5 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dark (Jan 19)

1. PPA, No Way

Peter Avalon
AEW

Pretty Peter's Pageant Provocation is going to the next level. The Walk Off will see "three pretty judges" run their eyes over a competitive catwalk strut, with Avalon calling Lee Johnson out as his first opponent after handing the Nightmare Family affiliate an 8x10 last week.

Johnson and Avalon will determine who is the better man via fashion show. Here's a radical idea: how about a wrestling match instead?

Avalon is charismatic and pulls this goofy character off better than most would, but this gimmicky non-comedy is the exact kind of content AEW should be veering away from in the quest to find a more cohesive tone in 2021. At least it's going down on Dark, not Dynamite.

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