10 Wrestlers You Totally Forgot Wrestled For AEW

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Featuring Glacier, Gigi Dolin and a wrestler who, erm, wasn't particularly "Elite"...

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00:00As of me saying these words, a lot of people have worked for AEW.

00:03This sends the internet into meltdown because for some reason,

00:06some folk can't handle individuals getting a job.

00:10We just ignore about that and we do the positive thumb of love.

00:14All Elite Wrestling has been around for a few years now though,

00:17to the point now when you bring up certain wrestlers and you tell some other fan,

00:22they look at you like, well, that can't possibly be true because it doesn't make any sense.

00:26But yes, that is what we're going to talk about today.

00:28So hello, my name is Simon Miller.

00:30Welcome to WhatCulturalWrestling.

00:31Please hit the subscribe button and like and do all that kind of craziness.

00:35And this is 10 wrestlers you totally forgot worked for AEW.

00:38Number 10, Gigi Dolan.

00:40Right now, Gigi Dolan is a top act over in NXT 2.0.

00:44I mean, not only is she a tag team champion, as I've been saying these words,

00:48but she is in the dominant group Toxic Attraction.

00:50And if you are familiar with her work, you know she can go.

00:54And while she was never properly signed to AEW,

00:56she did appear there under her name Priscilla Kelly,

00:59where she took on Britt Baker when AEW was on Chris Jericho's boat.

01:04Now, she did lose to Britt Baker here.

01:07And after the fact, everybody was talking about the fact that Baker had turned heel

01:10after she had gone,

01:10Ha ha, Terry Schiavone, you nothing but a barista.

01:13But the fact is a fact.

01:14The thing is, given that she is so young,

01:16there's every single chance that one day she may return to AEW.

01:20I mean, I doubt they would talk about that.

01:23I'm just throwing this out there.

01:25Number 9, Diamond Dallas Page.

01:26This almost feels like we dreamt it today.

01:29But yes, a couple of years ago,

01:31DDP did indeed appear in AEW.

01:35He first popped up on the 23rd of October 2019 episode of Dynamite

01:38to help out Cody Rhodes,

01:40who at the time was entangled in a wicked web with the inner circle.

01:43Given how close he was to Dusty Rhodes,

01:45this made perfect sense about why he would help his son.

01:48And then he came back to All Elite Wrestling

01:50when MJF won the first ever diamond ring

01:53in order to give him the piece of jewelry.

01:55However, that did not go very well.

01:58So if you can believe it,

02:00he actually entered a match

02:01where he took on Maxwell Jacob Friedman, the Butcher and the Blade.

02:04This happened at Bash at the Beach

02:06as he teamed up with QT Martial and Dustin Rhodes.

02:09And obviously they did lose,

02:10but we still got to see one last diamond cutter.

02:13I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

02:16I popped crazy for this

02:17because who doesn't love DDP?

02:19Number eight, Cameron.

02:20This one was so out of nowhere.

02:22Maybe it was brought forward by the fact

02:24that we were in the middle of a global pandemic.

02:26So AEW felt like they should continue

02:28to throw new ideas at the wall.

02:30But we did have this women's tag team cup thing on YouTube.

02:34And yes, on one of the teams was Cameron.

02:37She teamed with Nyla Rose under her real name, Ariana Andrew.

02:41And the former functodactyl

02:42actually did have a little bit of a story here

02:44because Nyla was like,

02:45I want to team with her.

02:47She's probably going to make me lose.

02:48Since then, Ariana too,

02:49has also returned to WWE in the Royal Rumble.

02:53This is pretty good

02:54because she essentially became a meme for a while.

02:56Because if you remember,

02:57her first taste of wrestling wasn't tough enough

02:59where she told Stone Cold Steve Austin

03:02her favorite match ever

03:03was Melina versus Alicia Fox.

03:06Steve Austin then broke down.

03:08I tell you,

03:09it was a great time to be alive.

03:11But 7 Callisto.

03:12When FTR were future with the Lucha Brothers,

03:14they decided it would be really funny

03:16if they started dressing up as Luchadors

03:18and kind of doing the Lucha style.

03:20As ever, when it comes to Cash and Dax,

03:22they took all of this and they smashed it.

03:24To try and further this too,

03:26Tony Stark booked them against Aerostar

03:28and Samurai Del Sol

03:29on November 2021 episode of Dynamite,

03:32which meant, yes,

03:33here was Callisto from WWE

03:35walking towards an AEW ring.

03:37As it turned out,

03:38this would be a one and done

03:39because even though he did fine

03:40when it came to the wrestling,

03:42there was a lot of controversy

03:43on social media beforehand.

03:45It certainly felt like

03:47he pissed the wrong people off.

03:49So if I was a betting man,

03:50which I'm not

03:50because you should use your money wisely,

03:53I think we're going to see him back.

03:54Number six, Colin Delaney.

03:56Colin Delaney is essentially

03:57the modern day Barry Horowitz.

04:00If you don't know who Horowitz is,

04:01just jump back to the 80s or 90s

04:03and you will see him in squash match

04:04after squash match after squash match.

04:06Now, he's always the guy being beaten,

04:09but for some reason,

04:10he just did it so well.

04:11He patted himself on the back.

04:13I love Baz.

04:14Colin had this role in WWE CW

04:16as well as a ton of other promotions

04:18and basically became one of the guys

04:19you wanted to reach out to

04:21if you just needed to bring somebody in

04:23to have a decent match.

04:24Hence why eventually AEW went,

04:26well, we can do that too.

04:28This saw him have losing efforts

04:29against the likes of Eddie Kingston and Wardlow

04:31and he even teamed with Sean Spears

04:33as Spears was doing his whole,

04:35oh my gosh,

04:35I need to find a tag team partner.

04:37And as ever,

04:38this was really entertaining

04:39because it was essentially

04:41the chairman just yelling at Colin

04:42like he was a piece of trash.

04:43The roster has grown so much,

04:44I don't think we'll see Colin back

04:46anytime soon.

04:47But when you do go over his career,

04:49given that not everybody

04:50can be a world champion,

04:52well, ironically,

04:53we should give him a pout on the back.

04:54Number five, Crowbar.

04:56Go back and watch WCW

04:58from the year 2000s

04:59and you will realize

05:00this is an absolutely dreadful wrestling product

05:03and it's no surprise that it died.

05:05However,

05:05there were a few spotlights in the darkness,

05:09one of which was Crowbar

05:10along with Daphne

05:10who did their very best

05:11to try and be entertaining.

05:13After World Championship Wrestling was gone,

05:15Crowbar did go on to appear in TNA

05:16and some other indies for a while.

05:18So in 2021,

05:20someone from AEW thought,

05:21well, why don't we bring him in?

05:23And they did.

05:24Having a match against Joey Janela on Dark,

05:25of course he did lose,

05:27but much as he did 20 or so years ago,

05:29he came in

05:30and he just did the best job possible.

05:32We never saw him again,

05:34but if you are into wrestling trivia,

05:35especially how long somebody took a gap

05:37between major promotions,

05:39well, you should probably put Crowbar down on that list

05:41because I bet he features.

05:43Before ODB.

05:44I have watched pretty much everything

05:45that AEW has done,

05:46but even I forgot that ODP had an appearance.

05:50I mean, my word,

05:51we've done a lot in three years.

05:52Mostly known for her time in TNA,

05:54she probably would have got a gig with WWE at some point

05:57if her act hadn't been distinctly non-PG.

06:00However, because she was a recognizable name,

06:02eventually AEW gave her a shot.

06:04She entered the Casino Battle Royal

06:06all the way back in 2019,

06:08mostly because we have to have a few surprises here.

06:11It's like the Royal Rumble.

06:12Think how many times you've watched that

06:13and you don't get any shocks.

06:15You feel like a sad panda.

06:16So this was a way to make you feel like a happy bear.

06:19After a beast stare down with Nyla Rose

06:20because they're both beasts,

06:21she was able to help eliminate Awesome Kong

06:24before Britt Baker got rid of her.

06:26That was it.

06:27Draw a line under it.

06:28She was gone.

06:29Number three, Tully Blanchard.

06:30Yes, Tully Blanchard has featured in AEW a lot.

06:33He was the long-term manager of FDR

06:35before they turned face

06:36and he basically did a really, really good job.

06:39The part you may have forgotten though,

06:41because so much was happening,

06:42is that this veteran of the wrestling scene

06:45actually had a match.

06:46Forget the fact that he was 67 years old at the time.

06:49And Tully did indeed team up with his boys, Cash and Dax,

06:52in order to take on Luchasaurus, Jungle Boy, and Marco Stunt.

06:55And by the time he was doing his classic slingshot suplex

06:58onto Marco,

07:00everybody was going crazy.

07:02Amazingly, this was super entertaining too.

07:04I mean, FTR controlled everything as they always do.

07:07But in no universe

07:09should Tully Blanchard been able to perform

07:11at the level he did,

07:13it's almost like he's got some skills.

07:15Dave Meltzer, he of Wrestling Observer fame,

07:17even gave this match three and three-quarter stars,

07:20which means it's higher rated

07:21than The Rock versus Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 18.

07:25And did I put that in there

07:26in order to flame the comments?

07:28Yes, I did.

07:29Number two, Glacier.

07:30Another one I totally forgot about

07:32because I'm pretty sure I just made it up in my head.

07:35I didn't.

07:36Handing the first double or nothing

07:37in the Men's Casino Battle Royale

07:39to tie into those surprises

07:40we were talking about earlier,

07:41AEW obviously knew that their crowd

07:44was super-duper hardcore

07:45and thought,

07:46who can we bring back

07:47that will absolutely get a reaction

07:48if they pick Glacier?

07:51I mean, for one,

07:51he's become an internet meme recently

07:53because he took so damn long

07:54to actually debut way back when in WCW.

07:57But also,

07:58he is just one massive Mortal Kombat ripoff.

08:01And even in the modern day,

08:02that's just kind of cool.

08:03I mean, he did absolutely nothing in the match,

08:05but he didn't need to do anything.

08:07People just wanted to point and go,

08:09ha ha, it's Glacier.

08:11This one still pleases me.

08:13Number one, Tommy Dreamer.

08:14Glacier wasn't the only recognizable

08:16old-school face in that match either

08:18because do you want to know who else was in it?

08:21I mean, you already know,

08:22but it was Tommy Dreamer.

08:23The best part of all of this too

08:24is that the winner of this battle royal

08:25was going to go on to the next pay-per-view

08:27in order to fight for the world title,

08:29which meant Dreamer

08:31totally must have thought he could have won.

08:33This didn't happen, obviously,

08:34and his main role was to shine a spotlight

08:36on the likes of Orange Cassidy and Sonny Kiss

08:38because they were brand new performers

08:40in AEW wanted to make sure you walked away

08:42going, ha, I should think about them more.

08:44Tommy was soon gone,

08:46and obviously following controversies

08:47makes this a little less fun,

08:49but a fact is a fact,

08:50and a fact is a fact.

08:51So has Tommy Dreamer appeared in AEW?

08:54Yes.

08:55Yes, he has.

08:55No other wrestlers that we all totally forgot

08:57appeared for All Elite Wrestling.

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09:18Thank you for joining me as always.

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09:20I appreciate your time.

09:22And of course,

09:23I appreciate Glacier.

09:24See you soon.

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