12 Most INSANE Things Wrestlers Have EVER Said On AEW TV
11. Brandi Rhodes Runs Wild
The Brandi Rhodes AEW run was possibly the most bizarre in the young history of the promotion. It was certainly the most uneven.
The constant whiplash was intense.
Brandi started out as a sort of manipulative parody of Stephanie McMahon, with her oversight of and meddling in the women’s division. It was atrocious. Then, as the furious valet promising bloody vengeance, she played a superb role in the vastly underrated Cody Vs. Shawn Spears programme. After that, her am-dram supernatural leanings as the mastermind behind the Nightmare Collective contributed heavily towards AEW’s shockingly premature late-2019 decline. This strange pattern - of good, then awful, and nothing in-between - continued.
Nobody expected it, after some shocking in-ring experiments underscored why she was originally a ring announcer, but her September 10, 2020 Late Night Dynamite match opposite Anna Jay was one of the most emphatic over-deliveries in recent memory.
Weirdly obsessed with getting over as a heel, Rhodes was an effective member of the supporting cast as a babyface. She had the fire - and she breathed it in a takedown of Jade Cargill that sits somewhere between infamous and legendary.
Look, the November 11, 2020 promo must have been pretty great, since Brandi created an entry in the pro wrestling lexicon: “Who the hell told you tonight was open mic night, bitch?”
It was unhinged and chaotic, but Christ almighty, the rhythmic delivery was superb, her facial expressions were fierce, and after it was over, you really wouldn’t have wanted to piss her off.