10 Wrestlers AEW Plucked From Complete Obscurity
9. Powerhouse Hobbs
Powerhouse Hobbs had been at this a fair old time when he finally got his break in AEW, but a debut match in 2009 doesn't really tell the whole story of his long trip to the big time.
With less than 200 documented matches total, a lack of frequency was surely one of the only things holding this multi-tool player back from industry supremacy and the spotlight he's since managed to grab in AEW.
Carefully protected up to this point, Hobbs was established as a babyface just long enough to ensure his heel turn resonate when he joined Team Taz in 2020, but just about every move he's made since has been in service of the day the group split and he goes it alone.
With a wicked (and narratively malleable) contemporary power game and the all-important magnetic physical charisma, it's genuinely hard to imagine Powerhouse as anything more than a top guy before his All Elite Wrestling run concludes.