10 Familiar Faces AEW Should Sign

All Elite Wrestling have burst out of the gate with their ticket sales blowing expectations out of the water. Their hype and interest level in their product is red hot at the moment even before their first television show airing. And the most interesting part is the way they’ve done it.

AEW have built a product around wrestling first, a departure from the trajectory of WWE’s product over the past couple of decades (if not longer). Not only that, but the wrestling is wildly diverse. You could pick your favorite style of wrestling, whether it's hardcore, technical, women’s, high flying, whatever, and you’re likely to find something across the AEW card that will scratch that itch.

The structure of the roster helps with this as well. There are so many different types of talented wrestlers, and apparently only about 40% of the roster has been revealed. This of course leads to loads of speculation on who may be already signed, or who is next to put pen to paper with the upstart company. And that also leads to plenty of familiar names joining the rumor mill.

The aforementioned diversity of the product leaves the possibilities wide open. CM Punk has endlessly heard the speculation first hand and will likely not be the last big name causing the rumour mill to rotate after Jon Moxley’s huge debut.

Without mentioning Punk for the millionth time, who could be the next familiar face to post that they are “#AllElite”?

It's Wednesday night wars. You know what that means.

If you follow Luke Harper (of WWE, to give his proper title) on Twitter, you will have read something very similar to this (sans the extra two words for context) since 31 October 2016. What does this cryptic social media account mean?

Well, it very well could have coincided with when Harper growing dissatisfied with his stint in WWE. This could have been a countdown of sorts to the end of his contract. It originally was thought to be ending in November 2019. But then, he requested early release in April. WWE not only said no, they also found a loophole allowing them to add six more months to his deal due to injuries, extending it to around May.

So this one is a bit of a waiting game, for sure. But there seems to be more to the story as to why he requested his release when he did, and the subsequent extension. Was it a knee jerk reaction to Jon Moxley? Or were they convinced he was already jumping ship?

We can’t be sure at this point, at least until his new extension runs out. But it sure does seem like a new day is coming for Harper. And you know what that means.