Tony is a fukking idiot when it comes to maximizing talent’s potential. Jade jumps off the screen like few do (Roman & Cody are the other two off top)
Jeezus man
Her first L should’ve been on some epic unforgettable Gohan vs Perfect Cell shyt.
Hell, If you wanna have Statlander bum ass beat her, built it up and do it in front of 80,000 people or on Dynamite 200 not some random ass unannounced match that no one knew was happening
I dunno she was getting stale as hell as champ, and as heel. There was no one that wasn't directly involved in the main title picture left to challenge her. They obviously value Stat as someone to connect to the cac girls and wanted to really give a grand return, so booking wise it kind of makes sense. (She is major mid imo) The only other option would have been is Sasha could have came in, but even still Sasha coming in to fight for the secondary title is not great use of her.
The issue I have is after you lose a title, it's alright to go away for like a month, but it's been that already and no sign of her. Could have easily flipped a face turn by now, or 2 weeks after she lost even. We see AEW running her around Hollywood doing appearances, but she need to be returning this week to set up a match for All In. It's definitely in the timeline of "due rn" or "past due" though.
I think for someone debuting green af and learning on the job, to make a secondary title just to build her up and not have to take L's in the main title picture, and give her an undefeated streak of 60-0 is fair on AEW's part. They could have done MUCH MUCH worse for her. In the E she is still in NXT, and probably a 50/50 record.
It's tricky because she needs to wrestle lots to get better in-ring, but protect her from taking too many L's and tarnishing her. I would have brought her back after 2 weeks, have Sterling be managing a new heel girl, and he can draw some face traction for her. Then she would been running all the house shows AEW has done since then to get her in-ring up.