Claim made that WWE doesn’t see Ilja Dragunov as a top star but rather “an interchangeable mid-card guy”

They don’t see him as a top guy. They just don’t. And I’m not even saying that they’re necessarily wrong, but he’s never really had the opportunity to be anything more than the guy who gives you really, really great matches and he’s got a level of intensity that no one else has, which is his calling card. But I think that maybe they feel that the promos aren’t great

He’s very unique, and I think that the fact that he can go out there and bring something out of the crowd because no one else works like that in AEW or WWE, that could be a calling card because he could be memorable and different.

And he could be the guy where he comes out and you’re going like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna see an intensity that we don’t get in anybody else’s matches,’ because that is what he potentially can bring. I don’t think that they feel that that’s as marketable as Trick Williams.”