We had to wait an entire three hours tonight on this combination of “Dynamite” and “Collision” to get one non-squash women’s match. The main event, the lights out Philadelphia street fight pitting Kris Statlander against Hikaru Shida, started at exactly 11 pm EST, kicking off the overrun for the night. While I of course hate the overrun, which was very long tonight, I wasn’t switching off the TV for this match out of sheer principle, so maybe AEW got what they wanted there. More than the overrun, I hated tonight’s complete lack of thought toward the women’s division.

It was nice to see TayJay, Anna Jay and Tay Melo, back in action, and they had the only women’s match in the normal three hours of showtime tonight. Their match was a squash, however, and the only backstage segment the pair had tonight was a beatdown angle by Divine Dominion that lasted maybe three minutes, and that’s being generous. Sure, that furthered the storyline along, but it would have been nice to see the newly returned team wrestle an actual match, though AEW was obviously playing off the five-minute challenge of Divine Dominion’s.

Equally as egregious was the fact we saw the remaining quarterfinals matches of the Men’s Owen Hart Foundation tournament, but zero of the women’s. This would have been a great night to run Alex Windsor’s match against the wild card opponent, as fans are expecting a chaotic show already after the pay-per-view, and a return or whatever AEW has planned would be cool. That makes me nervous now that the wild card isn’t as exciting as what we all may be thinking, but we don’t find that out until next week.

We also didn’t find out anything about Willow Nightingale’s now-vacant TBS Championship, which is just stupid, with no other word for it. They couldn’t take a few minutes, even with just commentary explaining what’s going to happen? I’m assuming it will be another tournament, and maybe Tony Khan is waiting until the Women’s Owen is wrapped, which would also be ridiculous. There’s no way AEW would let a men’s championship sit vacant with no plan announced for it, especially not on a three-hour show.

The lack of care put toward the AEW women’s division is often complained about by fans — by me, especially — and tonight was a prime example of a lot of what’s wrong with it. Stat and Shida had a great street fight, and hopefully a lot of viewers stayed tuned in for it, but waiting until the show was advertised to be over to put it on was just ridiculous.

Written by Daisy Ruth