AEW Stables/Managerial Thread

[Dragonfly]

Doesn't hurt to have a cheat sheet.

Stables/Trios

Nightmare Family

Cody Rhodes
Brandi Rhodes
Dustin Rhodes
QT Marshall
Arn Anderson
Lee Johnson
The Gunn Club (sub-group)
Billy Gunn
Austin Gunn
Colten Gunn


The Inner Circle

Chris Jericho
Sammy Guevara
Jake Hager
Santana
Ortiz
MJF
Wardlow


The Dark Order

Mister Brodie Lee
Evil Uno
Stu Grayson
Alex Reynolds
John Silver
Alan Angels
Preston Vance
Colt Cabana
Anna Jay


Team Taz

Taz
Brian Cage
Ricky Starks
Will Hobbs


The Family

Eddie Kingston
The Butcher
The Blade
The Bunny/Allie


Best Friends

Chuck Taylor
Trent
Orange Cassidy


Death Triangle

Pac
Pentagon Jr.
Rey Fenix


The Elite

Matt Jackson (Tag Champ)
Nick Jackson (Tag Champ)
Kenny Omega (#1 Ranked Male Competitor)


Jurassic Express

Luchasaurus
Jungle Boy
Marko Stunt


SCU

Christopher Daniels
Frankie Kazarian
Scorpio Sky


Superbad Squad

Kip Sabian
Penelope Ford
Miro


Mentorship

Tully Blanchard

Cash Wheeler (#1 Ranked Tag Team)
Dax Harwood (#1 Ranked Tag Team)
Shawn Spears


Matt Hardy

Isiah Kassidy
Marq Quen


Vickie Guerrero

Nyla Rose


Jake Roberts

Lance Archer


Unaffiliated

Face

John Moxley (AEW Champion)
Hikaru Shida (Women's Champion)
Serena Deeb (NWA Women's Champion)
Darby Allina (TNT Champion)
Big Swole (#1 Ranked Female Competitor)
Thunder Rosa
Hangman Page
Kris Statlander
Riho
Matt Sydal
Shanna
Joey Janela
Sonny Kiss
Ivelesse
Diamante
Brandon Cutler
Leva Bates
Michael Nakazawa


Heel

Jack Evans
Angelico
Abadon
Dr. Britt Baker DMD
Rebel/Reba
Jade Cargill
Luther
Sepentico
Tay Conti
Peter Avalon

[Dub H]

I really love it.Hopefully we start seeing some girls in squads in the future

[Bang Bang Bart]

Stable Alignments

Nightmare Family (Face)
Inner Circle (Heel)
Dark Order (Heel)
Team Taz (Heel)
Eddie Kingston’s Family (Heel)
Best Friends (Face)
Death Triangle (Tweener)
The Elite (Faceish Tweeners?)
SCU (Face)
Superbad Squad (Heel)

[Mozenrath]

It's funny, it feels like a ton of people are in Nightmare Family, but it's the same as Inner Circle if we're just counting the dudes, and less since Arn doesn't wrestle. That's not really that unmanageable. Dark Order still wins on numbers.

Also, if we're counting SCU and Best Friends, I'd also put Jurassic Express.

[chrom]

Don't really count Best Friends or Superbad Squad as a stable. A stable should be recognized as 4 or more.

[Cyno]

I don't know if the Elite is a real stable anymore. Omega and the Bucks are both doing their own things now. Though maybe the Bucks were the ones that attacked Moxley in the back.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Nov 18, 2020 23:09:15 GMT -5 Dub H said:

I really love it.Hopefully we start seeing some girls in squads in the future

I commented in another thread that it wouldn't surprise me if they're gunshy about it thanks to their opening gambit of a women's heel faction being the biggest flop of an angle in the company so far. Which is a shame, because between Vickie, Dark Order, Ivelisse, Britt, and Brandi, they have a lot of wrestlers who would be pretty good choices to head one up.

[eJm]

Nov 18, 2020 23:12:05 GMT -5 chrom said:

Don't really count Best Friends or Superbad Squad as a stable. A stable should be recognized as 4 or more.

Eh, I don’t like that because then we wouldn’t be recognizing the Freebirds as a stable and that kind of seems wrong to me.

[The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM}]

Nov 18, 2020 23:16:20 GMT -5 eJm said:

Nov 18, 2020 23:12:05 GMT -5 chrom said:

Don't really count Best Friends or Superbad Squad as a stable. A stable should be recognized as 4 or more.

Eh, I don’t like that because then we wouldn’t be recognizing the Freebirds as a stable and that kind of seems wrong to me.

Or the Shield. New Day is a 3 man tag team, but Shield is a 3 man stable.

[FinalGwen]

Noticing that with Hobbs in Team Taz, Kingston's family being him Butcher and Blade, and Death Triangle being reformed, we've got a lot more potential trios to add into the mix. Could be building up to something.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Nov 18, 2020 23:24:19 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

Noticing that with Hobbs in Team Taz, Kingston's family being him Butcher and Blade, and Death Triangle being reformed, we've got a lot more potential trios to add into the mix. Could be building up to something.

Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here, hoping Hybrid 3 (Sydal/Hybrid 2) and Chaos Project (Luther, Serpentico and Ryzin) also happens...

Also yes, a Trios title seems more and more plausible by the week. Might be a good thing to announce for next year
  

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

So I've been curious about the current story trajectory that Tay Conti is ultimately going to reject the Dark Order. Being AEW women, it's likely that this just leads to a singles feud and the prospect of adding more women to the Dark Order gets left on the table.

If it were pursued, though? I'm really intrigued by some of the possibilities.

If they want someone like Alan Angles or Preston Vance, who is just fine in the ring but needs a character? Tesha Price and Skyler Moore seem about right. Both of them have been pretty good in the ring, but neither has a defined hook at all.

But if they go with someone who already has the charisma and character down, who can play off the zaniness that the stable has developed? I would be ecstatic to see Kenzie Paige mugging it up alongside John Silver.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Nov 18, 2020 23:41:36 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

So I've been curious about the current story trajectory that Tay Conti is ultimately going to reject the Dark Order. Being AEW women, it's likely that this just leads to a singles feud and the prospect of adding more women to the Dark Order gets left on the table.

If it were pursued, though? I'm really intrigued by some of the possibilities.

If they want someone like Alan Angles or Preston Vance, who is just fine in the ring but needs a character? Tesha Price and Skyler Moore seem about right. Both of them have been pretty good in the ring, but neither has a defined hook at all.

But if they go with someone who already has the charisma and character down, who can play off the zaniness that the stable has developed? I would be ecstatic to see Kenzie Paige mugging it up alongside John Silver.

KiLyn King would be great for Dark Order, as would someone with size like Savannah Evans

Moore, Paige, Jordyn, Price, Gracia even, there's a lot of young prospects they can actually choose from if they wanted to to join Dark Order if they strike out with Conti, who can then possibly join Brandi, Red Velvet, and the other faces in combating them.

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

Nov 18, 2020 23:37:58 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Nov 18, 2020 23:24:19 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

Noticing that with Hobbs in Team Taz, Kingston's family being him Butcher and Blade, and Death Triangle being reformed, we've got a lot more potential trios to add into the mix. Could be building up to something.

Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here, hoping Hybrid 3 (Sydal/Hybrid 2) and Chaos Project (Luther, Serpentico and Ryzin) also happens...

Also yes, a Trios title seems more and more plausible by the week. Might be a good thing to announce for next year
  

Honestly at first I wasn't sure about more belts but since we have so many great teams now and a second show coming next year, I'd actually be ok with it.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Nov 19, 2020 0:05:04 GMT -5 Harry The Arrow was Wrong! said:

Nov 18, 2020 23:37:58 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Don't mind me, I'm just sitting here, hoping Hybrid 3 (Sydal/Hybrid 2) and Chaos Project (Luther, Serpentico and Ryzin) also happens...

Also yes, a Trios title seems more and more plausible by the week. Might be a good thing to announce for next year
  

Honestly at first I wasn't sure about more belts but since we have so many great teams now and a second show coming next year, I'd actually be ok with it.

I also feel like if they made a really cool Smokey Chrome AEW DARK Title... I'd buy in to it...

Plus then if someone wins it, and shows up with it on Dynamite, they can promote how the belt is only defended on DARK and to tune in to see it. 

But yeah Trios Titles seems like an inevitability, there are so many Trios and Factions, hell this week alone we saw Gunn Club have Colton debut, Death Triangle return, Butcher Blade and Kingston shrink to a three man Family, and Team Taz grow to three with Will Hobbs. It feels like it's all coming together... 

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

Nov 19, 2020 0:08:22 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Nov 19, 2020 0:05:04 GMT -5 Harry The Arrow was Wrong! said:

Honestly at first I wasn't sure about more belts but since we have so many great teams now and a second show coming next year, I'd actually be ok with it.

I also feel like if they made a really cool Smokey Chrome AEW DARK Title... I'd buy in to it...

Plus then if someone wins it, and shows up with it on Dynamite, they can promote how the belt is only defended on DARK and to tune in to see it. 

But yeah Trios Titles seems like an inevitability, there are so many Trios and Factions, hell this week alone we saw Gunn Club have Colton debut, Death Triangle return, Butcher Blade and Kingston shrink to a three man Family, and Team Taz grow to three with Will Hobbs. It feels like it's all coming together... 

A DARK exclusive title would definitely be interesting. Especially when you have dudes like Spears raking up tons of wins on the show. You can have people improving on the show like it was originally intended for but it would also make the wins feel like they really mean something.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Nov 19, 2020 0:19:26 GMT -5 Harry The Arrow was Wrong! said:

Nov 19, 2020 0:08:22 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

I also feel like if they made a really cool Smokey Chrome AEW DARK Title... I'd buy in to it...

Plus then if someone wins it, and shows up with it on Dynamite, they can promote how the belt is only defended on DARK and to tune in to see it. 

But yeah Trios Titles seems like an inevitability, there are so many Trios and Factions, hell this week alone we saw Gunn Club have Colton debut, Death Triangle return, Butcher Blade and Kingston shrink to a three man Family, and Team Taz grow to three with Will Hobbs. It feels like it's all coming together... 

A DARK exclusive title would definitely be interesting. Especially when you have dudes like Spears raking up tons of wins on the show. You can have people improving on the show like it was originally intended for but it would also make the wins feel like they really mean something.

It would make the wins on DARK mean something more I agree, and guys who get a ton of wins there like Spears and Starks? It would be a really cool gimmick to give them, and even give other wrestlers something to do.

It also doesn't oversaturate the belt pool because it's defended exclusively on DARK, but like the Mega Campeon and such could still make show appearances. 

Khan's spoken about how DARK has expanded and become a stronger entity than it ever has before, so I would love to see something like that if the opportunity presented itself. I definitely think we're getting Trios titles though.

[ronin705]

Isnt the third Gunn child inolved now too?? Think he just got his for win on DARK

[toodarkmark]

And Hangman Page is a man alone.

[ronin705]

Nov 19, 2020 0:58:25 GMT -5 toodarkmark said:

And Hangman Page is a man alone.

Maybe there should be a "Faces" and "Heels" header for all the non-affiliated??