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After a profitable SummerSlam for WWE and as All Elite Wrestling prepares for All In and All Out, a number of gifted performers in each corporations are being massively underutilized.
The hope from wrestling followers is that stars corresponding to Abadon, Shelton Benjamin, Cedric Alexander and the tag group of Alba Fyre and Isla Daybreak are put in a greater place for the remainder of this 12 months and into 2024.
With far an excessive amount of expertise to sit down on the sidelines, listed here are the wrestlers who ought to be utilized extra typically on tv by the AEW and WWE artistic groups.
Alba Fyre and Isla Daybreak
When Shawn Michaels and the artistic group in NXT paired Alba Fyre and Isla Daybreak as a tag group, many followers have been left questioning if the partnership could be mutually useful, however the end result was pure magic.
After profitable the NXT ladies’s tag group titles, they dominated their competitors earlier than being known as as much as the primary roster for a match in opposition to Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler.
Whereas it was clear Fyre and Daybreak had the expertise to face toe-to-toe with the MMA veterans, the important thing was for Triple H and the artistic group to maintain the gifted duo’s momentum going even after they misplaced the championships.
Sadly, Fyre and Daybreak have been solid apart and relegated to wrestling on home exhibits.
The hope now could be that with Sonya Deville’s knee damage, WWE will do the best factor and construct the ladies’s tag group division round Fyre and Daybreak and permit the 2 gifted performers to elevate the curse related to the titles.
Abadon
After overcoming a extreme damage final 12 months, it is time for Tony Khan and the AEW artistic group to lastly e-book Abadon correctly by constructing a professional character and giving her an precise storyline.
The 31-year-old has probably the most distinctive characters in all of wrestling, however she hasn’t been used on common tv since 2021.
As an alternative of letting her wallow in darkish matches like she did when wrestling on AEW Darkish, she wants to start attacking members of the ladies’s division till her credibility is unquestionable.
After changing into a menace to each heels and faces within the ladies’s division, she ought to set her eyes on a belt, whether or not or not it’s the TBS Championship or the ladies’s world title.
If Khan and his group are sensible, they’d rent somebody like Father James Mitchell to behave as Abadon’s mouthpiece and construct a secure round her, presumably consisting of gifted performers corresponding to Vinny Marseglia, Dutch and different horror-inspired characters.
Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin
Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin are two of essentially the most gifted performers in wrestling at the moment, however they’ve been solid apart in storylines and used as glorified jobbers not too long ago within the tag group division.
Since beating Chad Gable and Otis on February 6, they’ve misplaced each televised tag group match and never appeared in a bout on Uncooked since June. With ample TV time to fill every week, there is no such thing as a method they need to be sitting in catering.
The tag group division on each Uncooked and SmackDown might use an infusion of athleticism and leisure, and Alexander and Benjamin ought to be preventing for the No. 1 contendership as quickly as doable.
Even when the transfer is to NXT so as to add professional contenders positioned to raise the youthful competitors, the gifted performers should be adequately utilized.
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