Miro
Criticism that AEW can’t create characters ignores how repeatedly WWE has been happy to borrow from what worked in the land of the Elite. From Shawn Spears’s love of chairs to Cody Rhodes and Jade Cargill’s presentation, the copy-and-paste job of Rusev’s current guise is glaring.
Both verbiage and strong presentation borrow heavily from his time as The Redeemer. His first promos, where the former Russian sympathiser promised pain and misery, were done in the same style as those that used to air on Dynamite and Collision. Retrospectively, Miro’s failures seem linked to his decisions as much as AEW creative.
If The Bulgarian Brute can equal his performance as God’s Favourite Champion, both performer and company should thank AEW for being the ground zero for the character.
