10 AEW Wrestlers Who Are Almost Unrecognisable Since Debuting

10. Kris Statlander

For a performer that had fans pining for her return and unanimous support behind her being the one to dethrone former TBS Champion Jade Cargill, the awesome and affable Kris Statlander most definitely wasn't for everyone when AEW first launched.

Or, perhaps more reasonably, the alien Kris Statlander wasn't for everybody.

The gimmick was a difficult circle to square in a company that rewarded expression or at very least attempted to encourage it. A sporting framework underpinned by wins and losses wasn't going to be destroyed by one character believing herself to be from another planet, but the nature of her potential powers stood in the way of what the majority of AEW hardcores seemingly wanted. Her giving various friends and broadcasters the "Boop" was used as a stick to beat her with too.

It was only ever inoffensive at its absolute worst, but that was enough for the bad faith voices to get louder the more the gimmick didn't exactly take off. Two devastating injury breaks came with the hidden positive of having an organic opportunity to scale things back until she became a more convincing comeback story than she ever was extra-terrestrial being.