![]() Tegan Nox has flown completely under the radar since returning to WWE in December and has had her talents criminally wasted in the process. Strickland has the potential to be competing for the AEW World Championship by this time next year with the proper push and shouldn't be stuck in the same storyline forever. ![]() He has a great thing going as the leader of The Mogul Embassy but isn't on television nearly enough for fans to know that. The AEW TNT title has proved to be more of a curse than anything, so perhaps a run as international champion could be in his future. The best thing AEW can do with Strickland at this point is to blow off their rivalry so he can move on to bigger and better things, namely championship gold. He and Lee still find themselves at odds for some reason, for weeks on Rampage. But that was nearly six months ago, and AEW has had nothing of note for him to do since then. His team with Keith Lee last summer was better than it had any right to be, and his subsequent heel turn was excellently executed. However, the fact that the former Team Taz member was among those featured on the newly released poster for the premiere of AEW Collision appears to indicate he'll have a more important role on that show than he has had on Dynamite up to this point.įor someone who didn't make much of a splash immediately upon arriving in AEW in March 2022, Swerve Strickland has exceeded all expectations and then some. It's time for a hard reset with Hobbs to get him back on the right track toward superstardom. His alliance with QT Marshall has been far more of a hindrance than a help as he has barely been seen since losing the title. ![]() Unfortunately, his reign was a complete afterthought and was ended rather abruptly by Wardlow. Hobbs was again directionless until winning the Face of the Revolution ladder match in early March followed by the TNT title itself a week later. The 32-year-old largely disappeared from AEW programming following his feud with Ricky Starks last summer before resurfacing briefly in the TNT Championship picture at the end of the year. There's no excuse for how poorly booked Powerhouse Hobbs has been since breaking out on his own just under a year ago. He deserves a spotlight of his own, specifically a run with one of the two midcard championships. Woods is not only exceptionally skilled in the ring, but he can also talk and connect with the crowd like few others on the active roster. He took Gunther to the limit and has had back-to-back matches on Raw with Dominik Mysterio, but it's clear he's in a holding pattern until at least one of his New Day partners is cleared to compete. Winning King of the Ring in 2021 seemed to indicate a singles push was in the works, but the character was cut short upon his return from injury a few months later.īig E and Kofi Kingston being sidelined with injuries of their own right now should force WWE to do more with Woods, who is incredibly over with the audience. Otherwise, Woods has been relegated to the tag team ranks for a majority of his run. In the decade he has spent on the main roster, he has challenged for singles gold only twice: once in a John Cena United States Championship open challenge in 2015 and against Gunther for the Intercontinental Championship in April. The New Day will go down as one of the greatest groups in WWE history for their long list of accolades alone, but Xavier Woods is still criminally underrated as a singles star. The following names find themselves in a similar spot and should be the next recipients of some creative attention. Xavier Woods is a prime example of someone who would benefit from more direction after floundering for so long. The same can be said about AEW Collision, which is expected to be treated with the same level of importance as Dynamite. The recent WWE draft should give several Superstars the chance to start anew. There is an ample amount of television time to go around between Raw, SmackDown, Dynamite, Rampage and now Collision, and thus it's entirely possible for more people to be better showcased. However, that isn't to say both companies can't do a better job of utilizing those they have available. Not everyone can be prominently featured, so certain stars getting lost in the shuffle is an unavoidable issue. Credit: WWE.comĮven with the talent depth WWE and All Elite Wrestling currently boast, more and more names continue to be added to the ever-expanding rosters. Xavier Wood and LA Knight are among a handful of underutilized talents in WWE and AEW right now.
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