Who's your FAV FIVE™ (Spring 2023 Edition - AEW side)

[Chiral]

2011 Booker T time travels to you and demands to know your current fav five, but only in one wrestling company that isn't WWE (2011 Booker T obviously doesn't know AEW exists yet). How do you respond?

My current F A V F I V E™ :

Christian Cage
Swerve Strickland
Kenny Omega
Orange Cassidy
Hangman Page

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In terms of both ring and character work right now, and I'll divide it up between teams and such, no particular order:

Men:

Omega
Darby Allin
Orange Cassidy
Konosuke Takeshita
Jeff Jarrett (Yes really)

Women:

Hayter
Riho
Willow
Ruby
Julia Hart

Favorite Tag Team: The Acclaimed

Favorite Trio: House of Black

Favorite Non-Wrestler: Stokely

Favorite Commentator: Excalibur

Honorable Mention: Vikingo, cause he's not technically signed.

[ayumidah]

1 Jade Cargill
2 Orange Cassidy
3 HOOK
4 Jungle Boy
5 The Kingdom

[ehead]

Too many in mind but lately I particularly dig Stokely Hathaway, Ricky Starks & Athena's work.

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May 14, 2023 0:47:39 GMT -5 ehead said:

Too many in mind but lately I particularly dig Stokely Hathaway, Ricky Starks & Athena's work.

Good point, added Stokely as my favorite Non-wrestler, Don's a close second, he's killing it right now, and then Sonjay's insane coked out antics

[Slingshot Suplay]

Men:
Omega
Hangman
Vikingo
Young bucks
Lucha Bros

Women:
Ruby
Thunder rosa
Jade
Shida
Willow

[DSR]

No particular order, but something like:

Willow Nightingale
Bandido
Orange Cassidy
Mark Briscoe
RJ City (if he counts)

[Bo Rida]

Hmm, this is surprisingly difficult as some of those that usually make the list haven't had many matches lately.

1. Orange Cassidy - The best championship reign in a long while and the person to point to when people claim nobody sells anymore.

2. Darby - Really stepping up on the mic, should win the title imo.

3. Hook - He just has that aura that holds my attention

4. Brody King w/Julia - A great monster, he's apparently a big part of Julia getting better in her role (her facial expressions can be great) and I wouldn't like him as much solo so I can cheat and put them together.

5. Jeff Jarrett? How the hell has that happened? Get Danielson, Hayter, Swerve and Takeshita wrestling more big singles matches asap!

[Dub H]

1.OC

2. Omega

3.Christian

4.The Acclaimed

5.Powerhouse Hobbs

This top list changes if people are used or not, I WISH I could add Shida. For example I wish I could add Riho to it, if they were used properly. Hook could be there if he had more focus. Lucha Bros and Acclaimed could easily switch.

I love all of Dark Order but they only appear to job in place of Hangman


Julia is maybe number 6, with some more time and seasoning, she could easily be a focus of the division if she can break that glass ceiling.Tay could also make it if she wasnt reduced to a useless generic valet.

[4real]

Men:

Jon Moxley (Pulling off the heel run pretty well. Certainly better than that awful WWE heel run)
MJF (Still the man despite the detractors. A face turn has to happen eventually though no matter how much he will fight it…unless he leaves of course)
Bryan Danielson (Patchy promos but his prescience on screen is still huge)
Brody King (Pick any House of Black member this week)
Darby Allin (Has felt like the star of the Pillars feud, really taking this chance more than Jungleboy & Sammy)

Women:

Jamie Hayter (banger theme and always banging the ring, London is going to love her in August)
Ruby Soho (The best of the Outcasts by a mile)
Britt Baker (face turn going surprisingly well. Can’t wait for the Jamie feud eventually)
Julia Hart (Who doesn’t love the Spooky Witch?)
Anna Jay (really finding her niche in No Rules matches, not a massive fan of her as a heel and miss her in Dark Order honestly)

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

•Danhausen
•Brody King
•Mox
•Omega
•Adam Cole (BAY BAY!)

[Kalmia]

In no particular order

Kenny Omega
Orange Cassidy
Jamie Hayter
Hangman
Swerve Strickland

Props to Stokely and Christian for being constantly entertaining though.

[firsttimelongtime]

Orange Cassidy
Jeff Jarrett
Sting
Rush
Bryan Danielson

[Jindrak Mark]

Danielson
Fenix
Jamie
Shida
Joe (if we're counting ROH)

[Hypnosis]

Men:

1. Kenny Omega
2. Hangman Page
3. Swerve Strickland
4. Orange Cassidy
5. Danhausen

Women:

1. Jamie Hayter
2. Hikaru Shida
3. Toni Storm
4. Willow Nightingale
5. Ruby Soho

[Celexa Bliss 54]

1. Orange Cassidy - dude is the MVP of Dynamite right now
2. Mox - Right behind OC, carried the damn company through uncertain times... and through the Covid era, too
3. The Acclaimed - best tag team, best mic guys
4. Willow Nightingale - I wish we'd see more of her, but MAH GIRL is gonna be a star one of these days
5. House of Black - they've finally found their place in the company, as it's top trio and Julia might be one of the best female acts in the company and at her age, she's only going to get better

Gonna add some honorable mentions: Hangman Adam Page, Kenny Omega, Swerve Strickland, THE OUTCASTS, Anna 🍑 Jay, Stokely Hathaway, Triple J, and Adam Cole BAY BAY!

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

May 14, 2023 9:43:21 GMT -5 ASYLUMHAUSEN said:

•Danhausen
•Brody King
•Mox
•Omega
•Adam Cole (BAY BAY!)

My Secondary Five because it’s impossible for me to narrow it down to just five because there’s so many people on the roster I love. Shit is absolutely stacked.

•Swerve
•American Dragon
•Mark Briscoe
•Eddie
•Orange

And the Women get Love too…
•Ruby
•Julia Hart
•Saraya
•Jamie
•Shida

[Billie Gein]

Jeff Jarrett
Danhausen
Bryan Danielson
Satnam Singh
The Acclaimed & THE ASS MAN Billy Gunn

[Some Guy]

Counting ROH...

Men:
Eddie
All of BCC (cheating because I can and I love all of my beautiful boys of the BCC)
Shibata
Swerve
Bandido

Women:
Athena
Hayter
Emi
Shida
Yuka

[Doo Doo Dickhead]

House of Black
THE OUTCASTS
Swerve Strickland
Jon Moxley
Jamie Hayter

Very difficult coming up with just 5. I feel bad leaving my other favorites off.