AEW Collision 7/1/23: 3 Things We Hated And 3 Things We Loved

We hate to do this again, but we don’t really have a choice. Similar to the Cassidy/Lee/Vikingo vs. Jericho Appreciation Society match from “Dynamite” earlier in the week, there was something off about Kris Statlander vs. Lady Frost — we know they’ve worked together before on an AEW house show, but there was a lot of awkwardness in this one, and several moves and sequences clearly weren’t synching up properly. Statlander’s (suddenly inappropriately named) Friday Night Fever, for instance, which she used to win the match, pretty obviously didn’t land they way it should have. As we said on Wednesday, we don’t like complaining about botches, but sometimes it’s really hard to ignore them.

Beyond that though, we have to ask, once again, why there are no stories happening in the women’s division, and we will keep asking that until we actually get some. Statlander dethroned Jade Cargill at Double or Nothing in May. That was over a month ago. She has no feud, she has no angle. She just wrestles sometimes. Cargill and her undefeated streak were a walking, talking storyline in and of themselves, and even she got put in actual feuds occasionally (though not often). Statlander’s character right now is … the champion? Is that it? (Honestly, we miss the alien.) And as for Frost, she’s good in the ring and we’re glad she has a job, but this was her second match on AEW TV, and it was a title shot. Why? Is there a reason, or does Tony Khan just know that people will throw a fit if an episode has no women’s match at all, so he just throws a couple of them out there for a few minutes every week? Because we’re leaning toward the latter.

Also, weren’t we promised Thunder Rosa on this show at some point? Is that happening any time soon?

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