7 Worst Possible Fates In AEW
One false move and you just might be sucked into one of AEW's perilous black holes
Like any other wrestling promotion, AEW is a weird and wonderful landscape where pushes and exiles go round and round like a rocket-fueled carousel. Like a game of Snakes and Ladders, for every great success story, there are pot holes that bury talent in an instant. Pay close attention to Tony Khan's upstart company, and you can see these issues as clear as day.
If you think about it right now, you can probably imagine a fistful of names that are in exile. For others, they might be seen on our screens regularly, but suffer a deluge of defeats, take their place on PPV pre-shows (at best), and are slowly withering away to nothingness. Then there are those who have simply disappeared entirely, gone without a trace, without so much as a mention.
It's not only talent being banished that's been a problem over the years in AEW. Some of these fates have seen talent pulled into programs so awful that they've struggled to claw their way back into the good graces of fans. There are all manner of hazardous fates that can await superstars in TK's wrestling landscape. Welcome to the landmines on the field of AEW, guaranteed to put a wrestler in the mud.
7. Go Missing For A Year
This is a fate that seems to be falling upon more and more of AEW's roster with every passing year. As soon as the wrestling news cycle begins rumors that a superstar might be ready to jump ship to WWE, it's like they are kidnapped in the dead of night, never to be seen on Dynamite again.
Gone are the days when an up-and-coming talent is given the duty of smashing the alleged deserter into oblivion to be written off TV, as was seen when Bron Breakker almost put Ricochet through a car on Ricochet's last night on Monday Night Raw. When it comes to AEW, these people just seem to vanish overnight. No explanation, and no storyline reason for their absence. Just the coldest of cold shoulders for the wrestler, and confusion for the watching audience.
In the case of someone like Ricky Starks, who was very publicly seen at WrestleMania 40 watching Cody Rhodes finish his story, or Chris Jericho serving public volleys at AEW, it's a little more understandable, as we can see that jumping ship is a certainty. But with Britt Baker being spoken about in glowing terms by Tony Khan during press conferences, while very clearly being frozen out, it's becoming a little more grating. And where the hell are Danhausen and Private Party?