10 HUGE Tests Wrestlers Passed
9. Mr. Brodie Lee Saves The Dark Order
The Dark Order was a noble failure.
Conceived by the Young Bucks to build storylines around the ranking system, Evil Uno et al. - "et al." regrettably meant roadies lopping their tongues out in a bid to appear disturbed - preyed on the losers, like Michael Nakazawa and Brandon Cutler, to bolster their numbers. The idea was rooted in logic, but dressed like the fat chancers of the post-World of Sport British leisure centre circuit. The "creepers" weren't remotely intimidating. And yet one of them decked Kenny Omega as part of a stupidly ambitious - and unwanted - main event push. The most enthusiastic wrestling crowds on the planet shrugged and cringed, quietly deleting their tweets burying Hell In A Hell 2019 in fear of a mutant invasion in their replies.
Noble, but also embarrassing - until Mr. Brodie Lee somehow conspired to save the act as the Exalted One.
After an on-the-nose Vince McMahon impersonation only got over for a week, Lee refined and made the bit his own by removing this monster from the shareholder meeting and placing him in gorilla blowing a f*cking gasket at the insolent morons around him. Structuring matches to reorder them at his whim, this all-powerful Brodie was at his his strongest going ballistic when one of his kids smashed the ship in the glass bottle.
Lee turned the worst act in North American wrestling into its greatest lost opportunity.