We now know one half of the first-ever AEW Women's Championship match, and it is not one of the former WWE Superstars who debuted at All Out.
AEW All Out is ongoing as we type this. By the time you read this, the first-ever AEW World Champion may already have been crowned. What's for certain is that the promotion's first-ever Women's Champion will not have been decided. That honor is being reserved for AEW's first-ever TV show which will take place live on October 2, 2019.
For the women's division, All Out is all about deciding who will compete for that title come October 2. The first competitor was decided by the 21-woman Casino Battle Royale during All Out's Buy-In. Five women started in the ring, and those women were joined by extra groups of five every three minutes, then one more entrant after the other 20 women had entered.
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We expected run of the mill entrants up until the joker for the most part, but that was not the case. The third group of entrants was a relatively star-studded one. Bea Priestly, Brandi Rhodes, Awesome Kong, Ivelisse, and, the biggest surprise of all, Tenille Dashwood. For those unfamiliar with Dashwood under this name, she was formerly known as Emma while with WWE.
Dashwood wasn't the only former WWE Superstar to make her AEW debut during the Casino Battle Royale. Veteran wrestler and two-time WWE Women's Champion Jazz also competed in the match, entering with the fourth batch of stars. Neither woman stuck around for long as they were both thrown over the top rope and eliminated. Another woman who has competed for WWE entered at number 21. Mercedes Martinez, who competed in the last Mae Young Classic for WWE.
Unfortunately, none of the three women mentioned above managed to book their place in the title match on October 2. That honor was reserved for a woman who entered during the first batch of wrestlers, Nyla Rose. It was a dominant performance from Rose, and she will take on the winner of Riho versus Hikaru Shida which takes place later tonight. Right now, the smart money would be on Rose to be AEW's first-ever Women's Champion.