I truly cannot think of one thing I would rather see less in and around the AEW women’s division than this continued “will she/won’t she join the Death Riders” thing with Kris Statlander. I was only slightly interested about two weeks ago when Jon Moxley got the $100,000 four-way match winnings for her from the Young Bucks. But AEW didn’t exactly rush to capitalize on anything after that, and I’m just not really interested once again. If they don’t care enough to tell the story, why should I care enough to be invested in it? It all honestly feels like it’s just to put some extra heel heat on Wheeler Yuta, and by the sound of the crowd tonight (the sing-song “Ohhh, f*** Wheeler Yuta!” was great), he doesn’t need it.

Especially when Stat has found a fantastic comedy-ish tag team with Harley Cameron, and if Tony Khan is serious about bringing in women’s tag team championships, these two pairing up certainly make sense. Their backstage angles together have been simple, but cute, and I’m interested to see where “Wrathlander,” or whatever they’re going to be called, is going next.

There was also no Willow Nightingale tonight after she ran in last week after Cameron and Statlander’s match to help them avoid any further conflict with Megan Bayne and Penelope Ford. I’m still interested in her relationship, or lack thereof right now, with former friend Statlander. I think this boils down to Stat just having much more interesting storylines than aligning herself with the Death Riders right now. I’m assuming the “friend” Stat and Yuta were referring to tonight was Moxley, so maybe this will be followed up on during “AEW Collision” on Saturday. I just hope that Cameron can be the angel on Statlander’s shoulder and lead her back into the light. While the Death Riders don’t need anyone new added to that faction, the AEW women’s division does need tag teams to finally get those belts on the show.

Written by Daisy Ruth.