6 Ups & 3 Downs For AEW Collision (June 1 - Results & Review)

2. Somehow Even Shorter In-Ring Shrift Than Usual

This week's two-hour broadcast of AEW Collision featured just three minutes of in-ring action for the company's women. Well, that technically isn't entirely true, as one of those women wasn't even an AEW talent.

Thunder Rosa is great, and Reina Dorada - having seen her work a couple of shows for House of Glory recently - certainly has promise. But seriously, how can you have such a stacked roster of female talent, yet constantly give them such short-shrift, particularly when it comes to bell time and particularly when it comes to Collision?

It's almost as if Tony Khan reads these regular complaints and thinks, "Now, how I can piss the complainers off even more next week?" Usually, Collision tends to feature one seven or eight-minute women's match, which inevitably finds itself butchered by a picture-in-picture commercial that means only about four minutes of ring time is properly aired. This week, the ladies didn't even get that.

Of course, a dominant win for Thunder Rosa was a nice way to a) keep the extremely talented La Mera Mera on TV, and b) give her a comprehensive win as she looks to avenge her loss to Deonna Purrazzo. The problem is, when that three-minute squash is the sole segment of women's wrestling on a two-hour broadcast, that's just ludicrous.

For the millionth time, this isn't something your writer or any of us at WhatCulture enjoy having to complain about, but it's again something that has to be called out each and every time AEW treats its women with such contempt when it comes to actually allowing them to wrestle.

Also, one has to question why a non-contracted, effectively enhancement talent was allowed to kick out of such a fantastic, brutal-looking Tijuana Bomb prior to Rosa getting the tap-out win.