Nyla Rose

[8.0] "I miss Nyla. Only a 5.8/10 on singles matches, but she's charismatic as hell and a wonderful powerhouse. I hope there's a spot for her once we turn the corner on certain issues. Great start to the women's world championship scene in AEW, perfect foil for Riho."

[10.0] "Such an incredibly important professional wrestler to me, and a damn good one at the same time. Nyla is charismatic, an incredible trash talker, and a fantastic brawler, though she has been steadily slowing down in the ring. She was a key part of the early rocky waters of the AEW Womens division, and a rock that held that division in place. On top of all that, she is the first transgender wrestler I saw on TV, and also one of the first to hold the AEW Womens World Championship. I adore Nyla, her matches are always fun and worth seeking out, as she doesn't get much TV time these days - so a focus to the indies has been her approach to wrestling."

[7.0] "A solid, reliable hoss that has a place in any women's division with a very good match once in a while but stood out more in the first few years of AEW when the roster wasn't insanely stacked. That said, one of the most naturally funny promos and trash talkers in wrestling today. Whenever Nyla retires she could have a long run as a great manager or onscreen act in some capacity."

[5.0] "She's OK. Nothing too special about her and it was pretty hard to get invested into her, but she was a solid performer. She had potential but never really got there which is quite unfortunate."

[5.0] "The first ever trans women to become a World Champion, it was quite great. Sadly, she became more of a backstage helper than a wrestler, I kinda enjoyed her. Don't know why she did that choice, but okay, I support her."

[6.0] "The unfortunate fact is that Nyla isn't as entertaining as Harley Cameron, as strong as Megan Bayne, or as Dynamic as Willow Nightingale. Like many of the performers in the first few years of AEW, I'm afraid the promotion has passed her by."

[7.0] "Nyla was a very important part of the AEW women's division in the early days. It's a shame she was never allowed to be more like herself on social media. She's quite hilarious and if given the green light, may have been able to really get over as a babyface. I think Nyla plays to her strengths very well but unfortunately never quite reached the next level."

[7.0] "Good hand, plays a monster relatively well, has a decent moveset, can actually work on mic, and has a good presence to her. Not a technician by any means or one of the best monsters of all time, but her shit works and she's a good hand in a promotion for sure."

[3.0] "To me, Nyla was always like a dollar store Awesome Kong. The crowd was never interested in her because she never had anything new to offer the sport. It's a shame that she never took off properly because you can see that she's a good person and never hurts her opponents, but her performance falls pretty short"

[5.0] "A solid female powerhouse, it doesn't enchant at all but it also delivers enough for what is proposed. She has an important character for any company."

[1.0] "Doesn't do it for me, clunky and slow in the ring, can't cut good promos and in general can't have a good match. Don't see the appeal and seems like her having a funny personality on twitter gives her extra points in the ring because she can't work."

[6.0] "Nyla is a solid powerhouse in the ring. She has good power moves but is not always the smoothest in the ring. Her promos are not good and need work. She has a great gimmick and gets good reactions from her character work"

[5.0] "Refreshing to see a believable female powerhouse but she's sometimes too sloppy for my taste. She hasn't had the big spotlight in AEW for quite some time but maybe combine that with a gimmick change and you could possibly push her."

[6.0] "Nyla Rose is kind of feast or famine. She's had fantastic matches with Riho and Shida. But everything else has been either pretty mediocre, or a waste of time squash match. Her title reign was kind of wasted since they didn't do anything with her after she won it. Also dragged down by Vickie Guerrero, who is much less charismatic than Nyla Rose. But in the end, I've seen Nyla Rose have excellent matches, so I feel like she's been the victim of bad booking. Over the last year she's been able to show a lot more of her charisma, and it's clear that Nyla is a lot of fun."

[8.0] "Nyla has always been one of my favorite members of AEW's women's division, and it's not hard to see why. She's a great performer, and has a great gimmick as a monster. Where she lacks in her promo skills, Vickie Guerrero lifts her up. Recently, however, she's been paired with Marina Shafir, which has been kinda cringey, as Marina isn't really on Nyla's level. Rose deserved that AEW Women's Title reign she got, and really deserves another when Tony Khan decides to book her again."

[6.0] "He was better at the beginning of his career in AEW. Now she is simply a fighter who participates in Dark and is sometimes randomly thrown in to fight the big names. Unfortunately booking was not fair to her."

[9.0] "Turn her face, please! Her Twitter is witty and funny, but it translates to TV: who can forget "joke's on you bitch, I LOVE cake! " Also, she's legit; she worked and trained in Japan and is a former AEW champ, but this was all as the monster. She's got a babyface run just waiting to happen."

[5.0] "Solid monster heel that can put on a good match when paired with the right opponent. Overall, she's good but not great. Her mic work is something lacking though she does have some charisma. She clearly needs a mouthpiece and I think Vicki serves a solid choice. Her twitter persona is fantastic though and certainly worth a follow. She shows great personality there but in the ring she can struggle. Still, she's a solid heel though I think it would be fun to see how she performs as a face as well."

[6.0] "Nyla Rose is fantastic on Twitter. She displays great humor and a gift for being witty. However, her beast character seems flat and cheap to me. Without having a bad arsenal of movements, perhaps because of her feuds, I have never been able to believe her as a powerful powerhouse. I also think her pairing with Vickie is unnecessary because the heat gets diluted. Because of her age, it will be difficult to see her character change, but I would like her to abandon the current gimmick and even try being a babyface for a while to see what she can do. I hope she has a long career and raises the grade I've given her in a few months."

[8.0] "If you put Nyla Rose in your all-time top 5 list of best big-woman wrestlers, I wouldn't argue with you. She's not quite at the level of Bull Nakano, Aja Kong, or Awesome Kong, but she's getting there, slowly but surely. Nyla seems to have great chemistry with almost everyone she works with, and does a great job of looking like a (pardon the pun) beast while also making her opponents look strong at the same time. She's also got great agility for someone her size, and her top-rope diving knee drop finisher is something to behold. Unfortunately for her she's in AEW's women's division, which means she's been mostly booked poorly since debuting. Her generic "Native Beast" gimmick just doesn't jive with her personality or her mannerisms, and after her initial championship run she's really just done nothing of note except for being paired with Vickie Guerrero and randomly earning and then losing the occasional title match. But again, and I'll keep saying it until I'm blue in the face, Tony Khan simply does not know how to book female wrestlers, full stop, so you can't really place any of her lack of momentum on her. Hopefully AEW gets their shit together with the division at some point and they can use Nyla to her full potential. Or maybe she can just peace out to Impact where women's wrestling actually matters."

[5.0] "She's definitely clumsy and occasionally amateurish, but Nyla is also one of the few in the AEW Women's division who looks like a genuine threat and not just an athlete who just so happened to fall into wrestling like others in the company. She has her character work down pretty solidly to get over the idea of her being a powerhouse monster. Her promos are still pretty generic, but everything leading up to when she gets on the mic is really good. She just has that compelling look and aura about her. If she can become smoother and really direct her style towards being even more overwhelmingly powerful (without leading into dangerous territory) then she could actually become a top star in the company. She looked set to be the "ace heel" of AEW when the company first started, but she rather quickly fell out of favour after her first title reign. She still gets a push every now and then, but not to the point that she feels anywhere near as important or as serious of a threat as she felt in the first 6 months of Dynamite. I'm hoping she somehow develops into another Aja Kong bruiser/monster who destroys her opponents, since she could really add some colour to the AEW Women's division that way. For now, she still had a lot of work to do, plus probably a lot of waiting to do before her time comes round again."

[8.0] "Nyla is very charismatic and plays the monster role well (though her booking doesn't do anything to back it up). There is a huge face run waiting ahead for her and I hope it's capitalized on."

[9.0] "Nyla has an incredible presence and is one of the best in the world right now, she ticks all the boxes you want in a BEAST. The way she walks, the way she TALKS (not enough credit is given to her for being a concise and energetic promo) and especially the way she wrestles. A misguided current-day contemporary for her is Nia Jax, but if you go back to the originator, Awesome Kong, you can see a bit of the influence and the flattery is not lost on us. She's dope. And, finally, awesome powerbomb. Just 10/10 in that department. She'll be a 10 soon enough, just needs a larger body of work"

[10.0] "Nyla Rose is (and I'm not kidding) the best female wrestler in AEW. There are some other contenders, who could reach her level with a little bit improvement (Britt Baker, Thunder Rosa or Kris Statlander) but there is not someone else who has the full package yet: Great in the ring, on the mic and charismatic."

[8.0] "Nyla Rose is a pretty decent wrestler. She's big but she still bumps her ass off to get things over and her move set is pretty unique. I really like her diving knee while her opponent is stuck in the ropes. She's a decent promo but doesn't really get to talk much because of Vickie. She doesn't have chemistry with everyone, but if herself and her opponent have chemistry the match is usually very solid. Pretty good, very underrated."

[9.0] "I think Nyla is very underrated. When looking at her match history in AEW she's really is up there with having some of the best matches in the division: basically any match against a joshi wrestler, her matches with Tay Conti and Kris Statlander show she's also able to help less experience talent (Statlander being pretty decently experienced though). She's also great fun in multi-women matches. She's long overdue for a face run. Like another commenter said, she has a lot of charisma and personality that's yet to be shown."

[6.0] "Nyla has had good matches with the likes of Hikaru Shida, but her pairing with Vickie Guerrero really has not done anything for her. She had a very poorly booked AEW Women's title reign. EDIT 2021 - She's really improved a lot, I feel! She's probably had the best work of her career this year."

[5.0] "She's not my favorite in between the ropes, but I do respect that she's been treated like a serious threat since she started in AEW."

[7.0] "She unfortunately got the Kane-esque booking right off the bat in AEW and seems forever destined to be the monster heel who doesn't actually accomplish much. There are worse roles to have, I suppose. She's definitely got a great babyface run in her, but her size means she'll inevitably revert back to heel."

[4.0] "I won't get into the silly he/she debate (even though that's what everybody wants). Wrestling-wise, Nyla is just not very good. The character has no coherence (an absolute powerhouse can't have no impactful maneuver) and the lack of in-ring experience is clearly visible."

[4.0] "Nyla's ability just doesn't line up with the way the character is presented. For a character who is billed as a monster powerhouse, she consistently struggled with power moves. When working with a skilled opponent, she can have a solid match."

[5.0] "I would like to say that having a transgender wrestler in the women's division is an awesome thing, and that shouldn't be forgotten or ridiculed, but as for in-ring work, Nyla Rose isn't extremely special. She can have great matches, but only paired with the right opponent. Her look is good, promos are subpar but tolerable, and with some more exposure, she can reach great potential, but as of now, she's mid-tier, especially compared to the various other members of AEW's Women's division."

[7.0] "A solid and convincing monster heel, she can be more polished in her ring work but she does her role well."

[8.0] "Nyla Rose is an excellent powerhouse/monster heel type of performer. Based on what I've seen of her in AEW, I'd say she's good-not-great as a worker. Excellent charisma in the ring, but her promos, while perfectly fine, don't really stand out."

[6.0] "So far, Nyla's AEW run has been pretty unimpressive, which is as much a result of AEW's women's division having had a lackluster focus as it is the result of her rather underwhelming matches so far. She is larger and more powerful than the other women in the division, but pales in comparison to Awesome Kong -- this poses a problem, as she cannot be booked as the unbeatable monster. So instead, she is booked as crazy and " extreme" , using tables and brawls to get a reaction. So far, it is not working for me, but I admit she does have potential. Let's see what the next few months have to offer. UPDATE (13. 02. 2020): She showed me something the last few weeks. Let's see if the upward trend continues."

[7.0] "Great potential, but given her age, I'm uncertain as to whether or not we'll ever see it. Nyla Rose, however, is awesome at what she does, I just wish that AEW would give her some more mic time, as she really can talk."

[9.0] "Very underrated performer, imo. She's fast and agile for her size, though she doesn't lean into that very much, and very charismatic. Her flying knee is killer."

[6.0] "She's a solid monster heel but honestly not super impressive. Decent strength, decent endurance, the right look for a power heel."

[5.0] "For someone who's supposed to be AEW's beast, they've certainly done her no favors with her booking up to this point. She reminds me of Joe, in which she talks a big game, but flops when the matches happen. She played second fiddle to Awesome Kong in her debut & then had plenty of trouble against 90 pound Riho in her second match. I think she could be an asset to AEW & I think a singles match with Shida is money, but they have to establish her as a monster first & they are failing to do that."

[6.0] "Has put on some good matches but loses more than a woman of her size should. But as most of us know normal logic and physics don't always apply to pro wrestling but what the promoters think will make the most money. At least she has had a couple of title runs and it's only been about 3 years since her career began. Giving her a 6. 0 for now but hope to see her improve."