Big Bad Blog Video Theater-Hikaru Shida vs Big Swole

Here's the match video of Hikaru Shida vs Big Swole from this week's episode of AEW Dark. This was on Youtube yesterday. I thought it wasn't supposed to air until Tuesday. You may recall seeing Big Swole in last year's Mae Young Classic as Ariel Monroe. She has completely changed her look and taken the name Big Swole which is a bodybuilding term. I don't have a problem with her taking a ring name. But I don't think most folks are familiar with this term. She is married to WWE cruiserweight Cedric Alexander. She's obviously a good athlete. As a wrestler, she's OK but she lacks quickness. And this is particularly noticeable against someone as quick as Hikaru. Sometimes Big Swole looks like she's in quicksand. It's a decent match. Hikaru has to make adjustments because of Big Swole's lack of quickness. Typical of joshi wrestlers, Hikaru likes her matches to be competitive. But as with her match last week, I think a squash would have been more appropriate because they need to build Hikaru up. Hikaru wins with a knee strike. I guess AEW liked Big Swole as they signed her to a contract right after this match. Hikaru is not on this weekend's AEW PPV. She is in Japan appearing on a show for the theater company Makai. She will perform in one show a month for them. They have a Youtube channel if you want to check them out. Enjoy the video though I should warn you that the guy who posted it has added background music.