Every AEW Stable Ranked From Worst To Best
4. The Inner Circle
The original AEW heel stable have since turned babyface in an overdue development recognised as such in storylines.
The "Ha-ha comedy bullsh*t" of the winter months served a purpose beyond what was uneven entertainment value that, at its best, was still piss funny: all along, it was a vehicle to position the Pinnacle as their replacement.
The stable was tremendous as a personality-drenched proper heel stable pre-pandemic before they - and nowhere near enough credit is given for this, incidentally - lightened the dire mood by showing all ten ass cheeks across Stadium Stampede and the fun mini-programme opposite the Best Friends. They doused their own heat to make all of this significantly less depressing.
As babyfaces - nursery rhymes aside - they rule once more as a serious concern. Santana is a future Ace headliner, Jake Hager was always deadpan funny and it works better now, and the very happy byproduct of Chris Jericho's midlife crisis is that he really does come across as a crazy person ready to go apesh*t in a double cage.