8 Wrestlers That Visibly Hated Working For AEW

6. Ivelisse

Ivelisse has never lasted in a major promotion of renown. She has a reputation for being unprofessional. This is a euphemism.

She had a real shot of finally getting somewhere in AEW, because the AEW of 2020 was severely lacking in women’s talent. This was the result of several factors. Things are rapidly, thankfully changing, but a relatively very small number of women of age were available, since WWE’s misogynistic monopoly years did not make for a training school application form. WWE had recruited many of the few who were willing by finally taking women seriously 95 years after they won the right to vote. AEW had attempted to book around this green and shallow talent pool, by importing experienced and acclaimed joshi talents, but the worldwide pandemic had confined many of them to Japan by the time Ivelisse got her shot.

Ivelisse was credible, a stiff and mostly accomplished in-ring worker. If she got her head down, she could have earned a push - the plight of the women’s division was such that Tony Khan had struck up a working relationship with of all promotions Billy Corgan’s NWA to fill out its ranks. Khan was likely very aware of the stigma surrounding Ivelisse, since rumours have haunted every run she’s ever had, but needs must.

Ivelisse did get her head down - but that is because she had a problem cooperating with Thunder Rosa and basically just sat still and looked bored when Rosa attempted to apply a half-nelson.

She looked like an uncooperative small child in there.