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Prepare For Adam Cole & Undisputed Elite To Dominate AEW
Since arriving in AEW, Adam Cole has been kept on the back burner—at least relative to his time as a main-event level star in NXT and ROH. His first televised match with the company came on the September 15th edition of Dynamite, pinning Frankie Kazarian. Cole unsurprisingly fell in league with friends the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega and would soon find himself joined by former stablemates Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly.
Listing off all that talent and considering the history these men share, it’s somewhat surprising that the Undisputed Elite hasn’t been featured more prominently in programming. They’ve been appearing, sure, but not in the ways many have expected. Cole recently challenged former AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page twice, losing each time. Meanwhile, the Young Bucks haven’t been in the tag-team title picture as a real threat since dropping the belts in September of last year, Kenny Omega has been off television since AEW Full Gear in November of 2021, and Bobby Fish has been on AEW Dark about as often as Dynamite and Rampage. The Undisputed Elite has been hanging around in the background, but the time has come for them to take over the brand entirely.
Much has been made about Cole’s lack of seriousness since arriving in AEW. He’s allowed his character to drift more towards a comedy act instead of the highly decorated champion that he is. There hasn’t been much evolution for Cole since his days in NXT, but with AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door on the horizon, the Undisputed Elite will be in the middle of everything. The group’s members are too deeply tied to New Japan for that not to be the case, and Cole has already been featured alongside Jay White as the mastermind behind the whole forbidden door being thrown open.
Cole won the inaugural Owen Hart Memorial tournament, and it seems like AEW intends to treat this like a big deal. Audiences have also seen Kyle O’Reilly pick up some impressive singles victories recently. He pinned fan-favorite Darby Allin at Double Or Nothing, beat Rey Fenix earlier in May, and had Jungle Boy counting the lights in late April. The Young Bucks lost to the Hardy Boyz at Double Or Nothing, but they’re among the best tag teams on the roster, and it wouldn’t take long to get some momentum going for them. In fact, the loss to the Hardys could be the catalyst for them to begin taking their work a little more seriously again, as much fun as all the over-the-top fashion has been.
Imagine all the gears of this group turning—Cole leveraging his tourney win into a title chase of CM Punk, the Young Bucks getting back to business, and O’Reilly rattling off impressive solo wins—only for Omega to eventually return and bring things to another level entirely. His return date isn’t known at this time, and his health obviously comes first. If Omega is ready to at least get back in from of the camera, though, Forbidden Door could be the Undisputed Elite’s show. They took over ROH. They took over NXT. They took over NJPW. AEW could be next.
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