10 Trades WWE & AEW Need To Make

1. Samoa Joe To AEW

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For the briefest moment, it looked as though WWE knew what it was doing when it came to the Samoan Submission Machine. Joe was the number one contender to Brock Lesnar's Universal Championship and he had the Beast Incarnate rattled, not to mention the fear of God he had put into Paul Heyman. Lesnar and Joe had a tremendously fun match at WWE Great Balls of Fire (remember that?), a match that Joe lost but came out of looking like a beast.

And then, nothing. Not entirely nothing - there have been secondary championships - but as good as. As 2020 draws to a close, one of the most engaging professional wrestlers on the planet finds himself forcing excitement at the commentary table.

AEW has a proven track record of succeeding where WWE refused to. Jon Moxley, Brodie Lee, Cody, FTR and others are excelling in the relaxed, creativity-driven environment. There's no reason to believe that AEW would fail to embrace the violence and legitimacy that Samoa Joe brings to the table.

Injuries mean that Joe's days in the ring are numbered. It is criminal that these moments are being wasted in WWE.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.