Tony Khan is fickle. He is a wrestling fan first, wrestling booker second, and to illustrate this, you need only cast your minds back to October 2023, when Khan rashly booked Mistico for a Rampage transmission. He did so with the same hasty impulsivity as any aspiring wrestling promoter would do when filling out a virtual TEW card with whatever free agents happened to be in the area.
Sylvain Grenier's in town? Yes. Will he pop a positive rating? No. Should he be booked anyway on the notion that he was once in WWE? Absolutely.
Mistico will be better known to the casual fanbase as the original Sin Cara of WWE infamy. Laughably flopping when he failed to enter the ring of his own volition, the Sin Cara gimmick was dead on arrival - but he was a hit in Mexico's CMLL, which is what Tony Khan remembers him for and, supposedly, what Tony Khan believed everyone remembered him for. So he was booked on Rampage.
Against Rocky Romero. 2,100 additional tickets were sold following the announcement of Mistico's involvement in AEW, rendering Tony Khan's seemingly spontaneous decision effective, albeit random - but this same effectiveness doesn't always apply to AEW's one-night wonders..
. 10. Rico Constantino The AEW pay-per-view pre-show means nothing.
It doesn't increase pay-per-view buys. Nobody is spending the frankly ludicrous amount of their hard-earned dosh on AEW All In because Kip Sabian and Anthony Ogogo have been sent out for a cheap hometown pop. Instead, the typically gargantuan .
