AEW star Ricochet has revealed new details about his arrival in the company and the long-term plans for his character. In a recent appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show, the former WWE star disclosed that he officially signed his contract with All Elite Wrestling in July of 2024, a little over a month before he made his shocking debut at the All In pay-per-view in London that August. The revelation sheds light on the level of planning and secrecy that went into bringing the high-profile free agent into the company. His debut was one of the most talked-about moments of the year, and it is clear that his transition to AEW was a carefully orchestrated move.
During the interview, he also confirmed that a heel turn was always the intended long-term direction for his character, even before he had his first match.
“It’s been awesome. It’s been so much fun. It kind of went exactly like I foresaw it going. Before I made any decisions or anything, when we got here, I actually signed in July, but I didn’t debut until late August. We were there for a little bit and I was always saying, ‘Ricochet, the goal isn’t to come in, be champion immediately, and dominate.’ It was come in, have some good matches, show people that Ricochet can still have good matches, then shift character-wise. I was always supposed to turn heel. We had other plans with another group, I don’t want to give too much away, but we had other plans before I even debuted, we had a trajectory of where I was gonna go. Then, what happened was so good with the way it was going that we stuck with Ricochet being a solo thing because it was going so good. The plan was always to shift character and turn. Things worked out the way they did. Some things you can plan, some things you have to run with. Everything happened to follow in line and Ricochet has made those moments.”
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