10 Trades WWE & AEW Need To Make

3. Ricochet To AEW

Aleister Black AEW
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Poor Ricochet. Is there a more depressing status in all of modern-day pro wrestling? WWE's inability to do anything meaningful with a generational talent like Ricochet tells you all you need to know about that promotion's creative malaise. And before anyone talks about promo-cutting ability, that argument has never carried weight.

Besides, Ricochet shouldn't have to cut promos, he should just be left to fly around like only he can, performing athletic feats that have the ability to amaze even the most cynical of viewers. Ricochet should be a star. Only WWE can explain why he isn't.

If Ricochet were an AEW talent, he'd almost certainly be appreciably closer to reaching his potential. He'd be having amazing matches with Kenny Omega, PAC, Jon Moxley, Hangman Page and all the rest, looking like a star and making moments built to last. He'd have ample opportunities to prove the naysayers wrong, to spread his wings and display his full range of talents. Instead, he's locked in what looks like a career role jobbing to The Hurt Business.

How do you fail to make a star out of Ricochet?

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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.