>>14253988Why do people keep pretending that WWE not getting Will Ospreay and Okada was a "fumble"? These two never really wrestled in front of western audiences so no one knows about them here and AEW's ratings are proof that they will not draw a dime. Will Ospreay is literally Ricochet (never drew a dime and his wrestling style isn't a draw) 2.0 except he has a modicum of charisma and before AEW the last time Okada wrestled for a western promotion he was the fucking Hamburglar. I could see WWE maybe adapting Will to the WWE style and teaching him a thing or two about promos but at the end of the day they have the exact same guy they'd get at the end of that project and his name is Logan Paul except Logan has drawpower thanks to the millions of normies who love him. Okada probably has a higher ceiling but to my knowledge he doesn't speak Engrish and doesn't have nowhere near the amount of physical charisma that another non Engrish speaker like Nakamura has and look how far Shinsuke has gotten. On top of that, he's 36 so there's not that much time to help him develop.
AJ Styles is the best example for these indie fan favorites. If Styles, as someone who had wrestled in TNA for a long while, was one of their top stars and was known to western audiences already, wasn't a needle mover 7-8 years ago, then there is absolutely no way in hell any of these guys will be needle movers either.
