AEW’s women’s division seems to have finally turned a corner. The arrival of Ruby Soho and Britt baker as champion has added emphasis to the division. Tay Conti and Ann Jay are featured in prominent positions and Jade Cargill remains pushed as a future star.
AEW President Tony Khan appeared on Busted Open Radio and spoke highly of AEW’s women’s division, revealing he has “great matches” and “exciting plans” in the works.
“That was one of the statements I really wanted to make at All Out, we made a ton of statements at All Out. [All Out] was our most successful pay-per-view and really, one of the great pay-per-view success stories of the last 20 years, I really believe the [women’s] division has gotten so strong and it’s gotten to be a real strength of AEW and we have a great Women’s World Champion, Dr. Britt Baker. We have some great contenders coming up and I have some real plans for the women’s division I’m very excited about and really, nobody knows about what this stuff is because I’ve got some really great matches up my sleeve and some exciting plans. But what’s happening right now is tremendous.”
“Britt has been a great champion. But I have to say, in the time she’s been champion, we’ve had the hottest run we’ve ever had for ratings, live attendance, pay per view, it’s been really special and in that time, we’ve also had our biggest free agent coming in Ruby Soho, she’s got a great connection with the crowd.”
Soho’s arrival in AEW has given the women’s division a boost. She faces Baker for the title at the biggest ever edition of Dynamite in New York next week.
“The title match is going to be just a huge part of the AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam next week, Britt Baker versus Ruby Soho, one-on-one for the World Title and they both also are very charismatic and I and the crowd is really into both of them in very different ways. I think Ruby Soho is, right now, one of our hottest babyfaces and Britt Baker is incredibly polarizing, but she gets incredible reactions either way, no matter what people think of her. I think it’ll be really cool segment tonight on TNT, getting to see the World Champion Britt Baker, and the number one contender, Ruby Soho, face off ahead of the match on Wednesday.”
Khan also expressed his excitement for Jade Cargill, who remains undefeated and future champion.
“I’m so excited about what’s happening in the women’s division with Jade Cargill, as a young rookie wrestler in her 20s, who has just been dominant. Clearly, there’s a lot of interest in Jade. We’ve seen a lot of search traffic. You know, anybody can go out and look at the search traffic from Wednesday’s show, [there is] a huge spike for Jade. Her match did really well. She had a great match with Leyla Hirsch and it was the toughest test I think in-ring Jade has had yet. She’s been tremendous. Again in that division, you know, Britt Baker and Ruby Soho are our veterans, but they’re also young women who are going to, I think have a tremendous match on Dynamite next week. So there’s so much exciting stuff happening there.”
h/t Fightful for the transcription
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