Ricochet Says Getting Called Up To WWE Main Roster Was Like His Career Being Thanos Snapped

Ricochet believes his time on the WWE main roster hurt his legacy as a wrestler and was the worst thing to happen to his career. The AEW star was part of WWE from 2018 until his release in 2024. He arrived on the main roster in 2019, being called to Raw via the WWE Draft, and he said on the Mark Hoke Show that his time on Raw and Smackdown was the wrestling career equivalent of being snapped out of existence by Thanos.

Ricochet made it clear he was just talking about the wrestling aspect of his time on Raw and Smackdown, as opposed to personal aspects of that era. You can see the highlights below (per F4W Online):

On Getting Back To Where He Used To Be:

“The Ricochet that I am now is the same Ricochet that I was on the independent scene and in Japan, and doing the things that got me popular to where I am today.”

On His Main Roster Call-Up Hurting His Career:

“You’ve seen the Marvel movies? Thanos snaps, and there was a five-year blip of people (who) were just gone. That five years [on the main roster] was like being blipped away into a different universe. It just wasn’t what I was doing, it wasn’t me. Coming back to AEW and finding that love, it’s like when Tony Stark finally defeated Thanos and all the people came back. That’s how I feel, Ricochet finally came back to what he was doing. And I feel like that five years was just blipped away.

“I already know how this is going to sound, and I already know how people are going to take this, but I think that the day we got called up to Raw was the worst thing that happened to Ricochet’s wrestling career.”

On His Main Roster Run Hurting Perception Of Him:

“The trajection that I was on compared to the trajection that I got for those five years and how it completely changed the public’s image of Ricochet and who Ricochet was… Specifically the wrestling side of it, that five years really tarnished Ricochet’s wrestling legacy.”