10 Wrestlers AEW Failed In 2022

2. Miro

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The fall from grace of Miro has been spectacular to see... and said fall has zero to do with the talent himself.

After an incredibly ropey start to life in AEW - introduced as the Angry Video Game Nerd - Miro really found his footing in early 2021. Now presented as a genuine monster of a man, the Redeemer embarked on a dominant four-month reign as the TNT Champion, with him memorably bending and battering the likes of Darby Allin, Eddie Kingston, Lance Archer and Dante Martin.

Bafflingly, since losing that title to Sammy Guevara on a September '21 episode of Dynamite, the Bulgarian Brute has wrestled just six times, period, and only four of those have come in 2022.

There is the mild caveat that Miro took some time off to shoot the pilot for CBS' East New York, but that only ruled the powerhouse out of action for a relatively short amount of time.

Just last week saw reports of the one-time Rusev being completely healthy, eager to compete, and how AEW has nothing creatively for him right now. Considering how phenomenal a job he did with the TNT Title and with his God-threatening persona, it's insane to realise the 37-year-old hasn't even wrestled a full handful of matches in 2022 - two of which were thrown-together multi-man matches at Forbidden Door and All Out.

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