WWE Just Exposed AEW's Most Embarrassing Flaw

Eddie Kingston and Chris Jericho's Barbed Wire Everything match was an overbooked mess, but the fact that well over half a year of television and pay-per-view went into it only makes things worse.

Time has proven precious - too precious - for All Elite Wrestling, with three hours a week to try and get as many wrestlers and angles over as possible. But NXT 2.0, the idiotic sex crazed soft play quasi-developmental has somehow managed to embarrass AEW at its own game.

Cora Jade Vs Roxanne Perez and Zoey Stark Vs Mandy Rose will not be better than Kenny Omega Vs Hangman Page and CM Punk Vs MJF - they just simply won't - but they've been given the best chance to be better than about 80% of every women's match in Dynamite history. AEW seems to show no signs of fixing what just about every fan has acknowledged as mostly broken when it comes to the bleak penultimate quarter hour pattern, but hidden away amongst the silly semen-soaked sh*t on a Tuesday is a division that has quietly rebuilt itself in a manner not dissimilar to how the black-and-gold brand would when Vince McMahon used to come calling.

Many of the present day wrestlers are short of the the in-ring excellence of those groups in years gone by, but 2.0 as a developmental league permits room for improvement even if said room needs to be more generously spacious than the Performance Center itself. If these women are getting one thing though, it's reps. Those reps should improve ability, and improved ability will lead to inclusion in deeper, stronger stories. In the story of Cora Jade from episode one to present, there's now actually televised evidence to support this process.

AEW, three years and one easily-won ratings war later, still cannot present that.