10 Biggest Frauds In Wrestling Right Now

10. Tony Khan's Surprises

Even piping hot pro wrestling cools off in the end.

Stone Cold Steve Austin getting mowed down by Rikishi in 1999 was a downer, but his 2000 return almost matched that energy. Angry at his mystery aggressor, Austin's character took it out on everybody despite the nice time most of the roster had been permitted to have in his absence. Hulkamania hadn't even reached the stage that Vince McMahon could sell out WrestleMania III by the time he was goo-goo for Tom Magee one year earlier - the Chairman used to try and spot this sort of thing before it went out of date, but just happened to be approximately four years premature in his assessment. Every New World Order iteration was worse than the last one.

This is very simply The Way Of Things, and All Elite Wrestling's surprise arrivals/reveals have very much located saturation point. "Wildcard Wednesday" was the subheading given to May 18th 2022's Dynamite, but surprise appearances by tournament "jokers" (and losers) Johnny Elite and Maki Itoh only furthered the discourse on where half of the existing roster were.

When your audience would rather see familiar faces rather than brand new ones, the device has categorically been exhausted.