10 Times AEW Took Advantage Of WWE Ignoring The Fans
6. PAC
Frozen out of WWE following an awesome reinvention as the 'King Of The Cruiserweights' in 2017, PAC easily delivered on years of elevated expectations by having total bangers with the greatest of ease.
It's not like he hadn't already shown his pre-existing paymasters what he could do. He spent the better part of 2014 as NXT Champion back when that brand genuinely and earnestly existed to try and forecast what a future main roster might look like. On night one of his call-up, he lost his first name and he'd lose just about everything else by the time he eventually hit the wall there.
His time in Jacksonville hasn't even been some sort of perfect reimagining of those lost years, but standards were set so low that merely living up to his tremendous potential was the central task at hand. That's been a doddle.
A feud with Kenny Omega culminated in a fantastic early-Dynamite encounter, and though the pandemic and visa issues conspired to make his feuds a little clunky over 2020, he's so reliable that half the time a lack of story behind battles barely even matters.