The Worst AEW Debuts Of All Time 

Man Matt Sydel had the worst debut ever has the shooting star botch happened, but it didn’t hurt his career. He still continues to be a great top guy at the indies.

The problem with AEW is they expect its viewers to be savvy and read the dirt sheets and follows wrestling news. Never once have the announcers explained who these new wrestlers are or give any backstory tobthe casual audience. They just expect the audience to know.

AEW when a new wrestling fan doesn't know about a guy who only wrestled 3 TNA matches in 2014:😲😲😲😲😲

I think the problem with some AEW debuts is that where WWE tend to have the commentators say it’s that guy he was a champion in Japan or wherever Where as the AEW commentators say nothing because I think they have the idea that their audience is more smart fans but it isn’t the case all of the time

The major problem with aew is that tony signs all these goof indie guys that unless you are deep in the indie scene, you have absolutely no clue who these people are and he acts like they are a big deal.

Starting out AEW was just throwing out debut after debut and most of them only worked if you were a big indy fan. I popped for Butcher and Blade but most people didn't know them. For someone like Luther there should have been promos and maybe backstage shenanigans to set up his debut. The one thing that killed the Minions in Dark Order was the night they attacked Dustin and one minion held back his punches too much and it was caught on camera.

I cringed so hard when Brandi showed up and started rasslin

Allie in AEW is possibly one of the most wasted potential. So over in Impact it was insane. Impact wasn't even on basic TV but Allie was a household name damn near. She gets to AEW and has a great showing in the beginning but is thrown into the faction with Butcher & The Blade and now it's all she is.

Jade Cargill, she looked amazing but that promo and Cornette/Brian ripping it apart is a real go-to laugh-fest

Excalibur really went over the top for Luther's debut. "He's a legend in Japan!!" then quickly got nuked on Twitter when they did their homework on him (Luthor)

allie is such a star it’s such a shame how they’re using her

It's funny how when AEW first started, I was happy that there was a alternative to WWE & I was able to see some of the guys I've never seen before in action e.g. Jungle Boy & Hikaru Shida, but as time went on & soon WWE had done those mass releases, it felt like Tony was more interested in signing ex-WWE guys than those from the indies & the more people Tony signed, the more people would get pushed aside & either was working the Dark/Elevation shows or only come back for a odd show. There's guys that's on the AEW roster that I sometimes forget are still signed to AEW as well.

1:55 I’ve heard of “falling flat”, but this is more painful than usual.

Michael Nakazawa before the show put lotion on the turnbuckle.

R.I.P. Iron Sheik 🙏 🇮🇷

Satnam Singh should be on this list

Dark order debut would've been great if there was some build up. That chair of creepers was pretty kool.

I do love how the Dark Order showed that even if your debut isn’t great, there’s still hope that you can build a strong fanbase and get great stories.

You forgot to include Satnam Singh. That debut when the lights came back on was a huge letdown.

I didn't even know even Bourne was still a wrestler until yesterday 😮‍💨 I miss team airboom

Cool video as always Tom 💯

I think the Nightmare collective also ended due to Kong being unable to wrestle anymore due to her cumulative back injuries ...a story that they had actually used while she was on GLOW ...And Luther I admit looked like a shaved Gangrel

Matt Sydal always looks like his face is photoshopped in.

First time I seen Luther i thought it was Gangel

I honestly lost my shite when I first saw Sydal debut. I still loved him AND his brother, that was a tag team I seriously enjoyed. Luther was and is super underatted in AEW, but man do I enjoy watching him wrestle and scream at everyone 😂😂😂

Matt Sydal slipped because there was still baby oil on that area from the stupid stuff Michael Nakazawa did a few minutes before.

These videos are the best love them.

Honestly I knew Ally was the bunny it was nickname given to her by Rose Mary

None of these got the full Tito Ortiz treatment though.

I love Allie (aka The Bunny). However, just like Torrie Wilson, Allie is better as a beautiful valet.

im so sad that matt sydal isnt featured more.

I love Allie. But The Butcher, The Blade, and The Bunny was just a strange debut and a waste of a stable as they were just more villains for Cody to slay.

Man, could you talk about one of the most infamous wrestlers of all: mr matsunaga, he was burned, played in Piranhas, fought in fmw, was the first bjw star, master of jun kasai and nowadays There's a family restaurant in Japan

I was at the episode where Butcher and the Blade and everyone was like ??? ...they should have done some promos or something to build them up

I am a huge Matt Sydal fan, from his times in GCW, to WSX, to ROH, to WWE, so I was so pumped to see him in AEW finally as I love AEW as well. Then the botch happened...

Luther is a GOAT? By who’s standards?

I liked the Nightmare Collective!

You were being sarcastic when you said you enjoyed Luther, right?

Honestly I see a lot of people say that AEW has gotten worse compared to before but I completely disagree and some of the things in this video are reasons for that. Almost every single Dynamite feels big in its own way but I think the last 6 months to a year it has become was more consistent and has gained a lot more depth in the cards they put on. Having O.C Vs Swerve, Jay White and Ricky along with a phenomenal segment Involving the world champion, you can’t tell me old Dynamites had that level of continuity. I do think all around though the hate that AEW gets is honestly just a meme at this point and I truly enjoy a Marjority of the times I watch even if there is some things I don’t have as much interest in.

sabus was pointless immediately botched through a table at the ppv

NOTHING WAS WORSE THAN LEO RUSH

Epic review

Nightmare collective is still the worst thing to ever happen in AEW. I truly believe that I personally had a hand in that storyline ending. I berated them so badly that Brandi Rhodes herself got in a comment war with me (I still have screenshots from instagram from the post!!!!) and literally that was it. They were gone like 2 weeks later. Youre welcome!

One of the issues that AEW has is that they don't know how to push talent properly past their debut. The butcher and the blade should have been a dominate tag team for 6 months to a year before taking a loss. They have the look to be great heels and to hold gold while doing so. They seem to do well as a team, which makes me believe there was either an injury or backstage politics happening that turned them into mid card jobbers. On debut, Malakai had a really good push only to become a benchwarmer or a jobber later and never secured singles gold. In wrestling they used to reward those that the crowd liked, every appearance I saw the crowd was behind Malakai and really liked how the character came across. The House of Black as a whole finally acquired some gold after Malakai took a break from wrestling, basically the man considered quitting. I believe they lost it within a short time. This probably left him wondering why he even bothered to come back. AEW should pay attention to who the fans get behind. Maybe part of the issue is that there are active wrestlers on the board. PS: CM Punk should have been suspended for what he said at the after match, and if he threw the first punch then he should have been fired. I am really surprised that it wasn't considered some sort of breach of contract.

I love the Bunny She deserves more

To me one of the worst debut's is Orange Cassidy he's garbage

Special mention to Satnam Singh absolutely ruining the "lights go out and a surprise person is in the ring when the lights come back on" trope

AEW: where you debut and never get pushed. Ever. Seriously, who have they pushed? Miro? No. Black? No. Bandido? Nope.

Matt Sydal slipping was just sad. I felt so bad for that man. My wife called him Matt Slydal after seeing it. Allie as the bunny was just cringey. That stupid head tilt thing she did was so dumb. As for Butcher and Blade they could have had something going there. They both had a good look to them imo. Especially The Butcher. Unfortunately I know Blade was a botch magnet and Butcher has a soft voice. They needed a mouthpiece and I guess Bunny wasn't going to be it. She was just there doing nothing while those two got their asses whipped. And I'm not sure if you actually like Luther or if that was Sarcasm but I wont even touch that one. That dude was just terrible. Nobody cared to see him because nobody even knew who he was. I remember looking him up and all I could find was some old video of him fighting Sabu at a high school gymnasium.

Tyrus vs tyrus squash match oh mannn I can't wait

I don't watch aew but was there a time when a bunch of pro-fighters debuted and then got shitcanned shortly after?

AEW has a lot and i mean A LOT of bad debut due to the fact it's all so random and storyline less. I think the worst debut gotta be Johnny Elite as the joker, not only he got beat up by Samoa Joe but in his second match he got squash by Miro like a jobber in WWE again.

One of my favorite flop debuts was Warhorse. My man shows up with a bunch of ads and hype, commercials, social media posts, he has an awesome match with Cody, Cody wins... and here comes the Dark Order to ruin everything. Warhorse shoves Cody out of the way to save him and fights the ENTIRE Dark Order BY HIMSELF... and then Matt Cardona shows up, wipes out the entire Dark Order on his own to hype up the one PPV match he had in AEW. And Warhorse wasn't mentioned, Excalibur didn't even acknowledge him once the 3 count happened, he disappeared from camera the second Matt Cardona showed up. They did the dude dirty.

Good vid

Surprised you didn’t include Satnam Singh who became the reason why AEW stopped doing the Top moment of the week thumbnails because they for some reason thought that would be number 1

Jake Altas had a pretty terrible debut. He had one squash match in Daly Place on an episode of Dark and then suffered a knee injury during a match with Adam Cole. He had to take time off to recover but then he was charged with domestic violence. A waste of a debut.

HUGE DEBUT, BIG FUSS MADE never seen again...

AEW did The Bunny dirty 😢

For a bunch of smart wraslin fans surprised they don’t know who they are

"Luther is a GOAT" is something I dont think anyone has ever said before

What was Wrong with these wrestlers aew debut?😢

I never seen any of these bad debuts in impact wrestling

I would like to see Matt Sydal as Evan Bourne again

Tyrus ain't my favorite wrestler gtfo with that noise

These debuts were SO BAD! You are so right about [topic]

I'm gutted as I thought aew was going to be an alternative it is a JOKE END OF.There is talent BUT it has and will push rubbish like cuckbuck boys awkward omega and any chris Jericho idea.Wardlow, hobbs ,starks, bulgarian brut ,mjf ,that juice bloke, hook ,cesaro,danielson to name a few but so badly used

Tyrus would never be able to beat my favorite wrestler in a squash match cause ain't nobody squashing the Tribal Chief

Yay geowizard ost!!!

Give the butcher n blade some slack there running a butchers n u knw they hours are crazy lol😂😂

I reallylike but her and the blade but for me that debut felt so flat and forced..given how much I like them compared to their debut they are possibly 1of my least favourite debuts

It's very obvious a lot barely listen to commentary lol AEW literally explain every debut as it's happening. As someone who literally never heard of most these people as I only knew WWE growing up, I had no issues with anyone's debut information wise. Def would've helped a few if they did promos/video packages before they show up. Like how WWE use to do for some new/repackaged people. Y2J is a prime example. And just sucks they were brand new so debuts were gonna be a thing for a while till the roster was fleshed out some. So understandable how some didn't get more thought put into them. Clearly they weren't sure how long this thing would last. Now they know they're good so I'm hoping the future new people get better care taken of their debuts.

Dark order,butcher and the blade,Brandi Rhodes group we're all way to similar that's why they ended to be awful

My god we don't need there life story just tell us how the debuted

No room for Satnam Singh?

The best thing Brandi Rhodes was involved in was the Dark Order beat down of her husband. I really think the fans turned on Cody because of Brandi. She's a lovely person I'm sure,but please keep her off the television screen. WWE did it right by keeping her off screen. AEW wanted a power couple so bad that they tried to push Brandi as a Stephani McMahon character. They just did it one hundred percent worse and in the process turned their biggest Babyface into their biggest HEEL. Which ironically Brandi was promoting some garbage called HEELS for the strong women fans of AEW. An exclusive group where female fans could pay to join to feel empowered. Because AEW is so inclusive ya know? Must have done very well. Anybody know anybody that was enrolled?

The fact that aew will have to go 20 more years to be on the level of tna / impact wrestling who would and most likely could be still going roh is owned by tk and is bigger than his baby aew ffs 😂😅

ALL Ex WWE

I feel like being the elite has done more for dark order than tony Khans booking lol

Matt Sydal one wasn't that bad to be honest i think people blew that one out of proportion as that fall actually made him one of the most well remember AEW debuts of all time... Was he going to hurt himself yes but he actually did manage to survive the flip...

Satnam Singh

Yeah🔥❤️

Butcher and Blade have had a horrible run so far and Luther is the goat? C'mon now.

I believed Matt was death then I believed he was a paraplegic it was sick

AEW itself is the worst debut of all time this company ruined the wrestling industry

Brandi 😍😋

Allie is arguably the most unpretty female of all time