10 Completely RANDOM Cameos In AEW
6. Marko Stunt
AEW doesn't do releases. Not in great numbers anyway.
No wrestling promotion should, without reason. News of WWE's budget cuts, an event that was close to replacing Monday Night Raw as the longest-running weekly episodic programme in history, are oft-met with a despondent wave of numbness across even the most pro-WWE wrestling circles. It is an inevitability, though, self-inflicted by WWE's talent-hoarding petulance.
AEW, following the same rationale, should perhaps spring clean its own payroll more often.
The company has rarely let performers go, instead parting ways when one's contract has expired or when personal beef spills into the go position, and Tony Khan's life is at risk.
Marko Stunt falls into the former category; his AEW deal expired in May 2022 and the bell tolled on his All Elite venture...for two years.
Stunt, you see, is the anomaly to the general rule of thumb AEW employs when rotating its conveyor belt of unofficial All Eliters. He wasn't a big-time free agent finally arriving in 'that pissant company'; he was an AEW alum who happened to fit the narrative at the time.
Bizzarely rocking up on Collision's 6 July, 2024 episode, he challenged, unsuccessfully, for ex-Jurassic Express teammate Jack Perry's TNT Championship. The match wasn't particularly great, it didn't propel Perry's story forward, and it didn't relight the fire Tony Khan first saw in 'Mr Fun Size'.
So what was the point?