by Get Rid of “The Elite Hunter”
This is truly awful. In a company so eager to honor history, this appears to be a throwback to the original Sting days in which he fought silently against the NWO. The difference however, is that Sting didn’t speak or wrestle. Frankie Kazarian is doing plenty of both and it is not working.
No one cared about Kazarian before this gimmick, and they care even less about him now. Do you hear a single fan pop when he, “saves the day”. No! The only person you hear get excited is the obnoxious announcer Excalibur because he more than likely has someone telling him in his ear to be excited. Excalibur himself needs to go, or be relegated to AEW Dark, but that is a story for a different day.
Frankie Kazarian couldn’t beat The Young Bucks when he had a tag partner in SCO with Christopher Daniels. How are we to believe he can take down the entire Elite faction with no help at all? Pro Wrestling so badly wants to be believable, but this angle just isn’t plausible.
Kazarian is nothing more than a journeyman, and I’d even go as far to call him a Tag Team specialist. If you want someone to be the face of AEW as they fight against The Elite, then you need to keep searching far past “The Elite Hunter”.
very insightful article as always!