Most Popular AEW performers

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I know “popular” is hard to define but if someone were to ask you who you think the top 5 “popular” AEW performers are, who’d come up to you and why?

Im curious because going through the roster there’s a lot of justifiable acts whether it’s them being over or mass appeal.

[Mozenrath]

It can be tricky sometimes to say. Hangman, Darby, Mox, Punk, MJF (depending on how you look at it), Orange, Swerve, Hook, there are a number of people who routinely get a lot of noise. It'd be hard to narrow it down.

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May 13, 2022 0:21:33 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

It can be tricky sometimes to say. Hangman, Darby, Mox, Punk, MJF (depending on how you look at it), Orange, Swerve, Hook, there are a number of people who routinely get a lot of noise. It'd be hard to narrow it down.

Mmhmm. Jeff Hardy’s pops have been huge and consistent too.

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Currently? You could actively make a case for Silver, Danhausen, and HOOK being in the upper echelon, and the BCC all consistently get some mad pops, Wardlow's on some god shit right now. Eddie Kingston always captivates, dude is money.

Cassidy and Keith Lee are up there too, peeps love them boys

Punk, Hangman, Darby, Hardy's and such are all more common anaswers tbh, but for good reason

Women wise, Baker's always popular, she might not be here but she's popular with the fans, so is Rosa, Shida, Riho, and Toni Storm's come in like a house of fire herself. Ruby Soho is also very consistently over, and surprisingly Abadon gets some wild live pops for her entrance as well, they got something with her.

[lavelleuk22]

Punk, Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Young Bucks, Jenny Omega imo

[Mid-Carder]

First ones I thought of were Hangman, Eddie Kingston and Thunder Rosa.

[Tea & Crumpets]

Really depends how you define it.
Hardcore fanbase wise it's hard to call, everyone has their favourites.
I'm a lapsed hardcore fan & my dudes are (in order):
-Regal
-Kingston
-MJF
-Jericho
-Orange Cassidy when he is a bit more serious

My other half is a very new, casual fan and is probably the best gauge I can use for casual fandom as a result, but has a real eclectic taste:
-MJF
-Jericho
-Fenix
-Leyla Hirsch
-Strangest of all, Tomohiro Ishii. His minimal appearances made a randomly huge impression.

AEW's variety show approach I think means that they rarely have guys who are super-popular in a conventional wrestling style- the whole product is so varied that no show will appeal to everyone, no show will entirely appeal to anyone, and there will always be stuff people don't like, but conversely there's such a range of options that anyone will probably find someone or something they enjoy. Sit a dozen people down to watch a few AEW shows & they'll probably all have a completely different Fav Five.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

May 13, 2022 3:19:26 GMT -5 lavelleuk22 said:

Punk, Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Young Bucks, Jenny Omega imo

Is Jenny Omega his wife or sister?


Anyway adding to the list, you have to put Adam Cole into the mic. Dude always gets a lot Adam Cole Baybay every time he comes out.

[Cyno]

My guess would be in no real order: Punk, Moxley, Hangman, Omega, Danielson, MJF, and Cole.

[lavelleuk22]

May 13, 2022 10:57:44 GMT -5 Can you afford to pay me, Gah said:

May 13, 2022 3:19:26 GMT -5 lavelleuk22 said:

Punk, Moxley, Bryan Danielson, Young Bucks, Jenny Omega imo

Is Jenny Omega his wife or sister?


Anyway adding to the list, you have to put Adam Cole into the mic. Dude always gets a lot Adam Cole Baybay every time he comes out.

Crap, I forgot he hadn't announced his gimmick change publicly yet...

[Jindrak Mark]

Using a mixture of star power, crowd reaction and drawing ability I'd say the top 5 are Punk, Danielson, Moxley, Sting and Jericho. I kinda want to include Jeff Hardy too. He's been insanely popular for years but he's just arrived and I'm not sure who to remove from that top 5 to put him in. AEW wouldn't have been as successful in its early days without Jericho and Moxley's built-in popularity. They were absolutely key and carried the company for the first year. Punk and Danielson came in later and took it to another level. And Sting is just one of the most iconic names of the past 30+ years.

In terms of people who weren't already household names in American wrestling before AEW: Page. Omega. Bucks. MJF.

[Deleted]

Based on crowd reactions when I watch I'd have to say CM Punk, MJF, Hangman, Jericho, and Danielson. Cole, Hook, and Omega (when he's around) are really close.

[Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen]

Moxley
Punk
Hangman
Eddie Kingston
Thunder Rosa

[Big BosskMan]

I think The Acclaimed is very close, if not there, to being a hugely popular act even if their TV appearances typically consist of them putting someone else over.

[sportatorium]

Almost everyone they feature on TV is over to some degree. I think the most over are:

Danielson
Punk
Moxley
Hangman
MJF

Wardlow is on the brink and will be able to move up once he gets through the feud with MJF. I would have thought a healthy Kenny Omega would be in the top 5, but not so sure now.

[DeeBee]

I feel like tiers right now would be something like:

MEGA OVER/GOD TIER: Punk, Danielson, Regal, Moxley, "Judas"

EXTREMELY POPULAR: MJF, Omega, Thunder Rosa, FTR, Bucks, Jeff Hardy, Sting, Darby, Kingston

POPULAR BY NADA SURF: Wardlow, Hook, Danhausen, Orange Cassidy, Yuta

POPULAR, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY: Jericho (once the song ends), Page, Jurassic Express, Baker (if she's not in Pittsburg)