The One Wrestler WWE Need To Push In 2019

Andrade, on his own, is a great pro-wrestling act.

This is the man who, alongside Johnny Gargano, brought five-star matches back to WWE after a six-and-a-half year absence. He's a phenomenal in-ring talent. Phenomenal. Such things are subjective, of course, but there are only a handful of main roster names who impress your writer more than the former 'Cien' does whenever he steps through the ropes.

That he doesn't have an abundance of outstanding non-NXT matches is no fault of his own. Vastly underutilised after his call-up, Andrade looked good opposite Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles, but wasn't given enough opportunities to build a body of work comparable to his main event counterparts. Regardless, he's an exciting, hard-hitting athlete with a fun moveset punctuated by understated brutality. Recent years have also proven him a master when it comes to mapping effective match layouts, and he, like any star, carries himself like the biggest deal in the room.

A victim of lacklustre presentation during his suspenders-and-fedoras run in NXT, turning heel improved Andrade's fortunes tenfold. There was still one problem, though: the man can't talk. His English isn't strong enough to run solo programmes, and that's a potential stumbling block in a company like WWE, where segments are infinitely more important than matches.

It doesn't matter, though. None of it does...

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