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Sarah Rodriguez Even after seven rounds of picks, there are considerably talented individuals who have still not been selected.
Daniel Garcia, Matt Menard, Angelo Parker and Jake Hager would all be likely to join Jericho on Collision, thus keeping the Jericho Appreciation Society alive, while Brandon Cutler, Michael Nakazawa and The Dark Order would be expected to stay put on the Dynamite brand for reasons totally related to Being The Elite.
With Toni Storm joining her Outcast teammates on Saturdays, it would be safe to say Juice Robinson making the jump to that show would be a given, while Powerhouse Hobbs, another young star who benefited from working with Punk, would head there, too.
The House of Black feels like a team that would fit right at home with Collision, but as the AEW World Trios Champions, it would be only a matter of time before Omega and the Bucks challenge them for those titles, so off to Dynamite they go.
Punk once famously uttered, "send Hook," so to Collision the second-generation star heads. Ditto Danhausen, who has established a friendship with Punk that famously saw the former world champion gift him a "holy grail" issue of Spider-Man.
In all, a potential brand split of AEW would be akin to establishing locker rooms full of wrestlers who are either fans or can stand to work with each other. That does not seem like the most effective means to handling backstage drama and pettiness, nor does it feel like a real long-term solution to what amounts to hurt feelings and a seeming inability or, perhaps more accurately, unwillingness to conduct business professionally.
It would create some entertaining television and force fresh matchups, all the while encouraging Khan to continue acquiring talent, but for how long it would be sustainable given the root of the issue is the real question.