AEW Double or Nothing 2020: 5 stars who could join the Casino Ladder Match

2. Scorpio Sky

Like with The Fordians, I picked Sky as a massive breakout singles star. This was just before AEW released the first of two videos on Sky (above), so I know that AEW management also has their eyes on the potential of Sky as a singles wrestler.

Sky is arguably the best wrestler included in this list. He’s arguably better than both announced participants. He is a great technical wrestler, can take to “sky” when necessary, and is about as fluid as one can hope. That fluidity is needed in a ladder match.

If Allin is leaping off a tall ladder, Sky is probably doing something like running up a ladder, leaping onto the top rope, and springboarding onto his fellow competitors at ringside.

His fluidity should also help mitigate what will be some brutal bumps. That shouldn’t be overlooked.

Sky winning the contract also frees him up to focus on being a singles wrestler so that his fellow SCU members Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian can team again (remember how successful they were as The Addiction?).

A former World Championship challenger, we know the fans are behind Sky. All it took was booking him to win matches. Who knew!

The first face on this list, Sky with the contract should continually build up his status with victorious singles feuds over gradually tougher competition. He could then announce ahead of time he is signing the contract for Full Gear or Revolution. Because he has the support of fans, it is crucial not to do anything to diminish that support.

Unless, of course, the plan is to turn Sky heel, though I would advise against that option.

The beauty of Sky having the contract is his styles mesh well with pretty much any wrestler regardless of two important factors: the style of his competition and their face/heel disposition. Sky is also somewhat of a chameleon in that he can work whatever style is most comfortable for his opponent.

What better way to build up his credibility than having him against divergent styles like Hager, Guevara, Wardlow, Evil Uno, Stu Grayson, Pres10 Vance, Santana, Ortiz, and/or others? That’s a pretty diverse group of in-ring styles.

Further, as I’ve written before, this would help AEW by having more men’s wrestlers of color in the upper-mid to upper-card singles scene (like SUGE D/Pineapple Pete recently). For a company that stressed there would be men of color in the World Championship picture, it’s a very White scene that still has Sky’s title match as the only World Championship match involving a man of color (and that was in November).

Of course, trying to fill some nebulous definition of diversity shouldn’t (and isn’t) the main goal of upper-card placement (except for maybe Jinder Mahal as WWE Champion). It does help, however, when someone as talented as Sky is waiting for the opportunity to show his star potential.

There may be no bigger opportunity for Sky than winning this match.