The Hurt Syndicate
Allowed to do what they could not in WWE, the trio of MVP, Bobby Lashley, and Shelton Benjamin are collectively and individually multi-dimensional characters. The way WWE books and presents black wrestlers and their characters is a constant source of debate. Their run in WWE was brief, with potential leftover for fantasy booking.
AEW’s booking of factions varies, but the sense of equity, patience, and dynamism that all three luxuriate in suggest there’s plenty more to come—killer athletes who are also savvy businessmen and clever veterans who know how to maximise their worth. To what extent their apparent politicking is real or a fan-created layer of kayfabe, it’s given this third version (if you include TNA’s Beatdown Clan) of the group intrigue.
