10 Short-Lived Wrestling Stables You've Already Forgotten
4. Nightmare Collective
One of AEW's first and only bona fide failures, the Nightmare Collective represented a series of bad ideas placed atop one another in the faint hope that something - anything - would stick.
Brandi Rhodes' alliance with Awesome Kong hadn't yielded anything noteworthy before the duo became a trio with the addition of the relatively unknown Mel. Things went from bad to worse the more they appeared on television - a division that was already starting to show substantial cracks completely collapsed under the pressure of trying to find room for an act that failed to resonate in the ring and in backstage segments.
In the case of the latter, the collective's existence brought about some truly rotten creative. Rhodes' character appeared to undergo some dark and twisted transformations, but the reasons for it occurring (and some all-important specifics about what she was supposed to be going through) went largely unrepresented and unexplained.
Boxed in to 2019's "spooky bullsh*t" corner of Dynamite alongside the original Dark Order concept, the group quietly admitted creative defeat and disbanded in early-2020.