10 WWE Wrestlers Who Must Also Join AEW
6. Timothy Thatcher
Did Timothy Thatcher wrestle in WCW or something?
That can be the only possible explanation for a bizarre normalisation on NXT that has seen him go from feigning interest in fun and games and surviving the fury of a Fight Pit into tapping out to Dexter Lumis and falling short in every big match ever since.
WWE are obsessed with "protecting" wrestlers in defeat and its warped wins and losses forever. There is a way to lose clean and recover, and NXT used to have as tight a hold on that as AEW do now. Sami Zayn and Bayley couldn't buy wins at various points, but lost in such a way that the eventual win only mattered more. Thatcher's gradually growing into a flat track bully - the sort of sh*thouse that attacks his students with his favourite submissions because he's never good enough to secure them on real wrestlers.
Could he become AEW Champion if he was on Dynamite every week? Perhaps not, but there's enough precedent to assume he could absorb a few losses without having his aura punctured.