10 Times AEW Made The Critics Look Like IDIOTS
1. "Why Are They Pushing Satnam Singh?"
Your writer shared this opinion too, since Satnam Singh's debut was handled very poorly.
Tony Khan should have learned a lesson from Double Or Nothing 2019. He didn't, and created the expectation of something huge when turning off the lights after Samoa Joe Vs. Minoru Suzuki on the April 13, 2022 Dynamite.
*Hans Moleman voice*
No, he's too huge.
Everybody thought the gigantic and not exactly mobile Satnam was a bad and weird signing for a wrestling-heavy outfit like AEW, and the anticlimactic introduction did not help.
What happened next however was genuinely fantastic. AEW utilised Satnam in much the same way as they do Danhausen: Satnam is an ancillary character who is excellent in the right context. He acted like a double-glazed window when the small bird that was Darby Allin attempted to floor him with a lopé in a great spot last year. Singh shrugged off a gunshot to get himself over as a heater, and he's equally capable of doing comedy through his willingness to send himself up. The visual of Satnam Singh down on the farm in overalls was one of the best AEW sight gags ever.
As endearing as he is imposing, Satnam Singh epitomises the idea that Khan has inherited Paul Heyman's throne as the booker who best accentuates the positives and hides the negatives.
Whether he's creating a meme or a GIF, Satnam Singh rules.