AEW TV Megathread

[El-P]

17 minutes ago, Blehschmidt said:

How dare you sir! She is Scottish!

Ok, that was inexcusable, I reckon. Shame on me !

Yeah, the few I've seen of her she seems to be pretty good, and with a good look/character. She's been paired with the GYV on ROH, inexplicably (I mean, fo no reason they are doing 6 person tags seemingly just for this trio to be pushed as an act), but they are kinda clicking together.

[El-P]

Speaking of early 90's WCW cheese, that last segment of Dynamite was certainly a fun twist on this. Not too sure what the point of the four way was though, apart from making you want to see a Ricochet vs Hangman match that is not coming (for now ?).

The Blodd & Guts match will most probably be terrific, but I'm not crazy about having it the WWE way where two gimmick matches happen on the same show just because. It makes it non-organic, and honestly now the women Blood & Guts will get overshadowed. Oh well.

4-way tag team was awesome. Right team won.

Sister of Sins winning is interesting, as I thought they were going for Moné & Athena in the finals, but that would mean heels vs heels in the semi, which of course they could do. Sucks for Penelope though, I was looking forward to see her in B&G. 

Okada vs Takeshita is gonna be a billion stars, plus a few more if they do it at the Tokyo Dome.

[sek69]

Popped big for Don Callis pulling out a "malfunction in the junction" in 2025.

[sek69]

So AEW is creating another title, the National championship, which has already caused Mike Mondo (who has the NWA National title) to crash out on social media about how his is the "real" one. 

It's interesting how they are very clearly trying to link their title to the one from Georgia in the 80s, considering that's all part of WWE's intellectual property these days. 

[Stiva]

I love Tony Khan’s absolute joy in announcing more titles and seeing people go mad about it. I assume we’ll be getting US Tag belts sometime in 2026

[sek69]

Hey I grew up watching JCP every weekend, so having a million belts doesn't bother me. I'm just hoping they aren't going to end up giving WWE something to be petty about because they seem to be in that kind of mood lately.

[MikeCampbell]

On 11/6/2025 at 12:09 AM, sek69 said:

So AEW is creating another title, the National championship, which has already caused Mike Mondo (who has the NWA National title) to crash out on social media about how his is the "real" one. 

It's interesting how they are very clearly trying to link their title to the one from Georgia in the 80s, considering that's all part of WWE's intellectual property these days. 

Oh man, this blew up like crazy on Twitter/X. With folks arguing about whether or the lineage of the National Title ended in 1986 with Nikita merging it with the US Title and that Mondo's belt is a seperate entity that shares a name, or if Mondo's title is the same one since it was an NWA Title.  I personally think that, since all the titles that Crockett was using carried over to WCW and then WWF, that the person with the best claim to being the actual National Champion is Ilja Dragunov.

[strobogo]

Lmao who gives a shit? There's no such thing as a title lineage. Nerds getting bent out of shape that AEW has another title lol

[sek69]

I'll say that my favorite thing to do was look at the last page of The Wrestler and see their roll call of champions from all over the world, so in a sense I get it. It's not just a pro wrestling thing, I've seen people get bent out of shape in MMA and boxing over interm champs and when boxers vacate titles because the governing body wants them to fight their designated tomato can and not the money fight everyone actually wants to see. 

 

Also good for Mike Mondo, he got folks remembering the NWA still exists for the first time since the early POWERRRRRRRRRRRR days. 

[Tetsujin]

I just thought that Mondo guy was taking advantage to gain some eyes on him. No big deal, everyone should do stuff like that to try and put themselves over. People obviously overreacted because tribalism and thinking they're smarter than anyone and kayfabe is dead, when it actually is heavily alive and stuff like this still proves it.

[sek69]

So Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize walked out an hour before Collision after being asked to lose to TayJay. Apparently they weren't happy about their first match was a three minute squash and balked about losing two weeks in a row. 

[El-P]

AEW introducing *another* title : yawn. 

Hurt Syndicate immediately being involved with it : MAJOR FUCKING YAWN.

Funny how they consistently have been about the worst thing in the promotion for a year now. Can we get Ricochet out of this vortex of suck already ? 

4 hours ago, sek69 said:

So Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize walked out an hour before Collision after being asked to lose to TayJay. Apparently they weren't happy about their first match was a three minute squash and balked about losing two weeks in a row. 

Yeah, it apparently "hurts their brand". 😂 What is their brand exactly ? "Two dumb bitch burning bridges" ? Nixon was complaining months ago about not getting booking. She sure not gonna get much more after pulling out that shit, nowhere in any major promotion anyway. And her MAGA/TERF girlfriend is someone I'm glad I won't have to watch. 

Honestly, there will come a point where TK is just not gonna even bother with ex WWE people at all (and actually this kind of booking is weeding out the stupid pretty good). Which really sucks for anyone being employed by WWE, because that is a stain that could prevent you from even getting a look from AEW. What a bunch of geniuses, really.

Anywoo. The stip for Fletcher/ Briscoe is great, because that way *anything* really can happen. I saw it coming too as it was happening, Stardom classic stip just popped into me head, picturing Mark as SLK or something.

Harley & Willow winning was kinda "predictable" after last week, also I didn't expected Mercedes to work twice at the PPV. Tournament is more unpredictable now too, as Willow/Harley are a good fit for first champs too, just as Tony/Mina for obvious reasons. And Sister of Sins could also be considered now (although I very much doubt they will win). I hope they don't forget about that Mercedes/Athena team though, because there's way too much potential for great shit to do.

Oh yeah, heels FTR with Stoke are just some of the best stuff they ever did in AEW. I love Brodido, but them as anchors of the division would be pretty awesome.

[El-P]

Meanwhile, apparently Zayda Steel was at Collision and will eventually appear on ROH. Interesting considering she left the WWEID nonsense of her own. She was a fun character in MLW a while back. Still green as grass from in-ring standpoint when I saw her in Marigold last year (the very few I've watched of that promotion) but definitely someone I don't mind having on my weekly wrestling regime.

[MikeCampbell]

8 hours ago, sek69 said:

So Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize walked out an hour before Collision after being asked to lose to TayJay. Apparently they weren't happy about their first match was a three minute squash and balked about losing two weeks in a row. 

Bruh, if I hadn't seen this post, I wouldn't have even remembered they were on the show last week. And WTF is "their brand" right now? Whatever, enjoy being the top women's team in the NWA.

[C.S.]

Miranda Alize is apparently a TERF, which is certainly a choice for an LGB (I guess no T for her) woman. She's in a relationship with Nixon, who - to be fair - apparently does not share those views. I wonder if this is a case of Nixon getting bad advice from her dumb-as-bricks nobody of a partner.

[sek69]

That appears to be the case, as Nixon seems to be working overtime to do damage control about the whole situation. 

[El-P]

Damage control being that they wanted "more time for their match". Sure girls, you're brought up to put someone else over, not get your shit in. Apparently Leila Grey (actually Taya Walkyrie too) pointed out plenty of workers *under contract* would love more TV time too, which is actually a great point, that is if any point needed to be made. In the end it's still two dumbasses with an overinflated sense of themselves playing the "that doesn't work for us, brothers".

Let's not pretend Nixon has to be the smart one just because she's not a MAGA shithead (why is she dating one then ? oh well, people. Maybe she shares *some* of her beliefs, ya know). She was complaining months ago about not getting bookings, but I never heard anything about her from her WWE tenure, and now she thinks she's some big shot that needs to be competitive with two actual member of the roster who have been there for years and are taking part in a tournament for new belts. And yeah, fuck Miranda Alizee and her hateful views.

(EDIT : and now Nixon said on her Twitch that she got a bunch of death greats, which of course is completely abhorrent and awful. What's up with dumb fucks sending death threats to people, especially women ? Internet was a bad idea)

[Tetsujin]

Not wanting to be booked just for a three minute women match in an already problematic company when it comes to giving the women's division as much importance as the men's, doesn't sound bad to me at all. Funny how many "you should be grateful of any tv time you're given/you should do your job because that's why it's a job" people are appearing all of a sudden when that exact alienated mentality is the one that led Vince to build basically a cult of his personality in order to create the most horrendous wrestling product ever for decades. I guess we're still suffering the consequences even within the supposed main alternative.

And yeah, it fucking sucks that Nox's girlfriend is a terf, but that's sadly besides the point. The point is that male wrestlers have far more opportunities to still make a name despite being booked in three minute squashes as nobodies, because wrestling is a men's world sadly. Women? Not so much. I'm happy there's a statement of "don't give me three minutes when you're giving men the other 57 minutes of the show" out here now. The ones making said statement? Couldn't care less, and if one's a terf then fuck her and hope I'll never ear from her again. But that's a different story.

[El-P]

They've been hired for enhancement matches. That's what you do. Lose in 3 minutes. The rest is irrelevant. There were two other women matches on the same show, that went 10mn +. Also, there are regularly men squash matches on TV on Collision.

It has *nothing* to do with how the women division is handled and everything to do with a WWE coded person and her dumbfuck gf having an overinflated sense of ego. And it's drama for social media engagement that everyone will have forgotten in three days also, really.

[MikeCampbell]

2 hours ago, Tetsujin said:

Not wanting to be booked just for a three minute women match in an already problematic company when it comes to giving the women's division as much importance as the men's, doesn't sound bad to me at all.

You probably won't like hearing this because it's another Vince-ism, but it's the truth. They were given an opportunity. They could have spent those three minutes making Tay and Jay look like killers for their upcoming tournament match, and that leads to more bookings and getting more time to work. Hell, look at how over Max Caster got this year by getting his ass kicked in two minutes or less.

[El-P]

18 minutes ago, MikeCampbell said:

Hell, look at how over Max Caster got this year by getting his ass kicked in two minutes or less.

Queen Aminata was a jobber for like three years. Doing 3 minutes and less jobs on Dark and Dark Elevation. The Youtube shows. Worked out ok for her.

(and damn I am gutted about her getting injured just as she was gonna go into Blood & Guts, she would have ruled in this. Penelope and her worked so hard those last few months, it's really too bad)

[DMJ]

* No clue why TK decided to add another title to the mix. Unifying the Continental and International Championships was one of the best decisions he made this year (along with putting it on Okada). To me, those two decisions made it very clear what the pecking order was - AEW World Champion, then Unified Champion, then TNT Champion. And, right now, the stature of the talents makes that especially clear as Page is a tried-and-true AEW main eventer, Okada is kinda right below that (but is likely the bigger international star), and Kyle Fletcher is that perfect IC/TV title-level guy. What exactly does this new championship do? How does it slot in? I just see absolutely no reason for its existence, especially after how long AEW got criticized for having too many championships even by its biggest supporters (it definitely helped that WWE seemingly saw this criticism, said "Hold my beer," and proceeded to invent 2 more Women's Championships that nobody asked for).

*  The drama around Newell and Alize is...just...*groan.* It's the epitome of "wrestling bubble" psuedo-scandal. You would have had to be a super-duper NXT 2018-2020 era fan to even know who Newell was/is because she had few spotlight moments or matches on the main roster. If Newell is barely a "name," Alize is a rung or two beneath that. They simply don't have the resume or name value to warrant much beyond being enhancement talent. 

However...I don't hate any wrestler standing up for themselves if they believe they are worthy of more screen time. I also doubt it was as simple as them seeing "3 minutes" on the rundown sheet and ghosting. I might have read it wrong, but wasn't there a segment with them and TayJay prior to Collision? I didn't see the segment, but I can understand Newell and Alize feeling like, "Hey, we had a segment to build to the TayJay match, the match should probably be at least 5-6 minutes and competitive, especially after we lost last week too." And, if you're Newell and Alize, you might also be thinking, "Hey, isn't this the place where TK is kinda known to let wrestlers take risks with their characters and sink-or-swim? Well, we'd like a chance to swim as the first openly dating/lesbian women's tag team*."

The only reason this story became a story is because its kinda been a slow news week, the power of Twitter/X, and the fact that the 24 hour news cycle exists in the pro-wrestling bubble just as much as any other sport. It is also a story that, in and of it itself means very, very little (as noted above, Newell hasn't been relevant for at least 4-5 years now) but does make for a fun diving board into more abstract topics like what the value of NXT is now compared to years ago for young talent.

In hindsight, I also feel bad for Newell and Alize a little. They made a bad long-term decision based on what I presumed was short-term optimism. I think they believed that they would come into AEW, do their thing, and land contracts in short order based on Newell's minor "name" and the fact that Alize had put in plenty of work in ROH not long ago. I think they believed that was enough. I mean, why wouldn't it be? Doesn't AEW just sign anybody and everybody?

Well, once upon a time, sure, but AEW's women's division is no longer desperate for bodies. It still can't touch the WWE's division in star power or experience level, but AEW also doesn't have to just settle for WWE's hand-me-downs (and their girlfriends/boyfriends). 

I can understand Newell and Alize wanting to come into AEW at the first opportunity, but their best move would've been to "barnstorm" a bit more, to get over on the indies and on the internet and to possibly test the waters internationally. I don't know if it's a super trustworthy site but Cagematch lists only about a dozen matches over the course of a little over a year between Newell leaving the WWE and coming into AEW. And none of those matches saw her tagging with Alize. If there were something worth developing with the two working as a tag team, utilizing their real-life relationship to inform their work to generate buzz...well, if it gets over, there's your ticket to an immediate push in AEW. But that didn't happen. It didn't even come close to happening. 

What about Nixon Newell in October 2025 made her more deserving of being more than enhancement talent than she was in July 2024? If you're going to stand up for yourself, you need more than "I had potential 5 years ago." Any talk of Nox coming into AEW, even in the nerdiest corners of the IWC, dried up probably by September 2024. 

Anyway...I've written way too much about a topic that I actually find incredibly, incredibly unimportant.

 

* I'm not saying that "gimmick," even if it is based on reality, is a good idea or a bad idea or a corny idea or a novel idea. That's for others to judge, to love or to hate. I just bring it up because, if that is the "gimmick," if the fact that they are a real-life couple and also a tag team is going to be their "thing," well, you can see why they might want more than 3 minutes and being used as enhancement talent to get over with what would undeniably be - for better or worse - a big swing of a concept.  

[C.S.]

13 hours ago, El-P said:

Let's not pretend Nixon has to be the smart one

To be fair, when talking about any wrestler, this is graded on a curve, because 99% of them are dumb fucks.

Remember, Kane is a super genius because he reads books.

[El-P]

Well, the more you know about lots of them, the harder it is to care one way or another. 

Meanwhile, AEW has been delivering with fun adds lately. 

 

[sek69]

In addition to this week's walkout, apparently there were issues with last week's match to where Bryan Danielson had to talk with them after the match because it didn't tell the story AEW wanted. The implication is they sandbagged Megan Bayne when they were trying to get her over as the monster crushing everyone in her path. I've seen people online pointing out that there were moments where you could see Bayne looking visibly pissed at something. If that was the case, they should be happy Megan is a pro and didn't beat the shit out of her 

(before anyone interprets that as my being pro-company and anti-labor here, it's unprofessional as all hell to go into a match and deliberately try to make someone look like shit when they have to be on TV every week and you don't even work there)