Should you look hard enough on AEW’s official website, you will likely have the option to seek out some kind of application where for those who fill it out to a certain quality, you’ll turn out to be a member of The Don Callis Family. “The Invisible Hand” added one more member to his clan at Forbidden Door in the shape of a returning Wardlow, the primary time he’s been seen in AEW since March of last 12 months. Wardlow attacked Prince Nana as Swerve Strickland watched on helplessly as a result of being injured by Kazuchika Okada of their AEW Unified Championship match, and while he celebrated together with his latest members of the family, Konosuke Takeshita arrived to eye up his latest “brother,” or “cousin,” or “half stepbrother twice-removed on the dad’s side” (it is a family, I’m sure there’s some relation).
There are a complete of 11 wrestlers within the family now that Wardlow is involved, but the important thing to creating the group feel like they’ve some kind of direction is without query Takeshita. Callis has been singing the praises of Kyle Fletcher for months, giving Hechicero his own personal introductions in what could only be described as “Tourist Spanish,” and has been calling Kazuchika Okada the perfect big match wrestler in wrestling. Nonetheless, Takeshita is the person who has been by the side of Callis the longest and has reached latest heights as a singles star over the past 12 months, with the G1 Climax victory last week being the head of his profession.
With that said, Takeshita is nearly an afterthought in his own group as a result of Callis having the eye span of a toddler with too many motion figures. He sees a brand new shiny toy to play with and forgets concerning the man who he once put all his money on, which is all eventually constructing to that Takeshita face turn. There’s only a lot that Takeshita can hear Callis say before pondering to himself “Hang on, I’m a G1 Climax winner, a former AEW International Champion, what’s modified?”
That begs the query of who the most important money match can be between. For the time being, it looks like Wardlow is being positioned because the guy to take Takeshita’s spot as “The Alpha” of the group, which is superb, if not a little bit underwhelming considering how far Takeshita has come since Wardlow last wrestled in AEW. Nonetheless, the cash match must be either Takeshita vs. Okada, something that was teased around this time last 12 months but was never executed, or Takeshita vs. Fletcher, a match I can personally see being an AEW World Championship match inside the subsequent few years.
Callis has assembled a murderer’s row of talent in relation to his family, but there’s only so many guys he can add before considered one of them feels hard done by. Takeshita has the most important upside in relation to a face turn, it’s all the way down to Tony Khan to really pull the trigger, something he isn’t been capable of do over the past few years.
Written by Sam Palmer