Tony Khan not too long ago claimed that AEW’s long-promised Ladies’s Tag Crew Title Event is on maintain as a result of accidents throughout the ladies’s division.
Based on the AEW boss, too many sidelined skills have made it unattainable to type a correct bracket. However wrestling journalists Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez aren’t shopping for it — and so they didn’t maintain again. On Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer took a tough have a look at Khan’s logic and broke it down by the numbers.
“He’s claiming that he can not do these ladies’s tag staff titles as a result of there’s too many accidents. Sure. Okay. Nicely, I went via the whole roster… there’s 39 ladies listed on the roster web page. I’m excluding Mama Wayne, who it lists as a competitor. 5 of these ladies are damage. One we imagine has a visa problem. And certainly one of them is Britt Baker. Okay? That’s seven ladies out of 38. That leaves 31 ladies left. 31 ladies. You want 16 for a match.”
Bryan Alvarez chimed in along with his signature sarcasm, mocking the concept AEW couldn’t transfer ahead with brackets.
“Who’s he ready for? Jamie Hayter? Thunder Rosa? Riho?”
Meltzer agreed, mentioning that even with a couple of lacking high stars, the corporate has greater than sufficient names able to go.
“Okay, that’s two… however we’ve nonetheless obtained 30 different ladies at the very least.”
Alvarez didn’t maintain again on how absurd he thought the excuse was.
“He didn’t wish to put brackets out till he had the entire thing finalized. However Dave — he’s completed brackets earlier than the place he simply places in ‘TBA.’ That’s preposterous. Simply put Bang Bang Gang or ‘TBA.’ That’s what each match does. You don’t maintain off a whole match bracket due to one staff. Ridiculous.”
Meltzer then hit the core problem — how this transfer appears to the remainder of AEW’s feminine expertise.
“If I had been one of many different 30 ladies, I’d be fairly upset. Like, what — 16 of us aren’t ok to be within the match?”
The dialog ended with the suggestion that Khan may be holding off for the return of high stars like Mercedes Moné, Toni Storm, Athena, or Jamie Hayter. However the obvious problem stays: AEW has a stacked roster of girls able to go — and followers are uninterested in ready.
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