The Problem With Andrade That No One Wants To Talk About
A hungry Andrade unleashed on the wider wrestling world is an exciting proposition.
Whether he landed in New Japan, AEW, Impact Wrestling, or CMLL, he'd immediately be a top-five worker on the roster and a pushable commodity right out the gates. If he signs with an American promotion and he and the former Zelina Vega end up on the same roster, tremendous. They can pick up exactly where they left off. If he goes full-time in Mexico or Japan, no problem: he has gotten over in these countries on his own before.
And we know he's hungry because he asked for his release rather than sitting around, waiting for a pink slip that may never come. Andrade doesn't want to sit in catering and gather dust. He wants to work, and if he didn't, he wouldn't be trying to engineer an exit.
Barring a disaster, Andrade will become a bigger asset to another wrestling promotion than he ever was to Vince McMahon's company. The market leaders will again learn nothing from this, and their giant vaults of money will tell them they don't have to.
Strictly, they don't.
But it'd be nice if the world's largest wrestling promotion could learn how to build wrestling stars again.