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5. The Biggest Self-Own In AEW History?
"It's International Women's Day, you know what that means."
And with that, and Ruby Soho or Skye Blue or any woman's music not hitting, AEW invited yet more valid criticism and outright mockery for their inability to break away from the rigid format of one women's match per show on Dynamite.
The line was a cute take on the catchphrase and a worthwhile acknowledgement of an important celebration on the calendar, but was the disastrous dictionary definition of telling not showing. Like corporate charities or pro-cause branding from companies with rank HR records, this - like a tweet earlier in the day - brought yet more attention to the longest standing consistent problem in All Elite Wrestling's history.
The jokes - themselves gallows humour at this point - are being written on the reg without AEW supplying the feed lines.
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