I don't normally complain about the Tony Khan's booking, I know many others do, I saw let them As a lifelong wrestling fan I am not at all a fan of the WWE's presentation, and love AEW, many people feel the opposite. One of my good friends admits he's a WWE loyalist and feels they can do NOTHING wrong, I thoroughly disagree with his assertion.
As I said I typically don't complain about Tony's booking, but I CANNOT stand his booking of Athena as the Ring of Honor Women's Champion. The "forever" champion is old and the recent comparisons to Bruno Sammartino is infuriating to me!
As of this posting she's been the ROH Women's Champion for 1,260 days, which is about 3 weeks longer than Bruno's second reign as WWWF World Champion and about 1,200 days less than his first reign. She has had 37 successful defenses of her title in that time. In Bruno's first reign I can find a record of 709 and in his second reign 214, and you know they are missing matches.
WWE states that Bruno sold out Madison Square Garden 188 times, while Cage Match only lists 160 matches for Bruno at the Garden. Athena had 3 listed matches at the World's Most Famous arena.
While I'm not a fan of Athena, she does have many people that are fans of her, but it is laughable to think that Athena is anywhere near as great as Bruno Sammartino.
I don't understand why she is still the champion, there have been more than on instance where timing was right for her to lose, most recently at Supercard of Honor 2026. What should have happened at the beginning of Survival of the Fittest is that everyone should have ganged up on Athena and quickly eliminated her first. It gives her an excuse for the loss, and makes her an immediate contender for the new champion.
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