>>21149280
He has always been a boring Swiss faggot
Where are all those fags crying about him being wasted in WWE, now that he's in the same position in aew?

He gets and keeps jobs because of the things you mentioned. He was never going to be a top of the card guy, but he is a solid midcarder, no drama, good worker that can you can easily book against a top of the card guy. The match will be decent, he can make them look strong, and you don't have to worry about him fucking shit up. Every promotion needs guys like him.

>>21149280
Tony could literactually circumvent the 1 missing thing for him by booking him as not a subordinate with some frequency of weekly solo matches but it's Tony
let alone doing the fun hammy precoof dynamite angles that could give him a character for free
or even run back the neutral swissman gimmick seriously this fumble is grating and hurts the business across companies

>>21149280
>Charisma/Aura or the X Factor
The current AEW champion does not have those things either

>>21149335
He has stars of david though. Get fucked

>>21149280
Lmao I had similar thoughts. "Damn, he still can't promo"

>>21149280
You could put him in the same type of role as Gunther without much issue. Vince didn't like that sort of character and he wasn't a Triple Paul project so he never got that booking. Don't know why Tony hasn't had him on top when Adam Page, Swerve, Darby and Ospreay have been champions and Claudio is better than all of those.

>>21149280
He's wasted as a heel. He's incredibly likeable and he doesn't play the mean guy shtick well at all. You'd think Tony would have learned this from however many years WWE mistakenly did the same but I guess not

>>21149341
He still can’t promo because he’s been on easy street his whole life. I was cooked pig back in the summer of 24 and it forced me to make changes and 2 years later I can promo with the best of them irl situations. I still only make minimum wage but I’m not a lame duck throughout my days anymore.

the most over he ever was was in like 2008 I remember the "HEY!" gimmick being very dimes

>>21149335
That's why it's weird when Cornette says Will and Darby have charisma. No wonder he went out of business and fired from booking

>>21149423
IDGAF about Cornette, but Will and Darby do have bigger characters than Claudio "I never emote, but wrestle good" Castagnoli. He doesn't even have one single memorable line or moment.

>>21149371
Tony and Paul both didnt see him during this time because no joke dead serious they were BOTH GLUED to bullet club new japans every move. you can see it in how the both try and FAIL to emulate le gedo long term booking which i dont blame them but sheesh swing and miss, maybe let the nips handle that and either quit or be like old roh and compliment them and at least DONT decimate their western expansion oops too late. Also see Tripeletty's signings and Tiny shoot making a promotion for The Elite as proof.
Swinging back to the thread topic closing point is the above in theory could have been fine with non retarded egomaniacs but the stateside king of prowrestling was lost in the excitement for who could have been his challengers in 6 star matches

>>21149452
Sure he does, these 4 ropes

>>21149280
It's funny how WWE finally started pushing him then he left and went to job out in aew

>>21149328
to be honest right now Tony is booking Mark Davis the way Claudio should've been booked for years

>>21149452
even when that last statement seems a conclusion, despite him putting his own foot in his mouth constantly; cesarooni still pumps out the kino not even trying on accident he is that naturally talented:
brass ring club
cesaro section
suit rip
spy entance
beach ball slayer
knuckle gun taunt
neck crack into elite, unique finisher
thigh tape is.... something
le medic ambulance theme
le dictator operetta theme
le foreign euro bars first theme
partial bald and no cope beard distinguished expatriot look
height and mass way above his peers
saved mohawk sheamus, tyson kidd, ambrose, cena, kassius ohno, and somehow daniel garcia''s careers
hasnt even been to japan /yet as separated from the paki vortex so doesnt count/

>>21149478
I wonder why fans stopped crying about him never being pushed to the moon once he went to AEW (where he's been a midcarder at for years now)

>>21149280
He's basically the wrestling equivalent of those people who seem perfect but have no sex appeal whatsoever.
It's something looksmaxxers fundamentally misunderstand about human attraction.

>>21149423
Darby actually does have some "X factor" but I think his size holds him back. Ospreay is just some troglodyte-lookin' Brit.

>>21149500
hmmmmmm this is onto something
except maybe higher up the card to utilize his Fed recognition back when tony supposedly had making an episodic show appealing in mind versus getting lost in the sauce on booking purely on paper
it hurts to think about and this is because it could all change tomorrow and wont because "he" is a billionaires son who was afraid for his life

>>21149527
because they were waiting on this /thread/

>>21149335
>The current AEW champion does not have those things either
it is exactly what set him apart from the million other flippy guys during his ascent and now. its not a coincidence why ospreay is where he is while his contemporaries are where they are

>>21149500
tony con removes himself from public life, splits his inheritance up between all the main indys, dissolves aew converting all assets over to the original roh team, and works tirelessly to get cmll a national tv presence to fill the lucha underground gap but now in the world of streaming outside of latin am then we could get the claudio title reign on in front of casuals unless that 3way with hechicero has happened already and he lost it

>>21149587
>it is exactly what set him apart from the million other flippy guys during his ascent and now.
No it's literally just memestars, ospreay sucks and a shitter like buddy could work his matches spot for spot

>>21149633
Hi Buddy

He needs a Jimmy hart.

>>21149280
How has nobody been able to pen one good storyline for this guy in 20 years of wrestling? Paul Heyman got 911 and Tommy Dreamer over despite looking like cable guys solely through putting them in interesting arcs. ''Creative'' my ass.

>>21149643
Even Heyman couldn't get him over.

Cena apparently loved Cesaro yet he wasn't able to get him a world title run.

>>21150435
the storyline where he was cucking teddy long was good. Sucks wwe got super serious like a year after he debuted