Tanahashi Coates
Superstar
He doesn’t belong in the World title picture and wrestling every week, period. Let alone getting wins over guys with real potential. I don’t care how much merch he sells. Find something else for him to do in the undercard then.
The Godfather was mega over with the male demographic in the Attitude Era. How often did you see him in the main event? He had his own niche in the underneath. Road Dogg and Billie Gunn was one of the most popular acts and helped DX sell merch. How often were they hogging up space in the WWF title picture and getting wins? AEW has too much talent for him to be getting top placements.
You're being shortsighted about this. Hobbs looked great in defeat and he's getting the Jungle Boy Jack push where his face turn is gonna be The comments on YouTube are full of "Orange is my guy but I wanted Hobbs to win". Orange needed to go over to further the eventual heel turn of Mox. In a company where it's hard as fukk to get heat, you need a face that's as over as OC to sell it.
Godfather and NAO are terrible comparisons. Remember Rockabilly, The Roadie and Kama Mustafa? At least OC played a fukking Ant in Chikara