AEW: 5 possible candidates who could be The Dark Order’s Exalted One

3. Matt Hardy

The Broken One’s WWE tenure seems to be coming to an end after a hellacious beat down at the hands of the legend killer Randy Orton. But that may not be a bad thing. Barring an initial run with the old Bray Wyatt as the Woken Warriors and a brief return to the Hardy Compound.

Hardy’s immense creativity has not been actively nurtured or used by the wrestling behemoth from Connecticut and realistically only a few years left on his in-ring career. The ability to tell stories the way he wants to tell them might be all he needs to part ways with the biggest wrestling company in the world.

If he does leave and appears in AEW instead of a company that he has a history with, it would make sense to inject him into a storyline that has already gotten underway. To put him in a position to shape and mold a narrative to his creative whims and put himself in a position where in-ring working is not necessary for the success of the character.

Allow him to age gracefully into his role and have the ending to his legendary career that he deserves, before moving to a backstage producer role helping nourish talents like Darby Allin and Kris Statlander who’s characters inject some oddity and quirkiness into the otherwise fairly down to earth product.