10 WWE Releases AEW Needs To Sign

by John Bills

1. Rusev

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How is Rusev not the biggest babyface in the professional wrestling world? Impossibly charismatic, handsome, talented and utterly magnetic, the Bulgarian Brute has been on the cusp of megastardom for years, despite WWE’s best efforts to relegate him to irrelevance. What an utterly preposterous, preposterous company. Miroslav Barnyashev was a can’t miss, but WWE didn’t even shoot.

It was no great surprise to see Rusev’s name on the list of the released, and the man from Plovdiv will have no shortage of suitors when everything is back to normal. He could quite easily make bank in Japan, having all-time great matches with Tomohiro Ishii, Kota Ibushi, Kazuchika Okada and all the rest. Heck, he could probably go into movies, if that’s what he wants.

The wrestling world wants Rusev to turn up in AEW. The former WWE United States Champion has the ability to become a genuine crossover star, such are his intangible qualities. In WWE, Rusev showed that he could turn lemons into lemonade, that he could get over equally as a monster heel and as a sympathetic babyface, and that he could have great matches with a variety of opponents. Throw in a run as the company’s top merchandise seller and proof that the moustache can work, and you’ve got a generational star in the making.

Miro Day is coming, make no mistake about that.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.