Britt Baker

On Friday night, Athena and Willow Nightingale had one of the best matches, not just women’s matches, of 2023 on Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor PPV. Not only was it the culmination of a three-match trilogy through both ROH and AEW,…

I’ll get my biases out of the way up top. I’ll never fully buy reality TV as “reality.” It’s hard for me to believe that anyone can act fully natural with a camera around, even if they say that after a while of being followed by them they…

AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter (center)Screenshot: AEWA rising tide lifts all boats, so they tell me. The tide on the women’s side of AEW, for pretty much its entire three-plus-year existence, seemed pretty stagnant, with the…

Screenshot: AEWCapping off a week of pretty wild wrestling news, I suppose it was somewhat comforting that it ended with a familiar dumbass debate within the industry. Talks of board takeovers and sales to oppressive foreign regimes, that’s…

Mercedes Moné didn’t appear on AEW DynamiteImage: Getty ImagesIt was such a perfect setting for Mercedes Moné, the former Sasha Banks, to arrive on AEW Dynamite last night. It’s not that Tony Khan could have possibly known ahead of time…

Screenshot: AEW/TBS“Starksdom?” I’ll show myself out.For the core AEW fan, the current state of the company has gone from a little anxious to very exciting. The company continues to pivot to its younger stars, resetting a foundation for…

Screenshot: AEWThe main conclusion of AEW’s Full Gear PPV on Saturday night is that the company is ready to move into a different time, headed by some of the younger guys on its roster. Two of its “pillars” bookended the show, as Jungle Boy…

Salt of the earthScreenshot: AEWThough he’d probably never admit it, and what pisses him off most is that MJF knows it (MJF’s whole character is knowing the things you don’t want to talk about), Tony Khan would tell you with no one else…

Jamie Hayter has gotten over despite playing second fiddle to Dr. Britt BakerScreenshot: All Elite WrestlingFor those of us hoping that Saraya’s arrival in the AEW women’s division would signal an instant uptick in the time allotted, a…

SarayaScreenshot: AEWNo…not that one. Though it’s a good one, if the movie was a touch of WWE propaganda. We’ll get back to this. It has been a rare occurrence that after an AEW show, the women’s division was creating the most buzz. It’s…