25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2024

18. Big Bill Joins The Learning Tree

Chris Jericho
AEW

There wasn't loads to love about 2023 AEW in totality, but the rise and rise of Big Bill was a wonderful and emotionally restorative sight to behold. 

First as a boy-popper of a solo star towering over the competition and then the heater element of a red hot Tag Team Championship unit with Ricky Starks, the artist formerly known as Big Cass had finally found a wrestling second life that seemed to fit him as well as he fit the jeans he sported as part of his perfectly obnoxious aesthetic. 

Alas, you get over, you get Chris Jericho.

Leeching off anything and everything as has unfortunately become his wont over the last couple of years, Jericho's Learning Tree stable was copy-of-a-copy stuff following on from the Jericho Appreciation Society, with Bill reduced to the muscle spot previously occupied by Jake Hager. He's still funny with it and teases of the eventual turn show promise, but the "vortex" is no work; Big Bill need only look at multiple former colleagues to see how easy it is to get swallowed up. 

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