8 Wrestlers Who Could Be Revealed As Leader Of The Dark Order
1. Hangman Page
Pros:
Hangman Page has plummeted in standing from AEW World Championship contender to a man who both feels like he isn't worthy of the Elite, and was made to not feel worthy of the Elite at Bash At The Beach. He is precisely the sort of act the Dark Order are preying on: low on confidence, rejected, in a state of professional crisis.
Cons:
This is where things get iffy, and the potentially fatal folly of the Dark Order reveals itself. In concept, the idea is inspired and congruous to AEW's wins-and-losses-matter framework. There is a gravity and consequence to losing that the Dark Order prey upon to bolster their ranks. In presentation, the act comes off minor league, and the sight of Hangman Page in a purple mask just seems awful. His apathetic drunken persona is a far funnier, meme-generating take on his mindset.
Revealing Page as the Exalted One would feel like Stan Hansen turning into Mideon before our very eyes, and what's worse, we'd have to buy the idea that Page was scheming with Evil Uno and Grayson all along - presumably before he even lost said, career-defining title match.
Probability: 40%