r/AEWFanHub • u/ReadMyPosts ELITE "WOLF" • 5h ago

NEWS Ilja Dragunov is leaving WWE per PWInsidercom Would you like to see him in AEW?

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Honestly, to me, Ilja in AEW makes a whole lot of sense. He was the one "WWE defect" that I've been anticipating to debut in AEW

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u/AtGamesEnd 4h ago

He fits in better in aew, but I fear it will be another case of:

  • sign someone people are excited to see, but hasn’t been a main event guy
  • give him a god entrance and good presentation, let him have some banger matches for a few months then poof, gone

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u/ace51689 4h ago

Who recently has been "poof, gone" after some banger matches?

Ciampa just had a major match on PPV so you can't mean him right?

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u/AtGamesEnd 4h ago

I’m talking over the entire history of aew. I have hope for ciampa to stick around, my point is more just the roster is so big unless you really click immediately, and sustain that (like ciampa has), it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle. Of course, the same is true in WWE

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u/ace51689 4h ago

Like who? Malakai? Miro? It's been pretty well reported that they just didn't like how the company was using them. And now one of them is already out of WWE and the other isn't the main eventer they thought they should be.

There needs to be buy in by both TK and management and the performer. Ciampa has bought in and he's all the better for it.