Unfortunately an illness prevented this bout from taking place last week, and having the Semi-Finals of the Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament already set in stone, but rather than having a sick Dr. Britt Baker step into the fight for a less than ideal match-up, now the AEW faithful will get a fight with two women ready for the fight.
That didn’t stop Ruby Soho from running off at the mouth about the Good Doctor, about their history dating back to 2021’s DYNAMITE: GRAND SLAM, and their bout in the finals of last year’s Owen Hart Foundation Tournament. Ultimately, as much as this contest is about fighting to advance to the Semi-Finals of this tournament, it’s also about where Baker and Soho have gone over the course of this last year. It’s about Soho turning her back on the fans of All Elite Wrestling, the woman of the AEW locker room who had supported her and called her friend, and choosing to embrace The Outcasts of Toni Storm and Saraya instead.
It’s about Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D actually trying to live up to what it means to be The Pillar, actually accepting what her self-proclaimed position as face of Women’s Division means, and doing it not because it sounds good, but because she actually believes in taking on that responsibility. All it took was the Women’s Division worth being questioned by The Outcasts, it being threatened by Soho, Storm, and Saraya, for the Good Doctor to step into this role for reason’s beyond ego fulfillment.
This is about the tournament, and about the future of the Women’s Division; who will advance in the field, and who will advance in this back-and-forth struggle over the future of AEW’s women’s division? If there was ever a time for Britt to truly become The Pillar, this is it!