#BlackWrestlingDraws served as a fitting punctuation to an entertaining Three Strikes match between promising black women’s wrestler Big Swole and Diamante.
With black wrestlers mostly relegated to lower profile appearances on AEW Dark and AEW Dark Elevation, supporters of black wrestling recently took to Twitter to promote the #BlackWrestlingDraws hashtag. The aforementioned study of AEW’s audience has found that its white-skewing viewership is beginning to reflect its white-skewing booking.
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Stars like Adam Cole, CM Punk and Bryan Danielson represent the prototypical “Internet Wrestling Darlings” once featured in Ring of Honor during previous eras of pro wrestling.
In an article titled “AEW has diversity but lacks when it comes to overall inclusion,” Raphael Garcia of Daily DDT wrote “Dark and Dark Elevation features a lot of talent that fall within diverse spaces, but their presence is not truly felt in impactful ways on Dynamite.”ĪEW has found an effective formula to gain an impassioned, loyal following among male, mostly white hardcore wrestling fans. “How u gonna preach diversity yet you won’t hire black wrestlers who are equally talented if not more ,” said former GCW world champion AJ Gray in a tweet last May. In addition to complaints from the emerging black wrestling media, black wrestlers themselves have also spoken out about AEW’s lack of diversity among prime spots on the card. Dynamite garnered 1,273,000 for this show, its second-biggest number of the year.
The high-profile television special featured 12 performers across five matches-all of whom were white. This is particularly the case when it comes to black talent, which is nowhere to be found when it comes to top stars consistently featured on AEW television.ĪEW Grand Slam this past Wednesday offered a very fitting depiction of AEW’s struggles with diversity. Though AEW has found success as a more than worthwhile alternative to WWE, it has struggled in promoting diversity the way it promised it would when it opened its doors in 2019. MORE FROM FORBES WWE WrestleMania 37 Was The Blackest WrestleMania Ever By Black Excellence is even apparent in WWE’s future as NXT 2.0 boasts top prospects Odyssey Jones, Hit Row and NXT Breakout tournament winner Carmelo Hayes. WrestleMania 37 also featured the first black women to main event WrestleMania in Bianca Belair and Sasha Banks. The New Day member went on to successfully cash in on Bobby Lashley, who became just the third black WWE champion on the Mabroadcast of Raw. Big E became the first black Money in the Bank winner this year.
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Wrestlers under the 30-day non-competes will become free agents after Friday, July 25, while wrestlers under the 90-day non-compete clauses will be free agents after Thursday, September 23.WWE has historically faced its own problems with diversity, however recent years have been historically good for black wrestlers and people of color. Dain revealed that he is under a 90-day non-compete as well. Regarding non-compete clauses, word is that Nese has a 90-day non-compete, while Grey has a 30-day non-compete. As we’ve noted, Andrew Zarian of the Mat Men podcast reported that more cuts were to be made back on June 2 when Braun Strowman, Aleister Black, Buddy Murphy, Lana, Santana Garrett, and Ruby Riott were released. The cuts were apparently in the works for some time. Today’s releases were a part of ongoing budget cuts, like other recent departures, according to Jon Alba. It was also noted that several of the WWE 205 Live Superstars released today were on higher contracts than WWE had been giving out for work on that brand as of late. As of this afternoon, there were apparently more names set to be released that had not been confirmed, but there were also several names that ended up being released, who weren’t leaked via sources, and at times this year there have been wrestlers who were “saved” from the chopping block at the last minute. Khan let a meeting earlier this afternoon and made decisions on multiple cuts, according to Fightful Select. As noted, WWE released the following 13 Superstars this afternoon – Killian Dain, The Bollywood Boyz (Sunil Singh, Samir Singh), Marina Shafir, Arturo Ruas, Curt Stallion, Fandango, Tyler Breeze, Ever-Rise (Chase Parker, Matt Martel), Tony Nese, Ariya Daivari, August Grey. WWE President & Chief Revenue Officer Nick Khan reportedly led a meeting at WWE HQ today where decisions were made on the talent releases that have been confirmed.
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