>>17743555theory 100% has potential. and HHH is a sensitive smark, so he'll read the IWC shitting on him for his handling of theory and probably eventually give him an IC run or something, but as it stands, if theory wants to rise significantly above his current station, he needs to leave the company and reinvent himself. he will never be a world champion in WWE, let alone a consistent main event player, let alone "the guy" like vince wanted, as things stand. it's just not going to happen on the route currently being taken. him being "the guy" is probably off the table entirely now.
i don't think that he should go to AEW. he would get lost in the shuffle there. i think he should go to japan and try to be the top gaijin in noah or nooj. i mean shit if gabe kidd is about to get plucked by tony, might as well. that's an opening. no better time than now. theory is already a really good worker, he could hang.
then later after winning over the smarks, he could return to WWE and be a main event player.