Ricochet Was Set to Join The Hurt Syndicate in AEW, Plans Changed

MVP, the manager of The Hurt Syndicate, said this week that Ricochet was originally planned to join the faction when the group moved to All Elite Wrestling, but that plans changed and the performer took a different career path that has worked out well for him. Speaking on his Marking Out podcast with Dwayne Swayze, MVP described a sequence of creative decisions and contractual complications that altered the group’s composition and Ricochet’s trajectory.

MVP said the Syndicate intended to reunite with a four-person lineup and that Ricochet was their preferred choice for the fourth slot. "Because Cedric was still under contract, we were coming over, and at the time you were still negotiating, there were a lot of pieces. We were like, Okay, we're gonna reunite and Ricochet's gonna have that spot," he said. MVP added that an in-ring segment, in which Bobby Lashley grabbed Ricochet, had been designed to signal the start of Ricochet’s initiation and a shift in his character. "We did that spot in the ring with Bobby when he snatched you up, and that was supposed to have been like where we start initiating Ricochet and where his character changes," he said. "He goes and he becomes, 'I...