10 Wrestlers Who Are The Most Overrated At Precisely One Thing
8. Andrade: Being A Top Star
There's no shame whatsoever in being a stupidly talented upper midcard star, but many wrestlers don't see it that way.
The desire within them to bump in the first place drives them to a level fans can't begin to grasp. They aren't doing this painful vocation to fill some space on a card; they are doing it to one day achieve their dreams.
Andrade, bluntly, has had his chances.
He played the entitled playboy d*ckhead to perfection in CMLL. He was one of the very best "workrate" guys of the 2010s; his NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia match with Johnny Gargano was a lung-bursting squelcher that hit as hard in the ring as it did the hearts of everybody in the crowd. He failed on the WWE main roster - then again, who didn't - but his AEW run didn't go too well either.
The booking was sh*te. His recruiter gimmick went about as well as Freddie Prinze Jr.'s, but he didn't maximise his minutes or do much of anything to prove Tony Khan wrong when given the chance. He piled on the muscle and hit his opponents very, very hard in beautifully sadistic performances, but aside from "OK, how you know?", he did little else but work ***3/4-**** matches. And again: who doesn't nowadays?
Many people - chief among them Andrade himself - project mega-stardom onto him and feel his AEW run was a disgrace.
But he just lacks "it". He dresses for the part impeccably, but you can't play it so easily.