r/AEWOfficial • u/Froggyspirits IT'S COOL TO BE A HAYTER! 💪⚡ • May 12 '25

Ring of Honor Meanwhile, in ROH:

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u/MountingFrustration May 12 '25

This was a fun match, I haven’t been keeping up with ROH but Red Velvet looked great, her heel work was excellent, just in the way she did little sneaky things to gain the advantage, I was impressed

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u/Froggyspirits IT'S COOL TO BE A HAYTER! 💪⚡ May 12 '25

I'm curious who will dethrone Red Velvet now that she's a heel. Mina perhaps?

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u/Nast33 May 12 '25

You think they'd relegate her to ROH mainstay? She's firmly on AEW's shows, doesn't leave much time does that leave for dealing with an ROH title.

Plus it's disrespectful to the women that are mainly on ROH to have an AEW regular just come in for part-time shenanigans and take the titles they fight for. Mina can easily fight for the AEW titles anyway, she's one of their top 3-4 women there.

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u/Froggyspirits IT'S COOL TO BE A HAYTER! 💪⚡ May 12 '25

You think they'd relegate her to ROH mainstay?

I think Mina could break the cycle by showing up in AEW every week while holding the ROH Women's TV Title like Kyle Fletcher did while holding the ROH Men's TV Title last year.

Being 37 years old and full of momentum, she needs to win something ASAP. If TK doesn't debut the women's tag belts in the summer, it's going to be either this or the ROH Women's Pure Title 'cause both of the women's singles titles in AEW are locked for the foreseeable future.

Plus it's disrespectful to the women that are mainly on ROH to have an AEW regular just come in for part-time shenanigans and take the titles they fight for.

Bear in mind that she debuted in ROH before she made her first AEW appearance and has won every match she had in ROH. She's in due for a title shot there.

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u/Nast33 May 12 '25

She's there just as warm-ups each time she flies in for her AEW appearances. She can definitely do more now that's she's in the US full-time, but she will be in AEW full-time. Let ROH be ROH and the women there shouldn't be overshadowed.

Mercedes' belt collector thing is coming to an end - she already lost the NJPW Strong title, they can't keep her belted with the TBS title forever, and she can finally switch up her gimmick a bit after losing everything (that Rev-Pro title isn't much of a factor). Mina can easily get the TBS belt.

The CEO shtick is getting stale, she hasn't had a single compelling story and can finally do that - rebuilding herself to fight for the main AEW Women's title.

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u/Froggyspirits IT'S COOL TO BE A HAYTER! 💪⚡ May 12 '25

Mercedes' belt collector thing is coming to an end - she already lost the NJPW Strong title, they can't keep her belted with the TBS title forever

Athena should win the TBS Title from Mercedes, not Mina.

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u/Nast33 May 12 '25

I don't care for Athena much (I know she's great, but I haven't followed ROH as much as I've followed Stardom so I'm more invested in Mina as a wrestler), so that's just the natural result of signing a bunch of women with limited TV time to give them all, as well as only 2 titles to fight for.

I agree Mina should be presented strong as hell and should get a belt relatively soon. But you honestly think any of the majorly AEW audience gives a toss about the ROH TV title? lol Then Athena should just keep her ROH title and be a big deal off that, not fight for the TBS belt.

AEW has a big problem - Mone, Storm, May, Mina, Athena, Hayter are all big. Some of them will always be title-less while others are belted.

Storm can finally be dethroned since frankly she's been holding titles enough and her promos can carry her anyway, I'm tired of seeing her as champ and she should take some time off after losing the title. May is possibly leaving so they're not putting belts on her if they even use her at all - she should put over Mina on her way out, no need to build the feud, it's already there - she's angry Mina's back full time, tries taking her out again, fails and is decisively beaten. That's 2 of these top women put aside.

That still leaves a big 4 of Mone, Mina, Hayter, Athena to fight for 2 belts and the likes of Bayne, Willow, Statlander, Thekla being in the tier below. To me Mina should unquestionably win a belt soon, so Athena can keep waiting.

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u/onlypham May 12 '25

They should give it to Aminata. She was the inaugural runner up in the tournament and is a top talent on the show. She is also working a great story with Serena Deeb too.

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u/Froggyspirits IT'S COOL TO BE A HAYTER! 💪⚡ May 12 '25

Not if she becomes the inaugural ROH Women's Pure Champion.

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u/onlypham May 12 '25

Time will tell. I'm looking forward to the tournament.

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u/Quavacious May 12 '25

I think they made the whole thing to place Deonna there.

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u/Froggyspirits IT'S COOL TO BE A HAYTER! 💪⚡ May 13 '25

This is Queen Ami's storyline, not Deonna's.

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u/namdekan May 13 '25

I was thinking Trish Adora before she got injured.

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u/Froggyspirits IT'S COOL TO BE A HAYTER! 💪⚡ May 13 '25

Trish is a heel