Real Reason AEW Talent Removed From Major Storyline

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The real reason Brandon Cutler wasn’t seen much during the Elite’s AEW feud with the Blackpool Combat Club culminating at Blood & Guts has been revealed.

With his role as a stooge for The Elite, Cutler spoke to Comedy Store Wrestling about his lack of involvement in the match that took place on July 19, 2023, and many of the angles that led up to it.

Both Cutler and Michael Nakazawa had been taken out in April on AEW Dynamite, with Cutler revealing that it was all his idea, saying:

“In all honesty, that was an idea I had for that angle (Cutler referring to BCC taking he & Michael Nakazawa out), being that there is 10 people in the angle (BCC vs The Elite) where it’s (a) five-on-five team that they were building for this Blood & Guts that had just happened this past week and so early in that angle, it was kind of apparent that I was like, every time they do these little brawls or something or, these guys will be here after a match and they’ll come in and jump and I was always standing outside of the ring with a camera and I’m like, should I get hit?

“Or should I fight at all? Or should I just stand there and record this and after a couple of those, I was like, yeah, maybe me and Nak should get taken out for this angle and so I threw that idea out there to the wind, to everybody that I was like, hey, what if how BBC — I’ve constantly called them BBC. (he laughed). BCC. It’s unnatural for me to say BCC.“

Cutler would go on to explain how he went about suggesting the ways in which he and Nakazawa could be removed to give the five-on-five that was needed, stating:

“But yeah, after a couple of those times, I was like, ‘Hey! You guys, since you’re kind of taking everybody out –’ they did Hangman (Adam Page) with the screwdriver and Don (Callis), clubbed him and they ended up getting a nice gash on his head. I was like, ‘What if you guys kind of do that to me and Nak? But it’s a little more gruesome and then it takes us out for the rest of the angle so then we don’t have to have 12 or 13 or 14-ish because Don and now you got (Konosuke) Takeshita and all these others are kind of coming in.

“Then I’m like, ‘What if it wipes us out and then you guys can have your angle?’ That it’s already 10 people deep, that it’s already so many chefs in the kitchen. So I was like, ‘Yeah, and then we can peace out for the rest of this thing, once they do that,’ and everyone kind of bit on it and then it became, for the day that I pitched it, it became how brutally can they beat us up?

“It was a lot of ideas thrown out of, ‘Ohhhhhh, what if we had you guys locked up in a place backstage and then we drag you out into the ring?’ There was a lot of different ideas of how they can brutalize us and then that was kind of (what) the end result ended up being is what you guys saw.”

Having played his part as a stooge to The Elite, Cutler would also reveal what he knows about future plans with the group, concluding:

“I don’t know honestly (when I’ll be coming out with The Young Bucks again). That’s some of the beauty of wrestling is (you) don’t know until some of the days you get there and then it is you get there thinking you have nothing and then it’s like, oh no, you’re gonna do this now this week. ‘Huh!? What!? Okay.’”

He would, however, look at his position on the roster and whether it there was an opportunity to take on a more serious role, saying:

“I think there is that part of me where I could do something with the dragon or something again. Do a serious wrestler-type or just do something completely new, you know, haven’t even thought of but there is something, I think, to the comedic, to the stooge at the moment because when I look at the roster of AEW, there’s dozens of great wrestlers.

“Okay, he’s a great wrestler, he’s a great technical wrestler, he’s a great high flier, he’s great on the mic, this guy’s great at this, this guy’s great at this but it’s like, how many people are the funny guy? You got Orange Cassidy, right (Danhausen too) and the list stops.

“If you think of great wrestlers, it’s stacked and especially in a company like this of, okay, you wanna be a great high flier? You got (El Hijo del) Vikingo and (Rey) Fénix and PAC and you got Komander. You got so many and they’re top-level so you can’t just be like, oh, I can do a good ‘rana, or something. It’s like, no, the game’s elevated now. You can’t just be kind of good or good enough. You need to be top shelf of whatever category you’re going for.

“So there’s that of, yeah, I’m a good wrestler, but am I the best of what class I’m doing? And I’m like, in comedy, I believe I am. I think I could be top shelf, one of the comedy guys. So I’m like, I’ll go for that. I don’t mind that.”

Brandon Cutler signed an AEW contract in May 2019 on Being The Elite and made his debut at Double or Nothing in that year as part of the 21-man Battle Royale.

He would be involved in a feud with Peter Avalon for much of 2020 in a program that would see both men trying to get their first win in AEW.

In October 2020, Cutler defeated Avalon on AEW Dark, leading to an eight-match winning streak that would end with Luchasaurus in January 2021, although he would get a shot at AEW gold losing to Brian Cage for the FTW Championship in March of that year.

Transcript from POST Wrestling.

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