Whereas AEW hasn’t reached CMLL’s degree with regards to the variety of championships at play within the promotion, you in all probability gained’t discover too many individuals who’d criticize Tony Khan’s firm for having too few titles.
Nonetheless, Khan instructed the media who assembled for the post-Double or Nothing media scrum at the moment (Could 27) that he’s open to including extra AEW ladies’s belts to the combination. The proprietor of AEW and Ring of Honor additionally introduced up one other he’s occupied with a championship for tag groups that include female and male wrestlers.
To his credit score, the explanation TK provides for doubtlessly prioritizing combined tag titles is as a result of he’s centered on constructing out the depth of AEW’s ladies’s division:
“Yeah, completely. We’ve talked about that [Women’s Tag or Trios divisions], have talked about loads of potential additions when it comes to championships. I feel proper now we’ve some actually sturdy rivalries rising amongst the World Championship, the TBS Championship, and likewise with ROH — you possibly can’t deny that ROH has nice champions now,” Khan stated.
“There’s loads of nice issues taking place in AEW and ROH within the males’s and the ladies’s divisions. I feel it’s undoubtedly one thing that may very well be excellent prospects down the road. However we’re additionally nonetheless actually attempting to construct the depth again to I feel the strongest it’s ever been. There was some extent, All Out ’21, the place I used to be teaching the On line casino Battle Royale and we had 21 ladies in that battle royal in addition to an important Britt Baker vs. Kris Statlander championship match. And I feel that was, prime to backside, up till now, the deepest the division’s ever been. And loads of the nice folks from that match have been out or injured for numerous causes and never with us.
“I feel we’re going to maintain getting increasingly more depth again and the division’s going to maintain getting stronger and stronger. I feel these are each very fascinating championships. I additionally assume one thing completely different we might do right here that I’ve had curiosity in could be Combined Tag Staff Championships. I feel we’ve lots of people which are aligned. I feel lots of people could be occupied with that too. That’s completely different than what different main promotions have, and I feel that might set AEW aside. So I’m additionally occupied with Combined Tag Staff Championships.”
As we’ve seen repeatedly all through the 5 yr historical past of WWE’s present Girls’s Tag championship, the titles can shortly grow to be a joke if the corporate isn’t dedicated to selling the division they’re the prize for. I assume I’m not alone in saying I’d choose AEW proceed the great work they’ve been doing presenting a number of storylines for his or her ladies’s roster with the 2 (or three if we rely ROH) belts they have already got for the women.
Close to a combined tag staff championship… combined tag matches could be loads of enjoyable! However so long as firms are unable or unwilling to current greater than the occasional intergender spot on their reveals, they’re at all times going to lean towards comedy. And that’ll make it even tougher to get anybody to take a tertiary title severely.
However these are simply my two cents. Tell us what you concentrate on Khan’s feedback about including championships at AEW down under.
