Every AEW Stable Ranked From Worst To Best
1. The Super Elite
Now that the Super Elite are a fully-formed heel unit, the fully-formed heel unit rules.
It took a long time to get there, and not quite in the trademark AEW-deepens-investment-via-long-term-storytelling way, either. The inner melodramatic conflict of the Young Bucks jarred with the glorified invisible camera in what was a blemish on Dynamite's otherwise spectacular 2021 form.
But even before Kenny Omega convinced his oldest friends to turn, the Omega/Good Brothers connection was great from the jump; Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson added a menacing (and legit hilarious) bruiser edge to the Cleaner's wonderfully affected hubris and formed a great core around which so much awesomeness orbited.
The opening of the Forbidden Door, allowing KENTA to work an elusive banger on US cable TV.
The Death Triangle subplot that spawned several mind-blowing trios bouts.
A feud with the greatest babyface double act of all time, with apologies to the Rock N' Sock connection, in the form of Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston.
And now, with the Bucks at last onside, they are an even greater force. They look, in the best possible way, like fake pretentious d*ckweeds with powerfully garish drips. And if the metaphor is a bit too on-the-nose - the Super Elite have become the carnies they built a career revolting against - the Good Brothers are there to ground it all.
A wonderful embodiment of AEW's shared universe approach, looking at the various players involved, the next year of storylines is already pencilled in. That might even be short-sighted.
That's. Why. There. Are. So. Many. Stables. For. F*ck's. Sake.