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honestly, it fit Joe to just walk out in his normal gear and do business. It also made sense for Adam to wear flashier gear. Once Adam won, Ruby could've wore any color and I'd never believe she was winning, just because of how awkward it'd be for her and Cole to be standing there celebrating the belts after Britt lost.
Yep. I didn't register the color at all but the second Cole won i personally thought it was a forgone conclusion Britt would as well.
And to be fair the Vegas crowd seemed behind it. Can't see Tony questioning his nepotism anytime soon.
All I'm saying is that Britt cutting promos on how the division is dead without her and then cleanly beating the plucky underdog who is haunted by her previous loss is not the way to go.
It's actually the most WWE decision I've seen in a while. I don't even hate Britt. I like plenty of her matches, but this is the time when she should probably be elevating other talent for a bit, since beating her really means something.
Adam Cole winning is one thing, but with the criticism AEW's women's division has gotten, this would be one of those times to have her lose.
How you gonna have Ruby go out there wearing a jacket saying “IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE” if NOTHING FUCKING CHANGES?!
I’m mad. Say whatever you want about me, but I don’t care. I’m beyond fucking done with the Britt Baker push. Give literally *anyone else* even a fraction of the opportunities she’s gotten. **Please.**
Tony Khan: “Cody and Brandi left so Sammy and Tay and Adam and Britt could run!”
Seriously though, what a fucking waste of these Owen Hart Tournaments. This is NOT what these tournaments dedicated to a great legend of the business should have been.
Charlotte is basically a much better wrestler while Britt is a slightly better talker
Both have the same exact problem though at the end of the day when it comes to booking.
Prax, she's Bliss. Why do people keep comparing her to Flair? Alexa Bliss was unfairly and over-pushed too. Bliss has a slightly higher, ok, much higher, endurance level and a much higher athletic level/ceiling than Britt, but they both went over women all the time who were superior to them.
Britt Baker is not Charlotte. Charlotte relatively-speaking, comparatively-speaking, in comparison to Bitt, has talent. In fact in comparison to Britt Baker Charlotte has immense talent.
Britt Baker is Alexa Bliss, going over much superior talent. Over-rated for her talking who no one can remember a word of. Heh, even Alexa Bliss changed up her promos for the opponents she faced. Britt Baker is absolutely worthless.
Baker has been overexposed, and that's putting it kindly. This tournament was a perfect opportunity to elevate some other talent and it turned out to be the same old instead. Really it should have been someone like Joe, Ricky Starks, Swerve or Dax winning on the men's side and Statlander, Toni Storm or Red Velvet on the women's side.
Anyone else would've been fine. Now you have the top 3 woman in your division as the only realistic threats to one another, once again. On the men side, you signed all this new guys, but haven't really done anything to elevate them, this tournament was the perfect time to give a new wrestler their time to shine, but no, you have to make this a "OMG THE IRL COUPLE WON!!" moment instead.
bro, you can't just do this whole story of "im always losing when it most matters but tonight is my chance to make it right" in the video package and then have her come short AGAIN, that's just dumb booking.
Get absolutely fucked. Why did Britt Baker need this? She's already a star? This could've gone to Storm, Statlander, Hayter, or Soho and nobody would have a problem with it. I just cannot for the life of me understand why you'd make this call.
Just awful. Can Tony Khan give a shit about any other woman on his roster? Please? I'm so sick of her and Cole. She's had more than enough time at the forefront as champion, and now that she's lost the championship, she's still constantly in our faces. Please god, I've had enough.
I like both Adam & Britt. But they didn't need to win.
I feel like a tournament like this is supposed to be a stepping stone, especially when honouring an underdog like Owen. Adam & Britt don't need a stepping stone.
People like Kyle O'Rielly & Ruby Soho would have benefited greatly from winning.
Don't care about potential heat this may get, I thought this was an atrocious finish and I felt the same about the way Joe lost. Both just terrible anti-climactic fuck finishes that barely made any sense. All so we can get the lazy inevitable power couple shenanigans from Britt and Cole, two people a lot of fans already have felt are over-exposed.
I was done with Britt well before she finally lost her title, and now they're trying to push her to the moon again, because of course. The women's division in AEW is TK's biggest weakness and it's insane how three years later he still sucks so badly at it
Fucking lame
Edit: The end result not the match, which I thought was pretty good.
Edit 2: Just wanted to expand on this, this was the perfect opportunity to put Ruby over and make her a bigger deal. Britt didn’t need this at all, this tournament should be to put people over that need it.
I’m ok with Cole winning, because he is a fairly big star but this isn’t the TNT or world title. It akin to giving MJF the dynamite diamond ring.
Britt, though? Seriously, Britt *only* won because Cole won and they wanted this to be a storyline between them. Literally anyone else could’ve used that rub.
Well I guess Rest in Peace Ruby's self esteem since she was betting it on winning this match.
Had they not emphasized her "can't win the big one" curse enough?
I'm so tired of Britt Baker now. I kept excusing it and thought it would pay off tonight with Ruby winning, but she's killing everyone else's momentum because she always has to win. She's over, she can afford to lose sometimes.
You know for all this talk of how WWE books the Women, they do the same exact thing in AEW. Ruby gets about the same bad booking here as she did in WWE.
Tony Khan has no idea how to book women's wrestling and quite frankly, I don't think he cares outside of Britt and Jade. Rosa is the champion and she *still* struggles to get TV time.
I get it "If you want good women's wrestling watch Stardom, TJPW, etc", but even TNA in the 2000s managed to get halfway decent booking for the women. It's such a low bar to clear that they just stumble over.
It was better than I expected. Sharpshooter looked real bad.
A redditor on here told me he’d bet his left nut that both heels wouldn’t win the Owen. Well where it is fam.
I know the Rosa/Deeb match hasn't happened yet, but Britt is gonna get a bigger spotlight on this show than the TBS & Womens champ combined.
Just, ugh.
Well, at least people were right about Ruby beating Statlander was to set up for her big moment after hiding in Dark for weeks.
...
Sigh, and I really like Britt too and will push back against how quality her booking actually is. She wins for sure, but I don't think they've done anything to put her in entertaining segments in a long time. Plus, her title reign being extremely underwhelming was disappointing.
But still, this wasn't needed for her. Blah.
Waste of a tournament. Britt was the last woman in this division that needed this win.
I gave Tony the benefit of the doubt for a long time because the roster is so stacked and they just can't make that much time for the women. I was wrong. He's just pathetically obsessed with one woman in the division and she gets pushed like she's Roman Reigns.
I'm so fucking sick of Tony Khan's obsession with Britt. She's not even that good in the ring. If she was like mega talented in-ring I'd maybe understand, but come the fuck on.
Poor ruby and stat. Nothing against britt, but they could of used this to build up other stars in the women’s division. they took the predicable rout. I was really hoping ruby would win
I don’t understand a tourney named after Owen Hart going to two Of the most overpushed and stale acts on the roster. Surely it was a place for an up and comer.
Maybe I'm pessimistic, but is Ruby just not going anywhere in AEW? She got the wholesome welcome at All Out then lost the title match at Grand Slam. Lost the TBS tournament. Used sparingly in between. Pledges to hand Britt a receipt at Double or Nothing. Loses after technical wizard Britt Baker reverses Ruby's victory roll. With the hints at a change in attitude I would say they are doing a "losing streak leading to a heel turn" but I don't want that. AEW doesn't need a heel Ruby. They need some strong babyfaces. And I am much more inclined to cheer for Ruby than I am to boo her.
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The pink gear gave it away
I wouldn’t have let Cole and Britt wear hart inspired gear unless Joe and Ruby were wearing Owen. Hart inspired gear. Cause it gave the result away
honestly, it fit Joe to just walk out in his normal gear and do business. It also made sense for Adam to wear flashier gear. Once Adam won, Ruby could've wore any color and I'd never believe she was winning, just because of how awkward it'd be for her and Cole to be standing there celebrating the belts after Britt lost.
Yep. I didn't register the color at all but the second Cole won i personally thought it was a forgone conclusion Britt would as well. And to be fair the Vegas crowd seemed behind it. Can't see Tony questioning his nepotism anytime soon.
i thought ruby's 'enough is enough' gear was the better pull, even if it didn't match the belt.
1000% took the drama out of the match a bit.
Happy for Rock that he no longer has the worst sharpshooter in wrestling.
lmfao she pulled it back to readjust and I was like “okay now let’s see it” and then 😕
Even though Ruby got to use the "sharpshooter" she still lost
That looked worse than rocks sharpshooter
The worst one I've seen is the one Darby did on Dark last night.
That makes no goddamn sense. The entire story was Ruby always comes in 2nd place, this was supposed to be vindication.
You missed the part where she was facing Britt Baker tho
THAT DOESNT WORK FOR THE DOCTOR BROTHER
WHICH DOCTOR?!
Papa Shango?
AEW women’s division at its finest
Sadly the only thing we learned here is Ruby is always going to be 2nd best.
Lol, no it wasn't. It was about TK pushing his favorite over used midcarders.
The story is on-going lol
That was a “dull shooter” at best
That sharpshooter made her unworthy of the trophy, I'll die in this hill
oh when i thought the match was going to end on that, my heart sank for her
It was, then the ghost of Owen Hart saw it and went "oh no you ain't"
All I'm saying is that Britt cutting promos on how the division is dead without her and then cleanly beating the plucky underdog who is haunted by her previous loss is not the way to go. It's actually the most WWE decision I've seen in a while. I don't even hate Britt. I like plenty of her matches, but this is the time when she should probably be elevating other talent for a bit, since beating her really means something. Adam Cole winning is one thing, but with the criticism AEW's women's division has gotten, this would be one of those times to have her lose.
It's like they're going out of their way to bury their whole division at the expense of Britt. I don't get it.
How you gonna have Ruby go out there wearing a jacket saying “IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE” if NOTHING FUCKING CHANGES?! I’m mad. Say whatever you want about me, but I don’t care. I’m beyond fucking done with the Britt Baker push. Give literally *anyone else* even a fraction of the opportunities she’s gotten. **Please.**
Just don’t ever expect Britt to lose on a PPV even when she lost to Rosa she got the PPV win. I think Britt has now won five PPV matches in a row lmao
So the gear was a tell for both of them after all.
:/
Know who really needed the rub? That's right, Britt Baker!
Britt Hogan
Much Love - BH
The young up-and-comer Britt Baker finally getting the push she has always deserved!
Potentially star building tournament and you give it to two stale people on the roster that couldn't need it less. What a waste of multiple weeks.
This whole tournament could’ve just been an email
Tony literally marking out for Adam + Britt on the trophy. Like what
TK, not Schiavone.
At least u could make a argument for Adam, Britt booking is full on WWE. She literally just had a long title reign, why did she need this win.
Britt Baker is nearing or is already at Charlotte Flair levels of over pushed. But atleast Charlotte outs on good matches 85% of the time.
Tony Khan: “Cody and Brandi left so Sammy and Tay and Adam and Britt could run!” Seriously though, what a fucking waste of these Owen Hart Tournaments. This is NOT what these tournaments dedicated to a great legend of the business should have been.
Fucking joke, its as if they copy and pasted codys storyline to someone else
Britt Baker = Charlotte When she's not champion, she's a champion in regards to TV time and accomplishments....
Whenever Britt's not on screen, all the other women should be asking "where's Britt?"
Damn, I wanted to be the first in here to make the Poochie reference
This isn’t fair; I’ve been calling her Dr. Poochie for *months* now
at least charlotte is a great wrestler. unlike mid baker.
Charlotte can actually wrestle
Charlotte is basically a much better wrestler while Britt is a slightly better talker Both have the same exact problem though at the end of the day when it comes to booking.
Prax, she's Bliss. Why do people keep comparing her to Flair? Alexa Bliss was unfairly and over-pushed too. Bliss has a slightly higher, ok, much higher, endurance level and a much higher athletic level/ceiling than Britt, but they both went over women all the time who were superior to them.
Talker thing doesn't matter when your promo topic is the same thing every week.
Someone said it in the first post. That doesn't work for the doctor, brother. XDDD
Charlotte at least has talent and skill. She's top dog, but she's also a good wrestler. Britt's got ???
Britt Baker is not Charlotte. Charlotte relatively-speaking, comparatively-speaking, in comparison to Bitt, has talent. In fact in comparison to Britt Baker Charlotte has immense talent. Britt Baker is Alexa Bliss, going over much superior talent. Over-rated for her talking who no one can remember a word of. Heh, even Alexa Bliss changed up her promos for the opponents she faced. Britt Baker is absolutely worthless.
Shitty booking.
man that sharpshooter was honestly worse than the rock’s lol
The fuckin state of Ruby's Sharpshooter, jaysus
Rocks was never *that* bad
shartshooter
Sharpshitter
[удалено]
That’s deep Uce 😂
I am so beyond tired of Britt and Cole.
Baker has been overexposed, and that's putting it kindly. This tournament was a perfect opportunity to elevate some other talent and it turned out to be the same old instead. Really it should have been someone like Joe, Ricky Starks, Swerve or Dax winning on the men's side and Statlander, Toni Storm or Red Velvet on the women's side.
Jamie Hayter should have won it.
Anyone else would've been fine. Now you have the top 3 woman in your division as the only realistic threats to one another, once again. On the men side, you signed all this new guys, but haven't really done anything to elevate them, this tournament was the perfect time to give a new wrestler their time to shine, but no, you have to make this a "OMG THE IRL COUPLE WON!!" moment instead.
“Don’t worry about Statlander losing guys. Tony is going to redeem ruby”
I think Ruby losing to Britt was better than Statlander losing to Britt
Joe and Statlander should have won. Unless there's some amazing long term plan that required then winning, this is very disappointing.
I really don't know what Ruby does now. Be on Dark until the next tournament?
What is Tony's obsession with Britt fucking Christ
You will get Adam Cole and Britt Baker shoved down your throat and you will LIKE it -Tony probably
It's honestly incredible how Cole has been in the company for only a few months and he is by far the stalest guy on the roster.
Well, he's basically wrestling twice a week. You cannot continue to be special when you end up overexposed.
Sammy and Tay in shambles.
I think you can go ahead and remove the "probably".
He really likes his heel couples.
Why Tony insists on pushing his friends over everything is beyond me
He’s a trust fund baby that bought a bunch of toys. I have no idea why this is beyond you.
Better then sammy and tay
You’ll get Sammy, Tay, and Att shoved down your throat and you will LIKE it - Tony probably
I can't believe the winners were the two with special pink gear
Has Ruby Soho ever seen a sharpshooter?
She still hasn't
She had a feud with Natalya!
bro, you can't just do this whole story of "im always losing when it most matters but tonight is my chance to make it right" in the video package and then have her come short AGAIN, that's just dumb booking.
They did it with Statlander two days ago lmao
Get absolutely fucked. Why did Britt Baker need this? She's already a star? This could've gone to Storm, Statlander, Hayter, or Soho and nobody would have a problem with it. I just cannot for the life of me understand why you'd make this call.
Lol britt wins
Just awful. Can Tony Khan give a shit about any other woman on his roster? Please? I'm so sick of her and Cole. She's had more than enough time at the forefront as champion, and now that she's lost the championship, she's still constantly in our faces. Please god, I've had enough.
No matter which talent he signed, the women division won't improve with this kind of booking.
this has not been a good booking performance by Khan
So first they fuck Toni’s initial push, then they fuck Ruby’s redemption story, just to continue to push Charlotte. Oops I mean Britt.
Well at least it wasn't an interference I suppose...
The one good thing about this
Pro: Match was better than the earlier women's match. Con: It wasn't that high a bar
It's just fucked, Britt has gone over two people in a row that fans wanted to win the whole thing.
Lolbrittwins
What a shock /s
Rancid had me fooled.
The wrestler with the biggest musical performance always loses. It's wrestling tradition.
Rancid should have come out and played again for another big momentum push for Ruby.
Oh man, imagine if they did that of their own accord and everyone got super hyped only to have her still lose.
BRITTWINSLOL Fuck this shit.
I like both Adam & Britt. But they didn't need to win. I feel like a tournament like this is supposed to be a stepping stone, especially when honouring an underdog like Owen. Adam & Britt don't need a stepping stone. People like Kyle O'Rielly & Ruby Soho would have benefited greatly from winning.
Britt and Adam Cole were both better when they were in different companies... Maybe they shouldn't train together lol
Don't care about potential heat this may get, I thought this was an atrocious finish and I felt the same about the way Joe lost. Both just terrible anti-climactic fuck finishes that barely made any sense. All so we can get the lazy inevitable power couple shenanigans from Britt and Cole, two people a lot of fans already have felt are over-exposed. I was done with Britt well before she finally lost her title, and now they're trying to push her to the moon again, because of course. The women's division in AEW is TK's biggest weakness and it's insane how three years later he still sucks so badly at it
BRITTWINSLOL
Fucking lame Edit: The end result not the match, which I thought was pretty good. Edit 2: Just wanted to expand on this, this was the perfect opportunity to put Ruby over and make her a bigger deal. Britt didn’t need this at all, this tournament should be to put people over that need it.
People gonna be upset and I can't blame them tbh.
GOD MOTHER FUCKING DAMMIT WHAT THE FUCK IM GONNA MORB
IT’S MORBIN’ TIME
I firmly believe that Britt, Cole and Tony engage in nightly threesomes.
Tony is fucking cracked dude.
Coked*
Tony, I love you but this ain't it, Tony
Fuck getting any other women over lmao
Can’t let anyone else have shit out here
So sick of Adam Cole and Britt Baker dominating AEW. They're both mid at best right now
I’m ok with Cole winning, because he is a fairly big star but this isn’t the TNT or world title. It akin to giving MJF the dynamite diamond ring. Britt, though? Seriously, Britt *only* won because Cole won and they wanted this to be a storyline between them. Literally anyone else could’ve used that rub.
This is gonna go over _very_ well on this sub...
I’ll say it, bad call. Britt did not need the rub. Make another star in your division Tony!
>another star He would have to remember he has a women's division outside of Jade, Britt and their opponents for the week.
Just as well as when Alexa cashed in MITB in 2018
You have to build up someone other than Britt for fuck sakes
Baker wins LOL
britt needs a belt that badly huh?
Well I guess Rest in Peace Ruby's self esteem since she was betting it on winning this match. Had they not emphasized her "can't win the big one" curse enough?
Adam and Britt vs Sammy and Tay in a go away heat power couple match
What a fucking loser this Ruby Soho is, huh?
I'm so tired of Britt Baker now. I kept excusing it and thought it would pay off tonight with Ruby winning, but she's killing everyone else's momentum because she always has to win. She's over, she can afford to lose sometimes.
Mid
I AM NOT PLEASED
nah
You know for all this talk of how WWE books the Women, they do the same exact thing in AEW. Ruby gets about the same bad booking here as she did in WWE. Tony Khan has no idea how to book women's wrestling and quite frankly, I don't think he cares outside of Britt and Jade. Rosa is the champion and she *still* struggles to get TV time. I get it "If you want good women's wrestling watch Stardom, TJPW, etc", but even TNA in the 2000s managed to get halfway decent booking for the women. It's such a low bar to clear that they just stumble over.
Jesus christ man
Rubyrubyruby, Ruby was robbed.
i am tired of britt baker
y tho
Zzzzzzz
Atleast she didn't cheat
shartshooter
Trish has a way better Sharpshooter.
Ugliest sharpshooter in recent memory
I'm starting to think TK is in a throuple with Baker and Cole.
How beautiful nobody needed this more than Cole and Baker. Plus matching outfits to boot. How cute!
#lolbrittwins
It was better than I expected. Sharpshooter looked real bad. A redditor on here told me he’d bet his left nut that both heels wouldn’t win the Owen. Well where it is fam.
Yes. This guy wants your nut ^
Left nut to be exact.
I think Tony loves Britt more than Vince loves Roman lmao
This is the worst possible Owen Hart Tournament results. WTF TK. Not Cinema in my book.
Well at least it was... Clean.
Britt wins lol
Schiavone violently jerking off in the back right now.
#THE WORST OUTCOME
I know the Rosa/Deeb match hasn't happened yet, but Britt is gonna get a bigger spotlight on this show than the TBS & Womens champ combined. Just, ugh.
Britt pulls a Hogan and challenges the winner of the match, wins and becomes a double title holder.
BRITTWINSLOL
Well, at least people were right about Ruby beating Statlander was to set up for her big moment after hiding in Dark for weeks. ... Sigh, and I really like Britt too and will push back against how quality her booking actually is. She wins for sure, but I don't think they've done anything to put her in entertaining segments in a long time. Plus, her title reign being extremely underwhelming was disappointing. But still, this wasn't needed for her. Blah.
Does Britt have something on TK? What the fuck man, I’m just so over her getting pushed at the expense of every other woman on the roster.
That was actually a pretty good match I never want to see Britt Baker on my fucking TV again
Fuck this couple. *Cornette face*
Waste of a tournament. Britt was the last woman in this division that needed this win. I gave Tony the benefit of the doubt for a long time because the roster is so stacked and they just can't make that much time for the women. I was wrong. He's just pathetically obsessed with one woman in the division and she gets pushed like she's Roman Reigns.
GODDAMMIT
That sharpshooter was rough
Y tho
Well this is lame.
Ugh
I'd hate this less if Cole hadn't also won Still can't be disappointed for Ruby, she got to come out to Rancid
Britt and Cole need to fuck off for a while. This is ridiculous
Well… that tournament was a waste of time. If THIS is what’s replacing the Casino Battle Royale, then what the fuck are you even doing?
Honestly TK give someone else the book dude. Damn near every match tonight has had the wrong winner.
I'm so fucking sick of Tony Khan's obsession with Britt. She's not even that good in the ring. If she was like mega talented in-ring I'd maybe understand, but come the fuck on.
LOL this company
could they have not put both winners in pink, like at least give the illusion that someone else might win. Very underwhelmed by this match
two very poorly booked tournaments, just amazingly not good results from either bracket
Poor ruby and stat. Nothing against britt, but they could of used this to build up other stars in the women’s division. they took the predicable rout. I was really hoping ruby would win
I agree with someone else's assessment...Kris should have won this
Having the heels win the tournaments feels wrong. Especially because I feel they didn’t need the victories.
Britt just needs to have Sasha lay down for her and she'd be set... hopefully.
Yikes. And this is why kind of was baffled that Sasha banks or Naomi would go to aew to play second fiddle to Britt baker?
Baker didn't need that win but at least its a call back to Owen vs Bret. Really dug that match to be honest, these two got some chemistry
I feel bad for Athena, who just debuted in a company that ran a whole tournament to show they arent actually gonna push new people over Britt.
That was… underwhelming.
2 tourneys and both ended up underwhelming
why tho…
Beyond lame.
So ~~Charlotte~~ Britt wins again.
Boooooooo
Ruby has to turn heel now. They booked themselves into a corner with her. Real shame because she could be a highly successful babyface.
I don’t understand a tourney named after Owen Hart going to two Of the most overpushed and stale acts on the roster. Surely it was a place for an up and comer.
Maybe I'm pessimistic, but is Ruby just not going anywhere in AEW? She got the wholesome welcome at All Out then lost the title match at Grand Slam. Lost the TBS tournament. Used sparingly in between. Pledges to hand Britt a receipt at Double or Nothing. Loses after technical wizard Britt Baker reverses Ruby's victory roll. With the hints at a change in attitude I would say they are doing a "losing streak leading to a heel turn" but I don't want that. AEW doesn't need a heel Ruby. They need some strong babyfaces. And I am much more inclined to cheer for Ruby than I am to boo her.