5 WWE Attitude Era Superstars currently in AEW

#4 Dean Malenko

Dean Malenko was a producer with WWE for 18 years

Dean Malenko is perhaps one of the greatest technical wrestlers to have stepped foot in a WWE ring, and like Goldust, he too was a part of both WWE and WCW during the Monday Night Wars.

Malenko joined WWE in 2000, and was a part of the Radicalz faction alongside Chris Benoit, Perry Saturn, and Eddie Guerrero. He won the Light Heavyweight Championship twice in his WWE career, before retiring and becoming a producer with WWE.

He was a producer for the WWE for 18 years before joining AEW in 2019 as a senior producer.

In an interview after leaving WWE, Malenko revealed that there were some businesses he had to take care of which led to his decision to leave the company:

“I didn’t know I was going to AEW at the time. I had some other businesses, some other things that I wanted to try outside of wrestling, but also know I could do that. So that was kinda starting at the same time as me leaving.”