11 Times Wrestlers Bet On Themselves (... And LOST!)
6. Bobby Fish And AEW Didn't See The Same Numbers, So He Went Looking For Lies
Among the many talents who Tony Khan decided to take a punt on in late 2021 was a certain one-time Undisputed Era member.
Bobby Fish had been released by WWE in August, and his emergence in AEW two months later had some folks wondering whether TK could somehow recapture the lightning in a bottle that was that super popular NXT faction.
He could not.
Though Fish would go on to challenge for AEW World Tag Team Championship gold alongside a Kyle O'Reilly who made the jump in December 2021, an Undisputed reunion never really properly got going thanks to injuries to Adam Cole and O'Reilly.
By August 31 2022, Fish was gone from the company after his one-year deal had expired, with the former NXT Tag Team Champion eventually noting to Fightful’s Wrestling Perspective Podcast how he felt he was worth more than the number he was offered by AEW to stay.
And what followed this call to bet on himself and walk away from the Elite workplace?
A rather short failure of an Impact run, one that saw him debut, cut one of the most infamously bad promos of modern times (where's the lie?), and getting bested by Impact World Champion Josh Alexander in the space of just one month.
Ever since making the wrong sort of impact, Fish has largely stayed away from the mainstream wrestling scene. But he did pick up his first-ever professional boxing victory in November 2022 - so, that's... something.