WWE Accuses AEW of Treating Their Women Superstars Poorly

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WWE has criticized AEw's product for its "blood & guts" approach, calling it "gory self-mutilation" and what not.

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And the Wednesday Night Wars were basically them opening the war chest to take on AEW; and fail to take them out!

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[{"selector":"#anim-bdaf521d-b865-4fbc-9ecd-81c0b2641fcb","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":0,"duration":3000,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.4, 0.4, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-a0f3236f-6b90-4a9f-829d-8c232bfffb1a","keyframes":{"opacity":[0,1]},"delay":600,"duration":800,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] [{"selector":"#anim-37d1e103-5ac5-4908-b896-10f465542714","keyframes":{"transform":["translate3d(-122.88732%, 0px, 0)","translate3d(0px, 0px, 0)"]},"delay":600,"duration":800,"easing":"cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.6, 0.0, 1)","fill":"both"}] It's no secret that AEW's Women's Division is a bit of an afterthought, with both champions playing second fiddle to the "top guys". And this drawn a reaction from WWE's biggest superstar: Big Time Becks. Arrow

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This critique isn't unfounded as former AEW women's star Big Swole has accused the company of not being "diverse enough" in the past.

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And while both the current TBS & AEW Women's Champions are POCs, the air-time they get is frankly atrocious; let alone the women's division.

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