Predicting Where Every AEW Wrestler Will Be In 5 Years' Time
64. Super Smash Bros.
Over the next five years, the Dark Order will collectively and amicably agree to disband.
There's a shelf life to every pro wrestling act, even one as beloved on a fittingly cult level, and it would be in poor taste to turn them heel at any point. Nobody has any desire to see this specific faction implode and war amongst themselves.
As the reformed Super Smash Bros - only with a less litigious new name - Evil Uno and Stu Grayson will act as midcard gatekeepers whose irreverent invention will delight audiences en route to getting new heel units over.
63. Kazarian
The Bullet Club Hunter deal was fabulous episodic TV on paper.
The last Daily's Place fans went ballistic for his vengeance-fuelled attacks. It didn't translate on the road - and a swift loss to Doc Gallows was abysmal, short-sighted booking by AEW standards - leaving Kazarian pretty much f*cked.
Enormously respected and well-liked, AEW's entire booking ethos relies on talents of his calibre to retain their credibility in clean losses.
He has the patter to put the "fun" in "functional," and is destined to become part of the AEW fabric as long as he can still go - and the man is evergreen.
62. Fuego Del Sol
A vastly underrated babyface job guy, babyface job guys, as you've likely surmised, are invaluable.
Fuego was entrusted to get HOOK's all-important debut over. That was an immense task. But there's only so many wrestlers that AEW can retain for a job that, while valuable, is also bereft of drama. No matter how effective a talent is at that specific craft, it seems naive to forecast a happy ending for every endearing pin-eater. Such a talent needs to have banked credibility before doing it over the long haul, à la Dustin Rhodes.
Fuego will have departed AEW by 2026, having performed an admirable job on the way out.