{"id":78916,"date":"2020-11-14T15:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=78916"},"modified":"2020-11-14T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T20:33:19","slug":"hope-aew-womens-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/11\/14\/hope-aew-womens-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Hope For The AEW Women&#8217;s Division?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All Elite Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>has been running\u00a0<em>AEW Dynamite\u00a0<\/em>for over a year now.\u00a0 In that time nothing has been more maligned and mishandled than the women&#8217;s division.\u00a0 Every week, fans find fault with AEW&#8217;s lacklustre presentation of their women&#8217;s division and while the division has been ravaged by injuries, and COVID-19 we have to wonder is their hope for this division?\u00a0 Contrary to what may be the popular opinion we do think the future is bright for the AEW women&#8217;s division.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s explain why.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>An Eye On The Future<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hikaru Shida vs Leyla Hirsch | AEW Dark 10\/27\/20\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/br1jT1qXeRs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While AEW Dynamite is often lacking in women&#8217;s matches the same can&#8217;t be said of AEW Dark.\u00a0 The next edition of AEW is scheduled to feature five women&#8217;s matches featuring names like\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/10\/27\/indie-watch-leyla-hirsch-too-legit-to-quit-videos\/\" target=\"_self\">Leyla Hirsch<\/a>, Lindsay Snow, KiLynn King, Alex Gracia<\/strong>, and a host of regulars who are still improving.\u00a0 In recent weeks there&#8217;s been at least two women&#8217;s matches.\u00a0 While it may not seem like it on Dynamite AEW has had their eyes to the future with the women on AEW Dark as they have brought in a number of girls from the indies to get experience working for TV.\u00a0 When the Win-Loss records reset in 2020 expect to see names like King and Hirch make a serious move to Dark.\u00a0 Dark has also been a proving ground for names like\u00a0<strong>Red Velvett\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Rache Chanel\u00a0<\/strong>who have promise and will only get better from working on Dynamite with talented women.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Third Hour Of TV<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>AEW has a third hour of television coming at some point.\u00a0 Depending on how important that hour is we could see it become a show where midcard talents and other underused roster members get time to wrestle and tell stories.\u00a0 While Dynamite is in a ratings war with <em>NXT<\/em> and has to be smart about maximising ratings this third hour will likely allow the company more freedom to book people that aren&#8217;t stars.\u00a0 This would allow them to give some women, who maybe aren&#8217;t ready for Dynamite, some experience in lieu of a live events circuit.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A Solid Core<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76489\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/Serena-Deeb.jpg\" alt=\"Serena Deeb\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/Serena-Deeb.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/09\/Serena-Deeb-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AEW has a very strong core to their women&#8217;s roster whether we can see it or not.\u00a0<strong> Serena Deeb<\/strong> is a pro&#8217;s pro who can act as an in-ring trainer and a title contender.\u00a0 Deeb also has the ability to carry anyone to a good match.\u00a0 AEW also has <strong>Britt Baker\u00a0<\/strong>who has been one of the most consistently entertaining parts of AEW for most of 2020, once she can get fully fit and back in the ring Baker will be unstoppable.\u00a0 Despite some fans wrongfully turning on her\u00a0<strong>Riho\u00a0<\/strong>is still an AEW competitor and will no doubt reclaim her spot at the top of the division when she can get back to the U.S.\u00a0 While her status with the company is in question\u00a0<strong>Thunder Rosa\u00a0<\/strong>is a charismatic and talented individual that is bound to win the AEW Women&#8217;s Championship.\u00a0 This core when joined with\u00a0<strong>Kris Statlander<\/strong>, Hirsch, King, and any other women that AEW may sign has all the makings of a really strong women&#8217;s division.<\/p>\n<p>So, these are the reasons why we believe there is still hope for the women of AEW.\u00a0 Are we being too optimistic, or are we right to have hope?<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can catch AEW Dynamite Wednesday nights at 8 PM ET on TNT and AEW DARK Tuesday nights at 7 PM ET on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCFN4JkGP_bVhAdBsoV9xftA\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to talk wrestling, pro football, or any number of sports? Head on over to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/boards\/index.php\" target=\"_self\">LWOS Boards<\/a>\u00a0to engage in conversation with fellow fans!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Elite Wrestling\u00a0has been running\u00a0AEW Dynamite\u00a0for over a year now.\u00a0 In that time nothing has been more maligned and mishandled than the women&#8217;s division.\u00a0 Every week, fans find fault with AEW&#8217;s lacklustre presentation of their women&#8217;s division and while the division has been ravaged by injuries, and COVID-19 we have to wonder is their hope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":78944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4677,2,6,324,2192,317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew","category-featured","category-north-america","category-other","category-wrestling","category-women"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}