12 Most INSANE Things Wrestlers Have EVER Said On AEW TV

12. Rick Ross Does A No-No

AEW Mogul Affiliates Swerve Strickland Trench Rick Ross Parker Boudreaux
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Before a fateful meeting with Hangman Page propelled him to the main event, it wasn’t looking great for Swerve Strickland. Tony Khan leans on certain tropes too heavily and too often, one of which is “give aimless midcarder a stable to fool fans into thinking we have a plan for them”.

Swerve was saddled with, inexplicably, a total nobody with an entirely tattooed face (Trench) and an Instagram influencer who scored a few WWE and AEW gigs by winning an unofficial Brock Lesnar lookalike contest (Parker Boudreaux). Swerve recruited these dudes as back-up in his abandoned feud with Keith Lee, as was revealed in an infamous segment that unfolded on the 2022 Holiday Bash edition of Dynamite.

Trench and Parker were clunky and useless when they attacked Keith - Parker in particular just screamed a lot and body-popped after every rubbish punch he threw - and in an unintentionally hilarious moment, a camera operator captured Swerve’s reaction to his masterplan as he surveyed it on the ramp. He looked nervously at the camera with a “Yeah, I don’t know about this either guys” expression.

Outsized in every way rap star Rick Ross was brought in to mediate the face-to-face before it went awry. At least, that was the plan: it went awry before it even got started. Ross, who later said he saw Lee’s shoulders and trapezoids and had to “express his heart”, stopped himself mid-promo. He looked at Lee with a sense of curiosity and amazement.

He then said to Lee: “You a big motherf*cker”.

This was one of the best worst moments in AEW history, a classic of a dying genre.

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