10 Wrestlers Even AEW Couldn’t Sign
1. The Fiend
Bray Wyatt's impending WWE comeback has been one of the most buzzworthy storyline developments in the company's recent history, and it borrows from the successful job AEW did with CM Punk's back in 2021.
Well, apart from all the spooky bullsh*t, obviously. But when's that not been a Wyatt qualifier?
In the heady, dreamlike days of an All Elite Wrestling ready to burst forth from the Daily's Place cocoon as pandemic restrictions eased, Punk's name was never dropped but various on-the-nose clues were. Much like's Wyatt's QR codes have paved the way to Extreme Rules 2022, so too did Punk's to a euphoric "First Dance" edition of Rampage last summer. The difference of course, is in the wrestlers themselves.
Punk promised and delivered his fair share of demons and monsters, but at least those were the figurative sorts that had been part of his make-up forever. The mad sh*t Wyatt's offered out over the years goes way, way beyond even the stupidest House Of Black nonsense, and even that felt out of place in AEW. And it always will.