Following the July 20 edition of Collision, a new report has revealed a backstage update on AEW star Hologram’s debut.
On the July 20 episode of AEW Collision, Hologram made his debut for the company in a win over Gringo Loco. This win was the first match for the former Aramis in All Elite Wrestling with a character created by AEW President Tony Khan.
As previously reported by Fightful Select, the Tony Khan-created character has been at least a year in the making behind the scenes of the promotion.
On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer provided a backstage update on Hologram’s debut and Tony Khan’s idea behind it. He said:
“Tony Khan has had an idea for Aramis for probably five years, maybe four. For whatever reason, it never materialized, and now it has.
“In the interim, since he had this idea, we have had so many luchadores come through. Aramis is very good and his moves were good and everything, but to me it was like, I felt like, how’s he any different from Komander? And Komander’s probably the better of the two, but Komander’s a jobber.
“Look, Tony Khan’s wanted his luchador superhero with that gimmick for a long, long time. The guy’s good, it’s just a question of pushing him and how far you can go with him.
“But when I’m watching it, it’s like, I was very impressed but at the same time I felt like he was not out of the ordinary. Five years ago, if I had seen this, I’d have said this guy’s out of the ordinary, but we’ve seen so much and it’s a lot harder to impress with moves and cool moves alone, because man we’ve seen so many cool moves in the last five years.
“If he gets a whole bunch of wins, will the people react to him like a star? Remains to be seen.”
This is similar to what Meltzer stated about the Hologram vignettes prior to the star’s debut on AEW Collision regarding how long ago this has actually been planned for.
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