Last week on AEW Collision, Hologram made his highly anticipated debut following a series of promotional clips hyping his arrival.
As we’ve been reporting here on eWn, the launch of this Hologram character has been in the works within AEW for over a year. AAA and GCW talent Aramis is the individual portraying the masked gimmick.
On the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed AEW President Tony Khan’s idea for Hologram. 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. The thing with him is in the interim, since he had this idea, we have had so many luchadors 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.”
Hologram’s debut involved a squash victory in a one-sided match against Gringo Loco. It is to be noted that Gringo Loco is not signed to AEW at this time.
