Yes, I enjoy professional wrestling. I’ve enjoyed it since the days of weekend broadcasts on WRGB with heroes like Haystacks Calhoun and Chief Jay Strongbow defeating the likes of Stan Stasiak and Ken Patera.
As the years progressed, I’ve watched professional wrestling in one form or another – whether it was the WWF / WWE “Monday Night Raw” live broadcasts, or late night ECW bloodfests. In 2019, I followed (and continue to watch to this day) All Elite Wrestling (AEW), a wrestling group that features athleticism and international competition.
That didn’t mean that I stayed away from WWE at the time … because if these two wrestlers were on the card, I was watching. Do not harsh me on this.
Yep. The IIconics, the Australian tag team of Peyton Royce and Billie Kay. They were athletic, they were compelling, and (not going to lie) they were smoking hot.
But the WWE treated them like trash. The company broke the team up and put them on different programs. The IIconics reunited during the COVID-19 pandemic, but then lost a match to the Riott Squad that forced the IIconics to break up for good in WWE. Then the duo were released from the company.
And that was around the same time that I stopped watching WWE, and focused exclusively on All Elite Wrestling, hoping the IIconics would move there.
Well, the duo reunited – but they moved to a third company, TNA/Impact. They dropped their WWE stage names of “Peyton Royce” and “Billie Kay”, and changed into “Cassie Lee” and “Jessie McKay” of the IInspiration. Yep, gotta keep those two II’s on the product. 😀
The IInspiration won the TNA/Impact “Knockouts” women’s tag team belts a couple of times, but then got lost once again in the morass of TNA. Trust me, that company didn’t earn the nickname “LOLTNA” for nothing. Plus, TNA was now in a working relationship with WWE, where WWE wrestlers appeared on TNA programs and TNA wrestlers showed up on WWE’s developmental programs.
So that’s the IInspiration back story.
Until I woke up this morning.
See, All Elite Wrestling is currently on an Australian tour, which included a television broadcast of their weekend program AEW Collision in Sydney, as well as a non-televised “house rules” show in Brisbane.
And who just showed up in Brisbane??
These two.
Naw, this can’t be right. I must be dreaming. This is not possible.
A quick check of the Mastodon channel that follows AEW’s posts on that other corporate-owned social media outpost … and …
Holy shrimp on the barbie, Batman … The IInspiration are #AllElite??? They’re actually going to wrestle on All Elite Wrestling? They’re going into the tag team mix??? They could face Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron for the tag belts?? They could battle the Sisters of Sin, the Brawling Birds, maybe even the Timeless Love Bombs??
Sorry, I forgot not everybody understands AEW-speak. Sisters of Sin = Skye Blue and Julia Hart (spooky goth girls), the Brawling Birds = Alex Windsor and Jamie Hayter (British strong style girls), and Timeless Love Bombs = Mina Shirakawa and Toni Storm (I’d explain this one, but then I’d spend the rest of the week sentenced to horny jail).
Well, I can definitely say this. If the IInspiration are now part of the All Elite Wrestling roster …
There’s at least one AEW star against whom they hold a win.
That’s this girl.
The one with the chest tattoos and hair ribbons? That’s a young Kris Statlander. The same Kris Statlander who later became the only woman to claim both the main AEW women’s championship belt, and the secondary TBS championship belt.
Yep, they’ve got a victory over Stat Daddy.
For now.
But yeah, if the IInspiration are now part of All Elite Wrestling …
I’m watching these Bogan Badasses on Wednesday and/or Saturday nights.
For freakin’ sure.
Chuck The Writer 
Not to be forgotten – “Hatpin Mary.”
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plus I love that they are standing up for human rights –
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It doesn’t surprise me they’d show up in AEW after getting screwed out of the TNA tag titles by those Unelegant twits.
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