6 Ups & 4 Downs From AEW Dynamite (13 April)

3. Nyla Rose & Thunder Rosa's Cake-Faced Brawl

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Segments like this do nothing to dispel the view that Tony Khan doesn't know how to book his women's division.

Thunder Rosa and Nyla Rose's brawl played out like something from a bad mid-2000s episode of WWE Raw. Rose and Vickie Guerrero approached the Women's World Champion with a cake, which was predictably shoved in Nyla's face. 'The Native Beast' was then made to pull it down slowly in pseudo-comedic fashion before brawling with Rosa, putting her into a flight case, having accidentally struck Vickie.

Because cake.

A lame prop brawl that did nothing to generate excitement for Rose vs. Rosa at Battle Of The Belts, this was the exact kind of rote, pithy segment AEW should be trying to avoid putting its multi-talented women through.

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