Rollie Forbes

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Could you fill me in on what's happening?
In a nutshell, Swole said that AEW's lack of diversity was the reason she left the company. Tony Khan issued an extremely tone deaf tweet in response, which led to a backlash from wrestlers & fans.
All of this happened right after the backlash of Brandi Rhodes (and Jade) calling herself a "Black bytch" on last week's episode of Dynamite.
The whole thing has been a PR mess.
 

Silkk

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His run has been trash so hopefully
Lol I mean its only been 3-4 weeks


But BD is just too good rn and Hangman had his moment….


Then again after seeing how they fukked over Miro when he was the hottest act in the company it wouldn’t surprise me either way.
 

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After having such a great match, I feel this Hangman vs Dragon rematch has no hype at all. Am I wrong brehs? :patrice: they didn't even use the judges gimmick to build some momentum and anticipation.
 

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I'm honestly wondering how this plays out. Either Tony tries to look more open to diversity and gives Jade the belt (which will lead to more of the racism from fans that Jade complained about on Twitter), or Tony will give Ruby the belt (which will continue AEW's anti-Black public image).
Honestly, Tony is in an unenviable position.
:francis:
But in Tony's eyes, there was already enough diversity in AEW. That's what I think bothered him the most from what Swole's comments. If Swole said she wanted more and better Black representation instead of trying to sugar coat shyt with diversity then we wouldn't have gotten that tweet from him.

I always thought Ruby would be the champion seeing as she's a face but plans may have changed now.
 

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To piggyback on everyone's point, TK played himself and took all the shine from a good tourney (admit brehs, it's been a good tourney:ufdup:) for the new belt. He took all the attention away from the women; but all these dudes got small egos, so it is what it is:manny:

Great card tonight:banderas:, got the wings in the air fryer and about to pop this edi, let's get it on tbs:ahh:
 
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