10 Wrestlers You Totally Forgot Worked For AEW

8. Cameron

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This was...well, it was inexplicable, let's face it.

In a bid to knock back criticism of a women's division that was under-developed, to use a euphemism, AEW in the summer of 2020 ran a Women's Tag Team Cup on YouTube. Despite not promoting a women's tag team division.

Why?

The answer depends on the extent to which you are cynical. It was either an earnest platform to allow a green roster more reps away from the scrutiny of national television, a vehicle to get Brandi Rhodes over, or some sh*te they put on the internet to get critics off their back.

In the first round, Tay Conti and Anna Jay - who have both improved exponentially since, which might just prove that the widespread mockery probably wasn't justified - defeated Nyla Rose and the former Cameron, who performed as Ariana Andrew. She wasn't a particularly great wrestler. She once covered an opponent who was laying on her belly, which is more or less the same as a footballer scoring an own goal on purpose.

If this was an attempt to replicate the magic of the Asuka/Miz Mixed Match Challenge - Andrew being bad terrified Nyla Rose into thinking they'd lose etc. - it didn't work.

 
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