7 Ups & 5 Downs For AEW Collision (26 August)
3. Back To The Old Formula
One of the biggest gripes about AEW Collision - and the wider AEW product - has been its formulaic, tired approach to its female talent.
Week after week, the women's roster would get around eight minutes of Collision ring time, with three minutes of that taking place during a picture-in-picture commercial break. Then, last week saw mild improvement in how Willow Nightingale and Diamante got 12 minutes between the ropes, and so there was a smidge of optimism that maybe the ladies of AEW were to get more time to wrestle on Collision from here on out, or that, even crazier, maybe one day we'll actually get two women's matches.
Sadly, it was very much back to the 'norm' on this week's Collision.
For poor Willow and Robyn Renegade, it was back to the eight minutes of action, three of which were in picture-in-picture.
As ever, the talent involved did well with what they had - even if there was a smidge too much obvious interference from Charlette Renegade - and it was no surprise to see Nightingale pick up the W. What makes this week's Collision even more frustrating, though, is that it was a show brimming with so much filler ahead of All In later today.
That's not to say necessarily it would've been the right call to have Willow and Robyn get a competitive 15-minute match, per se - after all, Nightingale is way higher on the food chain right now - but surely on an episode clearly filled with matches and segments designed to merely take up time and not rock the boat too much before All In, could we have not got a second women's match?
Do better, Tony.