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Steiner posted...

i think this is the first time I saw... either of these teams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01T3SG4nVAM

This match was extremely fun. Thank you for sharing it with me!

re: Brandi

I think she cares about women to an extent. She's making this women's tag team tournament, which is honestly just a good idea all around to help build the women currently in the division and ones they are looking at. It's good that these matches that may or may not end up bad aren't on live TV, but they're gaining traction online. The women's division was starting to build up before the pandemic and then the injuries after the pandemic made it harder for them. They're trying their best while being handicapped while still trying to save spots for the other women when they can return.

The problem is a rather vague and somewhat predatory-looking AEW Heels thing, which seemed like a fun idea when they did it until they decided to monetize it in a way that's expensive and also half-assed. Like you couldn't spend more time workshopping this and offering more stuff? Give a monthly subscription to it and a yearly one? It was just really, really poorly done and when Brandi was questioned on it, she had very poor answers and seemed to contradict things that are actually in the description for this AEW Heels thing she's trying to sell.

This is beyond the fact that I don't know that Brandi really understands wrestling, or who are good wrestlers. The AEW Women's Division has seemed a lot... I dunno, barren in terms of women with good backgrounds right now. I'm hoping for some surprises in the women's tag tournament, but they could have done a lot better. People like Penelope Ford have come a LOOOOOONG way from their debut, but some more ring generals in there would really help. I'm sure we could collectively name a lot of women who we would say would be a good fit that can help teach the other women.

And it's just stuff like the Nightmare Collective which was just the absolute drizzling shits. Just awful. When she buries fellow wrestlers. Collectively, people agree that most of Brandi's ideas suck. And now she's doing heel stuff on top of that? After she's doing a women's empowering community thing and then STILL maintaining a heel persona on Twitter even as she discusses it?

Brandi seems nice enough, and I honestly do feel bad each time I criticize her like this because I think she's just trying but so outrageously misguided most of the time. It's crazy she hasn't really picked up on anything with how long she's been in wrestling. Even from an administrative standpoint. I feel like her, more than anybody else, should just be asking the most questions of people or trying to educate herself more. She's in such a weird place to me.

Edit:

Eddv posted...

One thing that indicates theyre trying to try out new people is that both Nyla and Ford are both out, that's two of your four heavy hitters.

Or one thing that indicates they want to focus on more Brandi... :( Like honestly, if this leads to her and Allie winning the tournament it's the absolute worst and I'm convinced she's out to lunch on this whole thing.

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