Freddie Prinze Jr. also evaluated the AEW women’s division, specifically talking about two stars that have joined AEW over the last year — Mercedes Mone and Mariah May.

“I don’t want to talk about the Mercedes Mone-Willow championship match because I don’t want to say bad things. I don’t feel like it’s been done well. I feel the debut was for the Boston pop at this point, ’cause that’s where she’s from, and then it’s like, ‘Let’s wait,’ what feels like three months now. There’s just not enough there for me,” he declared.

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While he may not be enthused by the Mercedes Mone-Willow Nightingale storyline, he praised May for her in-ring talent, as well as her ability on the mic. He wondered why WWE didn’t sign the 25-year-old, comparing her going to AEW to Will Ospreay deciding to join AEW instead of WWE.

“Someone who I do think they’re doing well with is Mariah ‘freaking’ May. I’ll say this, if you judge a book by its cover, you go, ‘She can’t talk, she can’t wrestle,'” said Prinze. “All of a sudden you’re watching somebody who’s super good in there at their job. She’s young. To be that good already is kind of a weird thing, and makes me go, ‘How did WWE miss that?’ It’s like the Will Ospreay thing, how do you miss that?”

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He praised May’s role as a sidekick to Toni Storm but believes that the two will eventually split ways and that May could turn babyface and win Storm’s title.