10 Wrestlers Who DESTROYED Their Career In A Single Moment

3. Andrade El Idolo

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This entry might date badly, depending on what happens when AEW launches Collision in a few months.

AEW has a roster big enough for a brand split already, not that that justifies a brand split. Does anything? Who wants the threat of a second World title? Who wants to watch two more hours of a promotion that has probably already peaked creatively? Who wants to work with CM Punk?

Not many people, so expect a lot of CMFTR matches against anybody who can bother to stand up with a passive aggressive sigh and make their way to the ring.

Andrade, clearly angling for a job in Triple H's 2022 WWE months before it became Vince McMahon's 2023 WWE again, punched out Sammy Guevara when he had previously threatened to punch out Sammy Guevara and somehow wasn't separated from him at the taping. He was banished to metaphysical catering and has recovered from surgery in the interim.

Unlike Punk, Andrade has no leverage. He underwhelmed in AEW outside of a few great matches that were as a dumb as they were spectacular - where most wrestlers sell a limb, he sold his brain tissue is gruesome head drop festivals - and simply isn't a needle-moving star. AEW books countless other wrestlers who can bring what he does to the table, i.e. ***3/4 to ****1/4 matches, and he will never, ever be trusted with a proper top guy role.

Andrade is too talented not to get another crack somewhere at some point, but the star run many projected onto him is never, ever going to happen now.

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