10 Wrestlers With The AEW Stink

3. Men Of The Year

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Within the confines of the kayfabe AEW likes to keep, the Men Of The Year act is all over the f*cking shop.

Scorpio Sky is a wrestler who tweets his employers to ask why significant success in their mandated wins/losses ranking system isn't generating more title shots for him. The post-Revolution TNT Title win was overdue, but the failure of his push up to this point was damned by how many viewers immediately assumed he’d be a transitional champion.

Ethan Page debuted at Revolution 2021 and has only been a Man Of The Year in the sense that he has literally existed on television for the last 12 months. His singles form doesn't put him in the tier with Sky, but the duo are nowhere near tag gold either. That speaks to something, but it isn't progress.

And speaking of speaking, Dan Lambert as a mouthpiece has never quite worked either. The American Top Team gaffer rules on the stick, but the very barbs he lauched at Cody Rhodes and other from his Jim Cornette-shaped platform should theoretically stick to his charges too. We're asked to ignore that just because, but yet again molehills become mountains when there's no major success to speak of in the one thing that still matters most - winning wrestling matches.

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