10 AEW Disappointments We Really Didn't See Coming

7. The Pinnacle

An incredible debut angle that promised more than AEW were ever seemingly willing to deliver, The Pinnacle were established as direct competition to The Inner Circle when MJF revealed a double agent plot during his long and wide-ranging angle with Chris Jericho.

A group of heels with one common bond as a starting point rapidly became fractured when they failed at their stated aim of taking The Inner Circle down and out. Heels don’t have to follow through on their threats by rule, but the amount of times they failed to do so rapidly undermined their credibility as a stable, let alone AEW’s heel centrepiece.

In the months that followed, they weren’t on screen that much together, and only really utilised their strength in numbers when it was absolutely necessary. Splinter angles have remained hot, but the dominance their original union promised feels like a pipe dream just 12 months on from their inception.