25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2024
15. Christopher Daniels Becomes AEW Assistant To The Regional Manager
Of all the lost booking principles separating original AEW from 2024's version, the inclusion of authority figures beyond the virtually invisible Tony Khan was simultaneously the most disappointing and most baffling.
In 2023, Khan became guilty of using his special announcements (insert your favourite synonym from the ones he tried) to preserve his status as the key decision-maker, but when his organisation was kayfabe taken over by The Elite, he deployed longtime Young Bucks rival as the Interim Executive Vice President.
Or, sort of did. Daniels made some decisions of his own but didn't exactly have to wrestle control from The Jacksons, Kazuchika Okada or Jack Perry. And even when he was standing up to them, it was often only because he was given jurisdiction to do so by Khan. Furthermore, Dynamite didn't change all that much for the power grab, and The Elite pretty much left Collision alone, so when Daniels did exert any kind of power, he was cast as something of a jobsworth.
Undignified and unnecessary, the role remains in spite of increasing irrelevance.