10 Wrestlers Who Turned Down AEW
4. Ben Carter
Ben Carter is a unique talent when looking at the names on this list, for he is the only wrestler here to have actually wrestled in an AEW ring. While Nick Aldis and Marty Scurll did compete at the first All In show, that wasn't formally under the AEW name at that point in time.
As for Carter, he's these days found under the WWE banner and signed to the NXT UK brand.
After putting on a ludicrously fun - and much-lauded - match with Lee Johnson on AEW Dark last September, Carter became the talk of the wrestling industry. He and Johnson absolutely tore it up, and the fans, wrestlers and news outlets were all abuzz with what both Ben Carter and Lee Johnson could bring to the AEW table.
That fun Johnson bout was followed up by another stellar outing for Carter against Scorpio Sky, and it seemed a given that the 22-year-old would be the latest name to formally sign with AEW. Instead, it was WWE where Ben Carter saw his future - with him having talked up how it was his childhood dream to compete inside a WWE ring.