10 Wrestlers AEW Stole From Under WWE's Nose
3. John Silver & Alex Reynolds
Dark Order lifers John Silver and Alex Reynolds were brought in to All Elite Wrestling in late-2019, first to be beaten up supposedly terrifying group they'd later join, before extolling the virtues of being taken in by the corrupting influences.
A strange way to kick off a run that has now lasted four years and helped them cultivate personalities as tenured television pros, but even stranger was that they were on WWE screens just weeks before AEW Dynamite transformed the landscape of the weekly wrestling world.
Eating a squash loss to Heavy Machinery on a Madison Square Garden edition of SmackDown in September, the pair weren't picked up by the market leader and quickly went from making up the numbers to making it onto pay-per-view for the brand new opposition. As the warm body taking the most abuse, Silver in particular shone, but the slick tag outfit that lay beneath the local enhancement aura was deemed surplus - or extra - to company requirements at the time.