Blackpool Combat Club Has Become The Awesome Island Of Misfit WWE Guys
Ex-WWE guys might be getting a bad rap in AEW from wrestlers like MJF and Scorpio Sky, but the Blackpool Combat Club pushes back against that as an island of misfit toys who never quite fit The Other Company's mold. Outside of Wheeler YUTA, the group is made up entirely of performers who used to wrestle in WWE in some capacity. That isn't where they all spent their entire careers, but it's certainly where they landed on the radars of more casual wrestling fans.
Jon Moxley was influential due to his time with The Shield, Bryan Danielson, like Moxley, is a former World Champion for the company, while Claudio Castagnoli never was given the chance to take the ball and run with it. Binding these men together is William Regal, who has spoken at length about how he was never able to fulfill his potential with WWE.
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That makes Blackpool Combat Club even more likable. Especially to an AEW audience that is largely comprised of lapsed WWE fans who sought out a different, more professional wrestling-focused product with All Elite Wrestling. While WWE is big on the sports entertainment side of things, AEW has always tried to follow more closely to the tracks that the likes of NJPW and ROH have stamped out over the last several years in North America. There is a focus on long-term storytelling, and the audience is treated like adults who can remember things that happened on television two weeks ago without being reminded three times by commentators, followed by a video package and one more reminder after.
There's no denying that Blackpool Combat Club owes a lot of its star power to WWE, as that's where these men largely grew to prominence. That shouldn't mean that they
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