10 Wrestlers With The AEW Stink
7. Jake Hager
Jake Hager has happily walked behind Chris Jericho since AEW launched in 2019, playing the bodyguard role reasonably well when he wasn't expected to do a great deal more.
His natural deadpan leant credence to his task as the Inner Circle's simpleton hoss, but as the group have splintered in recent months, it's become even more apparent how far below his old and new colleagues he is in the AEW pecking order.
A failure to emerge with much credit after laboured efforts against Dustin Rhodes and Jon Moxley in AEW's first year did that reputation no favours, and only when tagging with 'Le Champion' has Hager felt anything close to the peak standard expected on Wednesday nights.
Jericho legendarily bantered off Hager's old "We The People" catchphrase on the second ever episode of Dynamite, but that deathblow might need undoing in the months to come if the former World Heavyweight Champion finds himself on the outs. It was a bit stupid and it did come from bad creative, but at least it was over.