10 Completely RANDOM Cameos In AEW
8. KUSHIDA
KUSHIDA is a pre-eminent professional wrestler.
He is a wrestler's wrestler, a pioneer of the modernistic puroresu style that perfectly balances his MMA-influenced submission-focused style with a propensity for murderous, potent strikes and spikes, and he possesses a match catalogue that is as varied as it is world-class. Ruined by WWE, KUSHIDA's threatening in-ring IQ equipped him to find his feet once more as one of the very best wrestlers in the world.
But do you remember his solitary AEW match?
Nope.
He challenged Darby Allin for the TNT Championship on Dynamite's 18 January, 2023 broadcast, doing so in a prolific 13-minute and 38-second clash that the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer voted an earnest four stars. KUSHIDA, though not on the level of his superhuman NJPW performances that dominated the mid-2010s Tokyo Dome cards, worked such a style that elevated Allin to another level, while helping stake his claim to that best wrestler in the world accolade he's long been in contention for.
KUSHIDA now splits his time between NJPW and TNA following his sudden, yet unsurprising 2022 exit from WWE, a full-time AEW stint having alluded the 41-year-old.