This weekend, All Elite Wrestling presents Full Gear, the ultimate PPV of the 12 months and the primary since CM Punk went on a tangent concerning the AEW locker room. The cardboard is loaded with a ton of marquee matchups. However most significantly, for us avid gamers, we’ve been promised some long-awaited AEW Combat Eternally information. I’m nonetheless excited, even when it isn’t the information avid gamers wished when there have been rumors of Combat Eternally heading to Xbox Gamepass a couple of weeks in the past.
However, with all this speak about Combat Eternally and the inevitable launch, one factor has continued to stay out like a sore thumb over the past a number of weeks, and it’s former AEW Champion CM Punk nonetheless being entrance and middle on the sport’s cowl. I even used my mediocre Photoshop abilities to change the duvet as a result of I couldn’t cease interested by it. However significantly, with Punk greater than seemingly gone, who would be the subsequent ‘featured’ cowl wrestler on AEW Combat Eternally?
Listed below are 5 wrestlers I feel belong — entrance and middle — on the duvet of AEW Combat Eternally
Who Ought to Be On The AEW Combat Eternally Cowl?
Bryan Danielson
Arguably the very best wrestler on this planet, Bryan Danielson has accomplished all of it, besides he has but to be featured on the duvet of a wrestling online game. (He was on the within of WWE 2K14’s cowl, however that doesn’t rely.) This could possibly be his probability. In 2022, Danielson has been purple sizzling, placing on five-star matches with a few of AEW’s up-and-coming stars. His current matches with Sammy Guevara and Daniel Garcia have been epic. And who might overlook his battles with Hangman Adam Web page? That first match that went to a draw was match of the 12 months worthy.
So sure, with Punk out of the image, Danielson deserves his flowers. He’s additionally the person behind the “Sure Motion,” so followers all over the place would acknowledge the bearded head kicker. Putting him entrance and middle could possibly be the best way to go. Then once more, there are rumors the American Dragon doesn’t even need the belt. If true, he’d by no means need to be pinned on the duvet of a wrestling online game.
“Hangman” Adam Web page
For a lot of All Elite Wrestling’s lifetime, Hangman Adam Web page has been on the forefront of a lot of the firm’s huge storylines. His story with Kenny Omega, from Tag Staff Champions to bitter enemies to ultimately Web page turning into World Champion, is nearly as good as something I can keep in mind in wrestling. From there, he placed on one banger after one other. He teamed with the Darkish Order and managed to assist them stick with it past Brodie Lee’s loss of life (RIP).
He had epic title defenses in opposition to Bryan Danielson, Lance Archer in a Loss of life Match, Adam Cole, after which, in fact, CM Punk and Jon Moxley. He’s placed on one big-time match after one other. And from a pure expertise standpoint, he is perhaps, pound-for-pound, AEW’s finest wrestler. For this reason if we’re going to sit down right here and debate about which of those guys is most deserving, it’s exhausting to argue in opposition to the Anxious Millennial Cowboy, Adam Web page.
The Younger Bucks
This began out with me gushing over the Younger Bucks, after which proper earlier than I wrote the road about how “they’re the very best tag crew on this planet,” I used to be reminded of FTR. The reality is, it hasn’t been The Bucks who’ve dominated professional wrestling over the past 12 months. No, it has been FTR who has received gold in Japan, Mexico, Ring of Honor, and naturally, AEW. However, these two tag groups are neck and neck on the high of my checklist of favourite tag groups.
Deciding which duo is extra worthy of the duvet is above my pay grade. Nevertheless, it was rumored that FTR wouldn’t even be a part of the unique Combat Eternally roster. If true, it might definitely be exhausting for them to be on Combat Eternally’s cowl. However, with five-star FTR out of the image, there’s just one tag crew worthy. I’m right here to see the long-haired brothers from Rancho Cucamonga, California, flexing with tens of millions of Younger Bucks {dollars} falling from the heavens on the duvet. Now that might be too candy.
Adam Cole Bay-Bay
Adam Cole has not been round a lot these days in AEW because of harm. However that received’t cease me from pleading with AEW to place the person they name ‘Chugs’ on the duvet of Combat Eternally. Cole will not be solely a gamer who usually streams on Twitch, however he’s one of many higher wrestlers within the sport in the present day. He has traveled everywhere in the world and has placed on one big-time match after one other.
Positive, his reunion with reDRagon didn’t go as deliberate, however when he comes again I absolutely count on Cole to be again within the title hunt. He, like Danielson, can also be a well-recognized face that many keep in mind from his time in different promotions. He’d be a pure match.
Maxwell Jacob Friedman
Relying on whenever you’re studying this, there’s a great probability MJF is the brand new AEW World Champion after defeating Jon Moxley at Full Gear. Then once more, perhaps I obtained swerved. However, if there’s one individual in AEW that has redefined wrestling and confirmed to be a real once-in-a-generation expertise worthy of being entrance and middle on a online game cowl, it’s the satan himself, Maxwell Jacob Friedman.
MJF has confirmed to be the very best on the mic and has backed it up repeatedly within the ring. He’s unbelievable. Whether or not it was parading round with Chris Jericho throughout their time collectively, his dominant stint with The Pinnacle, his feud with Punk, or his epic story with Wardlow, all the pieces he touches turns to gold. For this reason I consider MJF is the right individual to supplant CM Punk on the duvet.
Bonus: Colt Cabana
If you happen to’re a mark like me, then you already know the meat between Colt Cabana and CM Punk is actual, which is why it might be so becoming for Cabana to get the final snort. All of us heard the pop he obtained the opposite week vs. Jericho of their Ring of Honor Championship match. In fact, it received’t occur, however this is able to be hilarious. In any case, revenge is a dish finest served chilly.
Who do you assume ought to substitute CM Punk on the AEW Combat Eternally cowl? Tell us within the feedback part under!
