Two members of the AEW roster recently appeared as the guest on AEW Unrestricted. The Dark Order’s Evil Uno and Stu Grayson appeared on the podcast, where the spoke about a number of topics. During the interview with Tony Schiavone and Aubrey Edwards, Grayson talked about a pretty infamous moment during a brawl segment, and mentioned:
“No [they weren’t their students], those were just random extras we had on the show … we would have posted their face. ‘Hey guys, remember that guy who sucks? It was this guy!’ [laughs] But now, that day it was — there were so many bodies. And every time we have extras, so we would take the time to teach them the throne [Uno] would sit on. And, ‘If you can’t do this, don’t do it. You can’t just stand there or choke someone with your foot. You don’t have to throw punches. If there’s something you can’t do, don’t.’ And then like, this whole segment was a catastrophe from beginning to end.”
Evil Uno joined in on the talking, and took some time to speak about what the segment led to. Uno explained:
“So because of that segment, we had a discussion with Tony about integrating a leader character. And so it kind of took a new direction. But to be entirely honest, we genuinely didn’t know who it was for several months. I think — I mean, we personally didn’t know who it was until like three weeks before.”
The Dark Order member continued to talk, and shed light on who the group thought may be their leader. Uno mentioned:
“There was some names floated around, and obviously Brodie was in there but we still didn’t know. Matt Hardy was floated around. I mean, this was going around, but Dr. Luther was floated around originally. There were other people that weren’t directly told to us that I that were floated around as ideas, but it landed on Mr. Brodie Lee, and honestly, that was the best thing that could have happened for us.”
Stu Grayson spoke about some of the AEW factions most recent additions. Grayson talked “recruiting”, and stated:
“Well, the idea was that when we started recruiting, we knew we wouldn’t be able to recruit like — when we said we approached Marko and Jungle Boy, we knew we couldn’t get them right now. Because they were starting their own gimmick, their own storyline. So we knew we would have to approach people that are on the show, but are ultimately like, useless at the moment. So they would bring them over, John and Alex, and they would make them job and job, and they had no purpose. So we said, ‘Hey, we know they can go. We wrestled them once years ago.”
Evil Uno added to Grayson’s comments, and shared his opinion on Silver, as well as Reynolds. Evil told the podcast:
“We wrestled on the same promotions, and so we know of them and we had befriended [them] previously. On the first few shows though, they were losing within seconds to Moxley or losing within seconds to LAX. And so to us as a story beat, if we were going to make winners out of losers, your first few shows you’ve already told people these people are the losers. And we know they’re very talented so when we did our Scientology pitch, they’re the first people I suggested. I said, ‘We can make these guys at least last more than a minute on these shows.’ And honestly, they’re just — they’re very entertaining on their own. And once you give them the platform, here they are today.”
(H/T and transcribed by 411Mania)
