Brandon Cutler has big hopes for his career with AEW. He recognized early on that everyone needs a gimmick and he needed to think outside of the box in order to be successful.

In pro wrestling, it's easy to blend into the crowd. Especially when you're ‘just a bald, white guy.' Brandon Cutler realized that the face mask gimmick was an excellent opportunity for him to be different in AEW.

“I think it was the second or third week that I was wearing it,” Brandon Cutler said on AEW Unrestricted. “I would see pictures of myself in it and say, ‘Well this is the look.' Just being a bald white guy, it’s so default. There’s nothing to it. In wrestling, you have to have something else to make you look a little more like a star. That’s why I started doing face paint when I was the Dragon guy because it was kind of boring when I had nothing. When I switched over to the stooge, the face mask became like, ‘Well now that’s my face.’ I’m well past healed with the injury. It only took like three or four weeks to get cleared from it. I still get people asking me if I’m still injured. They say, ‘How long does it take to get your face healed?’ I’m like, ‘It’s been healed. This is just my face now. This is what my face looks like.’”

Brandon Cutler has been working with excellent people in AEW as he has been training with The Young Bucks. The opportunity came organically as everyone was working together before even realizing it.

“It was Matt and my brother. We used to do the good old backyard wrestling, so we all did it a lot, but they actually went to a place and got trained. Then they would come back to the backyard and train the rest of us that were around as we were all doing it. It was a combination of that and then we would all take a lot of indie bookings together. Before those shows, we would use the ring time a lot as well. After a little while, they bought an actual ring which they would run their HRW shows with. It was almost every Saturday they would run the training for other people they would book, and then I would just do it with them.”