Ricochet GOES OFF On WWE, Says Raw Call-Up Was "Worst Thing" In His Career (AEW News)

Speaking on The Mark Hoke Show (via f4wonline), AEW's Ricochet has compared his time on the WWE main roster to "being blipped away into another universe".

More precisely, the current AEW National Champion referenced the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame when looking back at his time on the main roster. In those two movies, the villainous Thanos has finally collected all of the Infinity Stones, and he uses his newfound abilities to erase half of all life out of existence, including the likes of Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, and Nick Fury. By the time all is said and done with Avengers: Endgame, those "blipped" names were brought back to life after a five-year absence, partly down to Tony Stark sacrificing himself for the greater good.

For Ricochet, he said that his time on the WWE main roster wasn't the real him, and that "coming back to AEW and finding that love, it's like when Tony Stark finally defeated Thanos, and all the people came back. That's how I feel. Ricochet finally came back to what he was doing, and I feel like that five years was just blipped away."

The One and Only added, "I know how people are going to take this, but I think that the day we got called up to Raw was the worst thing that happened to Ricochet's wrestling career." The 37-year-old believes that his time on the WWE main roster "changed the public's image" of him, and that those "five years really tarnished Ricochet's wrestling legacy."

Clearly enjoying his time in AEW, Ricochet also said that "the Ricochet I am now is the same Ricochet that I was on the independent scene and in Japan, and doing the things that got me popular to where I am today."

Ricochet signed with WWE in early 2018, immediately becoming a standout attraction of the NXT brand, where he'd win the NXT North American Championship and team with Alesiter Black to win the 2019 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. Having made his main roster bow in early 2019, the electric high-flyer would be formally called up to the Raw brand shortly after WrestleMania 35. He'd win the United States Championship and Intercontinental Championship during his time on the main roster, though fans, and seemingly the man himself, were often left frustrated with how Ricochet was featured when compared to his NXT run or his pre-WWE days in the likes of Lucha Underground, PWG, or NJPW.