Big Bad Blog Video Theater-Hikaru Shida vs Nyla Rose

Here's the match video of Nyla Rose defending her AEW Women's Championship against Hikaru Shida. This was a No DQ No Countout match but the pinfall had to be in the ring. AEW makes the same mistake with Nyla that the WWE makes with Nia Jax. Size is not enough to compensate for the lack of ring skills. The opponent needs to have superior ring skills. Hikaru isn't as good as Asuka. But she is good. And AEW has deliberately undersold her and oversold Nyla as a monster. So that's the setup and I thought they delivered a really good match. The pattern was Nyla and her power moves and Hikaru refusing to stay down and eventually winning with a Falcon Arrow from the top rope and a Shining Wizard for the win. One of the big spots had Nyla dumping Hikaru onto a poker table. Other than a couple of broadcast truck glitches, the broadcast was OK. The commentary put over Hikaru as double tough which they haven't done in the past. Hikaru wore new gear based on the character Tifa in the Final Fantasy VII video game. I don't know anything about video games so I had to look that up. And BTW, Hikaru makes her own costumes. She recently Tweeted a video of herself at the sewing machine. Congratulations to Hikaru Shida for winning the AEW Women's Championship. I expect Nyla will get a rematch in an episode of Dynamite. Britt Baker will be out for a couple of months with a knee injury meaning she doesn't need surgery. Enjoy the video!