10 Wrestlers AEW Plucked From Complete Obscurity
8. Luchasaurus
He's a f*cking wrestling dinosaur, man.
The idea simply couldn't have worked without the smashing of the North American wrestling monopoly in 2019. Not on a major televised platform anyway. WWE defined what it meant to even be one, and what it wasn't was a place that fostered an earnest playfulness. Certainly not one to cast a dinosaur that could also be taken seriously in the right context.
When Luchasaurus debuted on the Double Or Nothing pre-show, he almost stole the entire night from underneath AEW's main roster of Elite mainstays and indie wrestling superheroes. Flying around like a man half his size, the former NXT regular was reborn as the extinct entity.
The Jurassic Express doubles act alongside Jungle Boy gave the entire aesthetic a vibe more wholesome that cute, which made all the difference in helping it transition from the bingo halls to the big time. Nearly three years and a title reign in, and he remains the perfect character on the roster to express why the company's very existence was so important to the mainstream scene.