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He's been my favorite back when I used to watch WWE and it's always been frustrating to see how the writing team treated him. He's an incredible athlete and probably would have made it elsewhere, however WWE simply prefers bulky guys. Let's see if AEW works out for him.
@De_Narm @GeekFTW watch some of his old Lucha Underground matches (hes Prince Puma there) and you will see he can do soooo much more than he was allowed in WWE
I need to see if his promo game changes.
One of the best goddamn wrestlers in the world, but as far as I've ever seen him (which has basically just been WWE), his promo abilities have been his biggest weakness. Like 2 outa 10 bad. That could just be him not being able to swallow the bullshit script from Vince (at the time), but I need to see if he can improve that.
On the indies, fuck the promo he can just go and give ya 10/10 main eventing and winning titles. In AEW he may hit the same ceiling promo wise if it's him and not the scripts that were the issue. That being said even if he's the worst promo in the world, AEW will still be glad to use him for his ring skills so he'll be much better off one way or the other, plus I have no doubt he'll hit up all the indies.
There are so many things that can be done with a Manager though. Sure, he may never be able to be a white meat baby face world champion, or always in the hottest fueds, but he can easily carry a workhorse belt for a decade.
Oh absolutely. My concerns promo-wise are with if they put him in the world title picture (which ya never know, but I don't think they will). You need to be a good talker. Even Roman talks and he has fucking Heyman to talk for him which is as good as you can get. Hell for all we know he could be Shakespeare when doing promo's naturally, we'll see soon.
Every other title AEW has? Zero problems in my book. Could sound like Eugene when giving promos and I think he'd be fantastic lol.
Who would be your ideal manager for him?
I think there is a lot of good story to be told if Callis recruits him to get back at Ospreay.
That sounds like it would work well. Do you have any picks if he had stayed with WWE?
Tbh I haven't watched WWE since NXT went to shit, so I don't really feel I'd have a good pick.
Them's is fightin' words. Seriously though, in your opinion, what do you not like about it?
I'm assuming they're referring to 'NXT 2.0' cause holy fuck did it make everyone miss Black & Gold lol.
Like, I get it. I wasn't part of it, but I understand the sentiment. To still hold a grudge seems kind of silly. Right now honestly may not be the best time for them, but the past couple years I have been watching have been fantastic. It's never going to be Black & Gold again. We have that at AEW
Edit: 2.0 gave us Gunther, Bron Breakker, Tiffany Stratton, Ilja Dragunov, and sooooo many more. Now we have Giulia and Vaquer coming in to liven the place back up. Not to mention the TNA cross over. It's getting a little stale, but has been a ton of fun. I love TNA now. I think Shawn is doing a terrific job and isn't getting enough credit.
Apologies if I am being too defensive. I mean nothing by it, just throwing out my opinion
Yep. I loved B&G, 2.0 lost me hard and never got me back, but I also have like 30 promotions I follow so idgaf lmao. But I still check in when interesting stuff occurs.
I'll be the first to admit I'm a fan boy lol. I get not having room for another promotion, no biggie, but to actively hate on it when you could just go watch AEW baffles me
2.0
This right here. He was repped by Konan in Lucha Underground and I believe did not speak for quite a while. It worked fine for that setting. If I remember right, I saw people saying he shouldn't have started talking. Until he can further a story on the mic he was always going to be another midcard in WWE. AEW should work much better for him in my opinion. Mic skills don't need to be as strong, and I feel he will have a little more freedom in the ring to go wild