her real life relationship with Sammy on TV, turning the most over babyface into getting go away heat takes some skill. And don't get me started with how he's treated Anna, he's no idea what a star he's got on his hands, never booked on TV, what a waste

Ruby Soho has also been living on Dark for a couple of months, she was over as hell when she got to AEW, not so much anymore

Lack of care as well. Like 5 matches have been announced for Dynamite and no women's match. All the mens matches have story and build to it as well, whereas the Women's matches are always just chucked together at the last minute, that right there should give you an idea the TK gives no f***s about the womens division.

I saw what the great job TK did with Yuta last night in building him up. Why is he so incapable of building up the women like that. There's 20+ women on the roster and only 3 or 4 are being booked to their potential.

Honestly I'm a big fan of a few of the Women but it's got to the point where I've stopped caring about this awful division. Something needs to change

[Mozenrath]

Do you make this thread every two days?

[smokinvokoun86]

I realize the Women’s division is an issue. But it seems like all these threads send up the same way.

[Deleted]

In before locked… again

[markymark]

Apr 9, 2022 14:42:12 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Do you make this thread every two days?

To be fair I wish there was a Women Discussion thread (again) as long as everyone behaves properly.

And if this thread is going to be locked soon, I will say that I agree that Shida vs Serena needs to end soon, like Jason Powell mentioned in his report, this is now pretty much like Peter vs the Chicken feud.

[holyshida]

Apr 9, 2022 14:42:12 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Do you make this thread every two days?

Nah, these are legitamite complaints

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

They should really push Anna Jay more

[asuka007]

Honestly if the Shida vs. Deeb feud ends before they even get one match on PPV, that will be disappointing imo.

[holyshida]

Apr 9, 2022 15:03:47 GMT -5 The Summer of Muskrat XVII said:

They should really push Anna Jay more

Let's be real, if she was on TV more than once every 2 months she'd be getting pushed a lot better than what she currently is. What a waste of potential. TK has really dropped the ball with her. If anyone needs to jump ship it's her. How can you Butcher a comeback so badly? 2 years with the company and still hadn't won a singles match on Dynamite. TK is clueless on how to book her. And despite all that she's still over AF and selling tons of merch. She posted on her twitter than she was top 10 in action figures this week. She's also good in the ring and shines every time she's on TV and puts on good matches, there's really no excuses for this bullshit

[Tiger Millionaire]

Yeah, everything sucks and when Anna Jay isn't on the screen all the announcers need to be asking "Where's Anna Jay"?

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

I like Anna a lot but I do think she's more of a "champion in two to three years" than a champion this year. She still has some growing to do as a performer both in the ring and as a character. She may be always tied to the Dark Order and for good reason but I'd like to see how she does in a Hangman position where she's basically part of it but mainly does her own thing. I don't think she's that far off from that but if I were to make a comparison to the men, she's closer to where Lee Moriarty is as opposed to Jungle Boy.

[holyshida]

Apr 9, 2022 16:02:57 GMT -5 Tiger Millionaire said:

Yeah, everything sucks and when Anna Jay isn't on the screen all the announcers need to be asking "Where's Anna Jay"?

excellent way to miss every point I made lol

[dbrussel]

The booking right now is the best (with more girls involved) in months. Could be much better of course.

Britt taking a vacation helped, we'll see what happens when she comes back

Hope the Owen Tournament feels like a real one when it starts

[holyshida]

Apr 9, 2022 16:12:24 GMT -5 "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik said:

I like Anna a lot but I do think she's more of a "champion in two to three years" than a champion this year. She still has some growing to do as a performer both in the ring and as a character. She may be always tied to the Dark Order and for good reason but I'd like to see how she does in a Hangman position where she's basically part of it but mainly does her own thing. I don't think she's that far off from that but if I were to make a comparison to the men, she's closer to where Lee Moriarty is as opposed to Jungle Boy.

That's a fair point, she obviously does need to grow as a performer, but there's a big jump between making her Women's champion than putting her on TV where she delivers every time, the last time she was on TV she shined against Jade, that was 3 months ago and TK has failed in capitalising in the momentum she had from that match. How can she breakthrough when she's never given a chance to breakthrough. She could be the breakout star in the division this year if allowed

[Deleted]

Just leave them alone and ignore the thread. I feel a bit worried about them.

[Tiger Millionaire]

Apr 9, 2022 16:13:46 GMT -5 holyshida said:

Apr 9, 2022 16:02:57 GMT -5 Tiger Millionaire said:

Yeah, everything sucks and when Anna Jay isn't on the screen all the announcers need to be asking "Where's Anna Jay"?

excellent way to miss every point I made lol

Just cutting to the chase.

[This Player Hating Mothman]

So there's never any build for women's matches and that's bad, but they've given weeks of promotion to Jade's 30th match to make it a big deal and puff it up, and that's. Also bad?

[Deleted]

Apr 9, 2022 18:04:29 GMT -5 Tiger Millionaire said:

Apr 9, 2022 16:13:46 GMT -5 holyshida said:

excellent way to miss every point I made lol

Just cutting to the chase.

Well I can definitely see why this board has a big "CALM THE HELL DOWN" post on top.

We really need to be nicer to each other. It's getting very hard to talk about AEW.

[J is Justice]

I'm new to AEW, but one match for the women per show doesn't seem enough to me.

I disagree about Ruby not being over, though; she gets a good reaction whenever I've watched.

[Deleted]

I'm the first to tell anyone who asks that the women's division needs some work, but this horse is beyond dead and has now been beaten into dust.

Things ARE improving, slowly. Jade is turning into a star. Shida and Deeb will have a great "workers who know how to work" match with some real heat behind it. Julia Hart seems to be getting a personality with the heel turn coming. Even the Rosa/Nyla feud is at least back to being passable instead of the absolute clusterf*** it started as.

You can't fix the problems that are present overnight. The only thing that isn't trending upward is the 930 pre-main event deathslot for the women's matches.