AEW and NXT Wednesday Night War: 3 winners of night #18

Nyla Rose

After beating Riho for the AEW Women’s Championship last week, new champ Nyla Rose joined Tony Schiavone on the ramp for this week to discuss her monumental victory.

The promo started off a little shaky — Rose’s line about the fans sounding like bees buzzing when they booed her sounded like something a WWE main roster writer would script for Baron Corbin — but she quickly got on track when she griped about not being the featured attraction of the women’s division, as formulaic as the complaints were.

But the promo went from acceptable to great when she said that waiting for her moment “made [her] hungry” and that she “breaks b****es” when that happens before ending her rant by bragging that she “broke” her predecessor and “cut her strings”.

And when Schiavone — who is great in this interviewer role, unsurprisingly — tried to put Riho’s courage over, Rose promptly shut that down; she then proclaimed that she represented “unbridled power”  and that she was going to be a one-time champ since no one could beat her, which of course brought out Kris Statlander — who beat Shanna earlier in the night — and Big Swole to symbolically and physically rebut.

Going forward, Rose will still have to show that she can have good matches with women not named Riho, but this was a great start to what should be a lengthy reign.