10 Wrestlers That Became Stars In ONE SECOND
6. Wheeler Yuta (AEW Rampage, April 6th 2022)
The Wheeler Yuta story has been far from a rushed one in AEW (he debuted as a Best Friends surrogate in June 2021 losing to Karl Anderson and only earned his spot in the Blackpool Combat Club in April 2022), but the way in which he went from mere prospect to William Regal's newest killer was a nice acceleration from the norm.
His run has been defined by the matches with Moxley specifically, but it was as he drove his bloodstained sneaker through the former AEW Champion's head in the latter stages of their third encounter that the realisation of his ascension set in.
Yuta fell to Mox in just 47 seconds the first time they fought. He spent almost as long kicking the f*cking sh*t out of the hardest man in the company as came within a whisker of defeating him in their Rampage classic. Covered in blood and with a BCC membership assured, Yuta's glare down the lens was the sort of moment only this specific kind of pursuit could have earned.