Tony Khan recently took part in a conference call to promote AEW’s special Winter Is Coming episode of Dynamite, and when taking questions from reporters, he was asked about the signing of Miro. Some fans and critics have questioned AEW’s use of the former Rusev, thinking he should have been immediately positioned as a main eventer. Khan would explain that AEW is currently rebuilding Miro as WWE hadn’t treated him as a star in years. He’d explicitly note that the wrestler who entered in a tank at WrestleMania wasn’t the performer he had signed.
I thought he got beaten down so bad, I saw some jackass on Twitter was like, “This guy drove a tank at WrestleMania, and now he’s doing this,” and I was like, “yeah, then he got kicked in the nuts, and they treated him like sh*t for years.” He drove a tank out five years ago; that’s not the guy I signed. The guy I signed has been abused for years, and he’s being rebuilt, he’s going to be a huge star in wrestling, and he is a huge star, he’s a huge name in wrestling, but he wasn’t treated like it for a long time.”Tony Khan
Despite initially being portrayed as a top guy, he was moved down the card following his program with Cena. The low point of his time in WWE came when he was booked in an angle with Lashley that saw his wife Lana leave him. Despite being the babyface seeking revenge, he would continuously lose and be made to look impotent. Miro went along with the storyline because he was initially told he would main event WrestleMania 36, which obviously never happened. In fact, Miro didn’t even appear on the show and was released a few weeks after it took place.
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