And then at Double Or Nothing, Thunder Rosa successfully defends her women’s title in a great match over Serena Deeb (this match really should bang if given time), when suddenly music we’ve never heard hits.

Why would she think AEW’s women’s division could be used as leverage right now?

Banks is no less of a wrestling nerd than either Danielson or Punk, and assuredly has a list of people she’d like to work with and matches she wants to do both in and out of WWE.

Her promo battles with Britt Baker or Jade Cargill would be epic (even though Banks isn’t actually that great on the mic, she can hold her own at least).

One women’s match on Dynamite and maybe two on Rampage (and really only when it’s on at a different time than usual, it seems) isn’t enough runway to do things like Punk got to do with MJF, or Danielson got to do with Adam Page and Kenny Omega.

You can’t do all the things Banks is capable of doing when some of it has to be on Elevation or Dark?

Where is the long-term story in the AEW women’s division.

Rosa and Baker had one to tell when Rosa finally took the title off Baker a couple months ago, but basically their booking was “Hey, remember when they had that Lights Out Match?” They didn’t really get to build on it so much as just use it as a platform.

There have been rumors that it’s Turner that keeps Tony Khan from booking the women’s division better and more thoroughly, but Khan has always shot that down.

Aside from her and Cargill, there isn’t really a strong promo on the roster.

Ruby got to do one promo battle with Baker in the build to their match, and that’s been about it.

Only Baker was really allowed to experiment and change entirely on TV, going from a face to the heel we have now.

But the question then is how is AEW ever going to attract a star like Banks when they actually are available.

It’s a bit chicken and egg, in that maybe the AEW women’s division can’t really rise to the level it should without attracting a star like Banks or Bayley or someone else who becomes disillusioned and walks on WWE, but it also can’t attract those stars without an already buoyant division.

Certainly someone like Banks could completely remake the women’s side of AEW, and would demand greater attention for everyone with merely her presence.

But AEW has had three years now to make a women’s division worthy of someone like Banks, and it has yet to do so?