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Here’s something that separates this from all the other “it’s a work” hoopla you hear: This is making people care more about Sasha, Naomi and the Women’s Tag Team Titles. If people were suspicious of this and it was making them more irrelevant (no mention of them on TV, the belts disappear or are put immediately onto another team), then I’d be right there discrediting it too.
MJF floating his interest in WWE doesn’t help AEW. That doesn’t make sense as a work. Cody falling out with them didn’t make them look good. Not a work. Sasha & Naomi? This could very easily be a main event program for them when they crown new champs. Could very easily be a work.
How did they come up with it? Russo’s been in the news and trying to get a job back with them. It could have been the women’s ideas themselves to give them more of an edge. It could be inspired by CM Punk and the pipe-bomb, but neither girl is an excellent promo so they’re using backstage actions. It’s got elements of The Awesome Truth (lol remember that?). And there’s elements of Montreal here. Except instead of Vince doing it himself, it’s Michael Cole speaking for the company. Hell, there were rumors of Ronda walking out as recently as Mania. That could have been the germ of the idea right there.
We’ll see. But this has working potential, which you can’t say for everything else that makes a company look bad that people claim is a work. “It’s a work that WBD didn’t give AEW much attention at the upfronts” is a ridiculous idea. Sasha & Naomi as pariahs in the WWE is not.
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