5 Ups & 3 Downs For AEW Collision (Oct 14 - Results & Review)

1. More Familiar Problems

While this week's Collision featured further technical issues for AEW, it once again also saw the horrendous treatment of the company's female wrestlers.

As is frustratingly commonplace, the two-hour broadcast of Collision featured one sole women's match, which ran for nine minutes, of which three minutes were spent in a picture-in-picture ad break. It would be absolutely lovely to write a Collision Ups & Downs and detail how the show featured more than one women's match, or a women's match that didn't go to picture-in-picture, or another 15-minute women's main event, ala Kris Statlander and Britt Baker last month.

This week, Statlander and Skye Blue worked well together, with Stat continuing to be one of the most impressive performers in the company and Blue improving with each passing week. The new 'edge' for Skye admittedly feels a little too cheesy right now, and it'll take more than a few eye rolls and sticking her tongue out to get this tweak to fully click, but there's clearly plenty of time for that to come together.

Statlander of course retained her TBS Title, but it's tough not to give these women's matches a Down when AEW is adamant about sticking to such a ridiculous formula on Collision and beyond.

Tony, please do better. There's more than enough talented ladies on that roster to give the division more than just nine minutes of in-ring action - complete with those P-inP breaks, nonetheless - each week.