For a time, it looked like Cesaro was going to be the face of Max Dupri's Maximum Male Models on WWE‘s SmackDown. It looked like the “Swiss Superman” would finally return to the company that made him a mainstream darling, and be afforded the sort of A+ talker that had largely eluded him in Vince McMahon's company.
Instead, Cesaro, now known by his previous/real name Claudio Castagnoli, returned to wrestling as Zack Sabre Jr.'s surprise opponent at AEW x NJPW's Forbidden Door, where he swung the darn thing off its hinges with a barnburner of a technical affair
Now, for WWE fans, this was a massive bummer; Cesaro was a fan favorite for his impeccable in-ring work, and debuting in AEW effectively ended any hopes that he would agree to a new contract after his previous one expired at the beginning of the year.
And yet, that wasn't the worst of it. No, on Wednesday night's edition of Dynamite, the promotion's first televised show since Forbidden Door, Cesaro took part in Blood and Guts, the promotion's answer to WarGames, and in the match, which spanned almost an hour, he already recorded his first truly signature moment on AEW television by swinging Chris Jericho on top of the steel cage.
Looks like fun @IAmJericho!!! #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/qGjCSZaECB
— AEW on TV (@AEWonTV) June 30, 2022
Goodness, that might just have been the scariest segment in a match that literally saw Sammy Guevara thrown off of the roof by Eddie Kingston mere moments earlier.
Whether you like AEW, like Cesaro in AEW, or wish he was teaming up with Max Durpri moving forward, you have to admit: You don't see sequences like that in WWE anymore.
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