Athena
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Sep 17, 2026
Andy H. MurrayHOST
Yeah.
Andy H. MurrayHOST
The, the Athena match as well from-
Michael HamflettHOST
Yeah
Andy H. MurrayHOST
...
Andy H. MurrayHOST
I think she's a prodigy.
Andy H. MurrayHOST
I think she's, um, going to be the future of this division, uh, the AEW Women's Division and the Ring of Honor Women's Division.
Andy H. MurrayHOST
I think she should dethrone Athena.
Michael HamflettHOST
Mm.
Kaden LeePANELIST
There we go.
Joe HulbertHOST
My goat Ember Moon is here.
Joe HulbertHOST
Athena.
Kaden LeePANELIST
Yep.
DonnyHOST
The contacts too are really cool, the red contacts.
DonnyHOST
[sniffs] Yeah.
Joe HulbertHOST
Is it cool with Ember Moon, or is it a cool look? It just no one ever knew what an Ember Moon was really.
DonnyHOST
Yeah.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
Yeah, well, because immediately when somebody says, if you think of any Texas wrestlers, 90% of people will be like, yeah, Vaughn Eriks.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
Like, Can we take a moment to think about the other redonkulously famous wrestlers that have come out of Texas? Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Athena now, right? There's so many absurdly good talents that it's okay to not think of Devon Eriks when you think of Texas wrestling.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
It's okay.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
Dustin Rhodes, right? I mean, like, Goldust is down here.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
And MPX is kind of like a big part of that.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
I know there have been several... wrestlers that like finished up at, at PCW and, and closed that out, closed out the sportatorium that have said that like MPX has kind of been their new home.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
I mean, even Athena Palmer, um, angel blue, angel Armstrong.
Matt AndrewsGUEST
Like they've said that like MPX is a place that they would consider home because it's, it's the most consistent thing going right now.
Matt TurnerHOST
Talk about Janai Kai versus Billie Starks.
Matt TurnerHOST
This was built up a few weeks ago when Janai Kai had a proving ground match against Athena, which again, if Janai Kai either beats Athena or survives the 10 minutes, she gets a title shot.
Matt TurnerHOST
Janai Kai was waylaying onto Athena until Billy Starks came in, made some interference.
Matt TurnerHOST
That helped Athena get the win.
Matt TurnerHOST
That's how this match was set up.
Matt TurnerHOST
We start out with some great wrestling here, some arm drag exchanges.
AsaHOST
Don't know why they made it a proving ground match.
AsaHOST
Athena, the champion, took on Isla Dawn.
AsaHOST
Athena got the win after hitting the O-Face.
AsaHOST
And this was a squash match.
AsaHOST
Yeah.
SwitchHOST
Yeah.
SwitchHOST
This was just to get Athena on the show in front of her hometown.
SwitchHOST
That's all it was.
EJ ReidHOST
And now that I think about it, because I was thinking about like, how many black NXT women champion have there been? It hadn't been many because did, Bianca didn't win it.
EJ ReidHOST
Yeah, I think Athena won it.
EJ ReidHOST
Bianca didn't win it.
EJ ReidHOST
I don't want to say she didn't win it before she went up to the main roster.
P CuraHOST
Just, just take mid-card for what it really is.
The FungHOST
But, but, but my, my, my complaint would be when you can have someone like Ember Moon or Athena in that same spot, I, I think Ember Moon or Athena is better than Maya Wong, with more experience and- ... wrestles better and all, and looks better, my opinion
P CuraHOST
I, I totally agree with you.
P CuraHOST
However, this is AEW, okay? Like, we're, we're not gonna always hit the mark.
Nikki StormGUEST
fun.
Nikki StormGUEST
I would love to wrestle Athena again.
Nikki StormGUEST
You know, we made such magic in NXT.
Nikki StormGUEST
That would be a great match.
SolomonsterHOST
And think about how young she would've been then in NXT when her and Bayley went out there and had that match that they had and the fact that she's still only 34, right? I mean, that, that's pretty impressive when you consider what she's done and what she could yet do.
SolomonsterHOST
I didn't even mention the matches that she's had with Athena who has now publicly expressed her desire to become a full-time roster member on the AEW roster and she wants to go after all the championships.
SolomonsterHOST
She talked to the Dallas Morning News about her desire to be on the roster full time and she talked about her Women's Championship run in Ring of Honor that has now lasted over 1,360 days.
SolomonsterHOST
She said, "It's finally time for me to make that forever as well.
Kelly WellsHOST
This match goes 12-23-1. champs retain uh with the finisher um whatever their finisher is called vick certainly doesn't know it so he can't help me and uh yeah msk are still your champs but the big story here ridge holland and um pete dunn uh the the co-leaders of the faction that never got a name kicked the other guys out of the faction uh they were brought in kind of nondescript and they were kicked out nondescript uh much like winning and losing their tag championships on tv uh well winning on tv and losing by having to give them up um birch and lorcan just never quite figure in but uh but this was 12 23 the third longest match after the uh first two matches and uh on a night that had 53 56 of in-ring action on the main event um
Tom StoupHOST
Yeah, speaking of Vic, in that first match, Ember Moon had a really cool move toward the end, and I'm like, ooh, I wonder what Vic's going to call that, and he just said, up and down! Oh, what innovative offense from Ember Moon! Okay, thanks, Vic.
Tom StoupHOST
If
Kelly WellsHOST
up and down and flying through the air weren't in his vernacular, he would have nothing to say.
9 MINS LATER
Kelly WellsHOST
yeah it was really really distracting um and genuinely detracted from the match for me uh drove me crazy but what are you gonna do okay let's um Let's not go to another email quite yet because we're not at that point.
Kelly WellsHOST
Let's go to the opener.
Kelly WellsHOST
Kaylee Ray versus Ember Moon.
Kelly WellsHOST
Did you know, Tom, that we had just as many wrestling minutes from the women as we did the men this week? It was like.
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