10 Biggest Missed AEW Opportunities

The huge caveat here, of course, is that injuries are an unfortunate part of professional wrestling and can derail even the greatest of best laid plans.

For all intents and purposes, it felt as if Kris Statlander was going to be the one to finally hand Jade Cargill her first loss and take the TBS Title from That Bitch. That was, until injury struck and poor Stat now finds herself once again on the sidelines with a major injury.

Having been with AEW since November 2019, the former Galaxy's Greatest Alien's shift to a more serious character earlier this year marked Statlander out as a genuine contender to take Jade's crown, with All Out '22 seemingly the perfect, logical place for this monumental moment to take place.

Instead, it was Athena who (unsuccessfully) challenged Cargill at All Out, and the War Goddess clearly felt like a back-up option who was only in that match because Stat suffered a torn ACL just weeks before the PPV.

With Statlander obviously now out of the conversation for the next several months, AEW has - by no fault of their own - missed out on the opportunity to take the TBS Title off Jade and start to position her as a threat to the AEW Women's Title. When looking around at the rest of the female roster, there really is no obvious choice - well, bar a babyface Jamie Hayter - to dethrone Cargill any time soon, meaning Jade is likely to be 'stuck' with the TBS Championship for the foreseeable future.