The Dark Order starting off as AEW’s first failure and rebounding into a massive success story set that standard for factions trying to turn things around. Many groups have had hot starts like the New World Order or The Shield to create strong interest from the start. However, there are the rough starts that make things harder to fix.

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Each faction to survive the difficulties would benefit in the long haul by growing through those pains. Fans gave them a chance to prove their worth after a rebranding or just having their talent shine. The stories are different, but the end result remains the same. Wrestling factions can still thrive if the beginning of their formation doesn’t go according to plan.

10 Dark Order

Dark Order Debut

The early push of Dark Order saw Evil Uno and Stu Grayson bringing their tag team act to AEW. A smaller fan base recognized them from their time as the Super Smash Brothers in PWG and other promotions, but the general AEW audience seemed confused.

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Confusing segments and a lack of consistency made fans sour on them. AEW doubled down on the booking by pushing Dark Order until Brodie Lee joined as the new leader. Dark Order completely rebounded with Brodie and have continued to honor his legacy strongly as faces after his passing.

9 The Hurt Business

Hurt Business

Many fans view the Hurt Business as the top act on the Raw brand today. Bobby Lashley has reached new heights in the group after having his career take off. The faction didn’t have huge interest from the start for instant success.

Lashley and MVP had chemistry with the latter becoming a manager for the main event player. Shelton Benjamin joining them felt like an odd fit since he was in the 24/7 comedic chase. It was the heel turn of Cedric Alexander betraying Ricochet to join the Hurt Business that showed WWE was going to make them important by adding a fourth man for the numbers advantage.

8 The OGz

The OGz

TNA bringing back the former LAX of Homicide and Hernandez to feud with the newer LAX of Santana and Ortiz felt like an odd idea on paper. Two aging wrestlers gone for years reappearing without much excitement felt odd.

The addition of Eddie Kingston to do the talking for Hernandez and Homicide allowed them to have a new name of The OGz. All three wrestlers made the most of their opportunity for great matches and promos against Santana, Ortiz and Konnan.

7 Riott Squad

Riott Squad

The debut of the Riott Squad was done in the worst possible manner of having the same debut of another faction one night prior. Liv Morgan, Sarah Logan and Ruby Riott led an attack of the three distinctly different personalities.

However, the debut of Absolution saw Paige returning with Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville to lead their own attack on Raw. Riott Squad felt like a cheap version of another new group, who had an established leader. The bigger picture would see the Riott Squad having more chemistry and doing well until WWE broke them up prematurely.

6 Legacy

Legacy

Randy Orton’s heel work was nearing his best when forming the Legacy faction. Unfortunately, the other members looked foolish in the early months before Orton started leading them. Ted DiBiase Jr., Cody Rhodes and Manu tried to win over Orton by doing his bidding.

The lackey mentality felt weak at first until Rhodes and DiBiase started to develop chemistry with Orton.

All three wrestlers would get on the same page to dominate the singles and tag divisions. Legacy thrived to help introduce two new stars while elevating Orton into a top tier heel.

5 Planet Jarrett

Planet Jarrett

TNA had a bad habit of leaning on lazy storytelling of doing the same things we’ve witnessed too many times before. Planet Jarrett started off as another heel group of the top bad guy having a stable to protect him.

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The addition of Gail Kim and her importance added to the overall group. America’s Most Wanted was the top TNA tag team and started to show it again with Kim at their side. Occasional members like Team Canada and Monty Brown made Planet Jarrett the peak of Jeff’s TNA in-ring career.

4 Latino World Order

Latino World Order

WCW sometimes confused the audience by having things without a proper explanation. The Latino World Order was one of those things when Eddie Guerrero formed the group to stick it to Eric Bischoff for not treating the cruiserweights with respect.

Even though it stemmed from issues with Bischoff and the nWo, the LWO also played heels within the cruiserweight division. Things stabilized when Eddie and the rest of the group had classic matches against Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman.

3 Right To Censor

Right To Censor

WWE was getting a bit tongue and cheek with their gimmicks when Right to Censor debuted as a heel faction. Stevie Richards led the group dedicated to cleaning up WWE during the Attitude Era by censoring acts with sexual content, bloody violence or foul language.

The group seemed a bit too forced at first, but they found strong chemistry together. Richards delivered the most underrated work of his career with Ivory, Val Venis and Go(o)dfather all working well together. WWE dropped the concept a bit earlier than anticipated despite getting strong heel heat from the fans rivaling the top villains like Triple H and Kurt Angle.

2 Fortune

Fortune TNA

TNA ran into the problem of trying to recycle any popular act involving an older talent joining the company. Ric Flair managing AJ Styles led to them forming the Fortune faction meant to be a new version of the Four Horsemen.

Unfortunately, TNA also had Immortal as the imitation New World Order and merged them together. Fortune didn’t thrive until splitting from Immortal and turning on Flair. Styles playing a face again with Daniels, Kazarian and Beer Money gave them a more organic run as faces.

1 New Day

New Day Promo

WWE almost completely dropped the ball with New Day when debuting them with a horrible face gimmick. Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods all wanted to work together to elevate their respective careers together.

The fans instantly turned on them for the gospel segments preaching positivity and being forced to play faces without any depth. New Day turning heel was the magical move needed to show their personality by rebelling against the same fans who turned on them. The fans eventually loved New Day as heels to turn them back face as an all-time great WWE faction.