10 WWE Wrestlers Who Must Also Join AEW

1. Bray Wyatt

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Forget salvaging The Dark Order. Forget the long and winding saga between Kenny Omega and Hangman Page. Forget salvaging The Dark Order a second time.

Rehabilitating the credibility of Bray Wyatt would be AEW's greatest creative achievement.

Here's the thing - you can't say Wyatt needs "saving" or "fixing" or whatever because fans and stans alike will be straight on to note that the creation of The Fiend has resulted on him making even more than his presumably fairly healthy WWE cheque. His percentage of all those four-figure belts, the masks and the puppets of his puppets on WWEShop.com have made his career choice a financially fruitful one. But he's neither the worker nor creative force he seemingly could be.

His matches are plodding and cumbersome, persistently undercutting the characters he portrays. The storylines are hack horror bullsh*t that take advantage of wrestling fans not having high enough standards or expectations. He's scary to children, but the old grownups booking the laughable demise of his title reigns book monster slayers as a far more terrifying force than the monsters themselves.

AEW has proven itself a place of relative logic, careful structure and a universe with tight rules. If he gets over beyond novelty anywhere, it's there.

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