AEW Factions

[Loose Cannon]

I'll admit i only tune into AEW once in a while and haven't kept up with it the past month, but how many factions are there in this company now? seems like every time I try and catch up with what's going on, there's another faction. Someone list them all out for me lol. 3+ men/women teams counts as a faction

[Volare]

Inner Circle
The Pinnacle
Dark Order
Nightmare Family
(Whatever QT Marshall's group is called)
Best Friends (now that they got Kris involved.)
H.F.O. - The Hardy Family Office

[Bad News Gertner]

It's becoming 2008 ROH with all the factions

[Bad News Gertner]

It's Gang Warfare!

Bring back Los Boriquas and DOA

[Volare]

At least they are feuding with each other, not counting BF's cause they just finished their program.

Inner Circle vs Pinnacle

Dark Order vs H.F.O.

Nightmare Family vs QT Marshall's group (which I could see being done on AEW-Dark: Elevation, with maybe 1-2 matches on Dynamite)

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Inner Circle
The Pinnacle
Dark Order
Nightmare Family
(Whatever QT Marshall's group is called)
Best Friends (now that they got Kris involved.)
H.F.O. - The Hardy Family Office

The Elite
Death Triangle
Is SCU still a thing?
Team Taz
Jurassic Express
The Butcher the Blade and the Bunny
Miro Kip and Penelope

[drave]

Death Triangle




The only faction that fucking matters.


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[Loose Cannon]

The Elite
Death Triangle
Is SCU still a thing?
Team Taz
Jurassic Express
The Butcher the Blade and the Bunny
Miro Kip and Penelope

yeah, i thought there was more.

I'm a huge fan of factions and definitely one faction on top, but i think this is a little much

[Loose Cannon]

Inner Circle
The Pinnacle
Dark Order
Nightmare Family
(Whatever QT Marshall's group is called)
Best Friends (now that they got Kris involved.)
H.F.O. - The Hardy Family Office

:y:

[Volare]

Forgot Team Taz, but they seem to be on the break up or something.

[Volare]

Plus I dunno I never thought of a trio being a faction, more of a group. Faction to me meant 4+ people that can cover every title division (World or Midcard, Tag and possibly a woman's doesn't have to) but that way some part is always involved and featured.

[Jordan]

I think they think factions equal t-shirt sales and present an easy way of booking.

[slik]

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[Volare]

Slik droppin the knowledge!

[Evil Vito]

Just about everyone in NJPW is in a faction, makes it easy to book feuds with different stable mates pairing off.

Only difference really is that they also run a lot of tournaments and stable mates fighting each other happens kinda often there, nothing weird about it, "just business"

[drave]

Death Triangle

[XL]

The seem to be setting up something with Cesar Bononi and those other 2 guys.

[xrodmuc316]

If everybody is in a faction, factions mean nothing.

[Evil Vito]

Stuff like Cody's Nightmare Family and now possibly QT's group feel like they're more along the lines of MMA fight camps. It's a bunch of guys that train together but don't necessarily operate like a traditional wrestling stable.

The fight camp approach is another thing seen in NJPW a lot. Unless you're on the verge of being murdered, your stable mates are probably not ever running out to help you.

[Emperor Smeat]

John Pollock had an good viewpoint about AEW's use of factions during last night's Review-A-Dynamite episode and why its similar to NJPW's usage of them.

Its both the best way to feature as many people on tv as possible, especially when you have a large roster like AEW, and also helps keep the more important singles matches for feuds fresh and special.

A lot different than how WWE does it with them wanting only the same few people showing up each week and have them constantly wrestle each other in singles matches or tag matches if its a tag feud. End result for them is feuds that start to become stale quickly and PPV matches feeling less special.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

If everybody is in a faction, factions mean nothing.

Of course you’d object to the idea of people having friends and working together.

[Bad News Gertner]

If everybody is in a faction, factions mean nothing.

Or they draw 700,000 viewers

[weather vane]

It makes sense. Everybody has their group in life. If you are looking for logic.

[xrodmuc316]

Of course you’d object to the idea of people having friends and working together.

Yeah because who wants to watch 8 multi person matches ever show?

[Malfeitor]

Nobody was bitching about all of the factions that were present in the attitude era.

[Bad News Gertner]

People hated it in 97

[slik]

No they didn't

[Bad News Gertner]

Boriquas vs DOA won worst feud of the year.

Yes they did

Those DOA/NOD/Boriquas and later the Truth Commisson matches were horrendous.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

That’s because the wrestlers in those jobber factions sucked ass. Everyone in DOA, Los Boriquas and the Truth Commission were garbage.

But the Hart Foundation, DX, the Corporation, the Ministry, the Brood, the Oddities, Too Cool, Team RECK, the Nation, Right to Censor were all over factions during the Attitude Era

[xrodmuc316]

Nobody was bitching about all of the factions that were present in the attitude era.

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Every time man, every time...

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[Supreme Olajuwon]

Imagine thinking the Hart Foundation/DX feud was bad because the Mean Street Posse have really watered down what it means to be in a faction.

Stop with this.

[Bad News Gertner]

That’s because the wrestlers in those jobber factions sucked ass. Everyone in DOA, Los Boriquas and the Truth Commission were garbage.

But the Hart Foundation, DX, the Corporation, the Ministry, the Brood, the Oddities, Too Cool, Team RECK, the Nation, Right to Censor were all over factions during the Attitude Era

Those didn't occur in 97 though. And some of those teams you mentioned weren't factions. Factions are 4 or more, so that dq Too Cool and The Brood. Team RECK was never really a faction. The Oddities without ICP weren't really over. RTC weren't any better than DOA. So your factions are the Ministry, Corporation, The Radicals , Hart Foundation, DX and the Rock version of the Nation. You also had shit like the J.O.B Squad and the Union . Just as much shitty factions as solid ones.