History Wrestling / TheUndisputedEra

However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continued to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal. Both men would later sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling; individually at first, until Cole acknowledged Fish as an 'old friend' of his to Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. Another one would soon follow: after departing NXT in December 2021, O'Reilly made his AEW debut by assisting Fish and Cole during a match the latter had with Orange Cassidy. Despite a seemingly rocky start to highlight that the last interaction between Cole and O'Reilly wasn't exactly friendly, it still marked the very first time all 3 founding members of the Undisputed Era not only joined forces, but did so outside of their old stomping grounds to boot. O'Reilly and Fish became associates of Wrestling/TheElite through their reunion with Cole, with their sub-faction now rebranded as "The Undisputed Elite", before Fish was released from the company and both O'Reilly and Cole became sidelined due to injuries. Cole later reunited with Roderick Strong as part of "The Undisputed Kingdom", along with Cole's former ROH stablemates in The Kingdom faction.

However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continued to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal. Both men would later sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling; individually at first, until Cole acknowledged Fish as an 'old friend' of his to Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. Another one would soon follow: after departing NXT in December 2021, O'Reilly made his AEW debut by assisting Fish and Cole during a match the latter had with Orange Cassidy. Despite a seemingly rocky start to highlight that the last interaction between Cole and O'Reilly wasn't exactly friendly, it still marked the very first time all 3 founding members of the Undisputed Era not only joined forces, but did so outside of their old stomping grounds to boot. O'Reilly and Fish have now become associates of Wrestling/TheElite through their reunion with Cole, with their sub-faction now rebranded as "The Undisputed Elite".

** Bay Bay has learned not only from his own prior mistakes with both BC Elite and The Undisputed Era, but from those of The Elite as well in managing The Club, and he's clearly had some help from King Switch himself along the way. In the end, Cole and [=reDRagon=] betrayed The Bucks, while still being referred to as a good friend by Jay White, hinting that the plan all along was to align with Bullet Club while screwing over The Elite. However, injuries to Cole and O'Reilly, Fish's departure from the company, and The Elite's two-month suspension due to an unsanctioned kerfuffle with CM Punk, and then Jay White's departure from NJPW, all in real life, ultimately preempted whatever was to come.

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->And that, Tropers, is undisputed.

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** Bay Bay has learned not only from his own prior mistakes with both BC Elite and The Undisputed Era, but from those of The Elite as well in managing The Club, and he's clearly had some help from King Switch himself along the way. In the end, Cole and [=reDRagon=] betrayed The Bucks, while still being referred to as a good friend by Jay White, hinting that the plan all along was to align with Bullet Club while screwing over The Elite. However, injuries to Cole and O'Reilly, Fish's departure from the company, and The Elite's two-month suspension due to an unsanctioned kerfuffle with CM Punk, all in real life, put a pause on whatever was to come, as well as preempted the Undisputed trio's full involvement even if Adam and Jay resume their plans.

** Bay Bay has learned not only from his own prior mistakes with both BC Elite and The Undisputed Era, but from those of The Elite as well in managing The Club, and he's clearly had some help from King Switch himself along the way...

## A bond has been established between Cole and the post-Elite Bullet Club leader Jay White, who had successfully supplanted Omega for the position in 2018 and who later developed a whole catchphrase ''speech'' closing out with "My New Era," later "Still My Era." This bond would be directly responsible for White's appearances in AEW attacking members of AEW's Wrestling/{{CHAOS}} branch The Best Friends, who Cole and others were feuding with at the time, as well as specifically shouting out Cole and The ''Undisputed'' Elite[[labelnote:*]]as opposed to ''Super'' Elite, which means this DOES NOT include Kenny and The Bucks[[/labenote]], going so far as to modify said closing phrase to "Still ''Our'' Era" to affirm his solidarity with Cole.

## A bond has been established between Cole and the post-Elite Bullet Club leader Jay White, who had successfully supplanted Omega for the position in 2018 and who later developed a whole catchphrase ''speech'' closing out with "My New Era," later "Still My Era." This bond would be directly responsible for White's appearances in AEW attacking members of AEW's Wrestling/{{CHAOS}} branch The Best Friends, who Cole and others were feuding with at the time, as well as specifically shouting out Cole and The ''Undisputed'' Elite[[note]]as opposed to Kenny and The Bucks' ''Super'' Elite[[/note]], going so far as to modify said closing phrase to "Still ''Our'' Era."

## Cole would integrate Fish and O'Reilly into the fold as his cohorts, with the aforementioned unease maintaining the continuity of The Era's breakup to show that they're all willing to sort through their differences to work towards ''something'' together again less than a year after just having a blood feud.

## A bond has been established between Cole and the post-Elite Bullet Club leader Jay White, who had successfully supplanted Omega for the position in 2018 and who later developed a whole catchphrase ''speech'' closing out with "My New Era," later "Still My Era." This bond would be directly responsible for White's appearances in AEW attacking members of AEW's Wrestling/{{CHAOS}} branch The Best Friends, who Cole and others were feuding with at the time, as well as specifically shouting out Cole and The ''Undisputed'' Elite, going so far as to modify said closing phrase to "Still ''Our'' Era."

** Combined with {{Foreshadowing}}: Prior to forming The Undisputed Era, Cole was a member of Bullet Club and the fourth man in The Elite's "Dream Team" combination before they kicked him out for attempting to usurp Kenny Omega's role as the leader in blatantly comical fashion. During the time The Era's reign over NXT coincided with the launch of AEW, Cole's girlfriend Wrestling/BrittBaker would attend NXT [=TakeOver: WarGames=], and the shot of her covering her mouth in worry when Cole took a massive bump in the titular main event [=WarGames=] match became a memetic crossover cameo. She also called out The Young Bucks on ''WebVideo/BeingTheElite'' for "murdering" her boyfriend to send him packing. In AEW, following a mock "seance" by The Elite teasing his return, Cole promptly rejoined them and reaffirmed Omega as the greatest wrestler on the planet. However, immediately following the fall of Kenny's championship reign after being beaten by former teammate Adam Page and forced out of action via multiple injuries, Adam Cole's machinations began to manifest in much more effective fashion:

## A bond has been established between Cole and the post-Elite Bullet Club leader Jay White, who had successfully supplanted Omega for the position in 2018 and who later developed a whole catchphrase ''speech'' closing out with "My New Era," later "Still My Era." This bond would be directly responsible for White's appearances in AEW attacking members of AEW's Wrestling/{{CHAOS}} branch The Best Friends, who Cole and others were feuding with at the time, as well as specifically shouting out Cole and The Undisputed Elite, going so far as to modify said closing phrase to "Still ''Our'' Era."

** Prior to forming The Undisputed Era, Cole was a member of Bullet Club and the fourth man in The Elite's "Dream Team" combination before they kicked him out for attempting to usurp Kenny Omega's role as the leader in blatantly comical fashion. During the time The Era's reign over NXT coincided with the launch of AEW, Cole's girlfriend Wrestling/BrittBaker would attend NXT [=TakeOver: WarGames=], and the shot of her covering her mouth in worry when Cole took a massive bump in the titular main event [=WarGames=] match became a memetic crossover cameo. She also called out The Young Bucks on ''WebVideo/BeingTheElite'' for "murdering" her boyfriend to send him packing. In AEW, following a mock "seance" by The Elite teasing his return, Cole promptly rejoined them and reaffirmed Omega as the greatest wrestler on the planet. However, immediately following the fall of Kenny's championship reign after being beaten by former teammate Adam Page and forced out of action via multiple injuries, Cole would integrate Fish and O'Reilly into the fold as his cohorts. Baker and Cole have worked together on more than one occasion, even once interrupting Cole and The Bucks' cheek-kisses routine to instead engage in PDA with each other. A bond has now been established between Cole and the post-Elite Bullet Club leader Jay White, who had successfully supplanted Omega for the position in 2018 and who later developed a whole catchphrase ''speech'' closing out with "MY NEW ERA", later "STILL MY ERA"; said bond would be directly responsible for White's appearances in AEW attacking the team's enemies, with every instance being to Cole's benefit and White's interactions and acknowledgments specifically going to Cole and The Undisputed Elite. Bay Bay has clearly learned not only from his own prior mistakes, but from those of The Elite as well.

* CanonWelding: The Undisputed Era's breakup is given an indirect nod in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as Adam Cole remains (uneasy) friends with Bobby Fish, a reference to how Fish was out with an injury when Cole turned on the remainder of the faction to disband it, meaning Cole never directly betrayed Fish. When O'Reilly's OddCouple duo with Von Wagner fell apart after a loss and O'Reilly intercepted Wagner's attempted betrayal, he would flash the UE symbol, indicating his desire to return to the group even before leaving NXT and WWE for good. Upon O'Reilly's debut in AEW and rejoining Cole and Fish as a trio, O'Reilly and Cole were shown to be incredibly uneasy around each other and noted that they had issues to iron out, a nod to how their own rivalry formed the basis for the UE's demise.

* CanonWelding: The Undisputed Era's breakup is given an indirect nod in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as Adam Cole remains (uneasy) friends with Bobby Fish, a reference to how Fish was out with an injury when Cole turned on the remainder of the faction to disband it, meaning Cole never directly betrayed Fish. When O'Reilly later debuted for AEW, he was shown to be incredibly uneasy around Cole (who reciprocated the uneasiness) - a nod to how their own rivalry formed the basis for the UE's demise.

* PowerStable: Initially a PowerTrio, they initially seemed like they would go from PowerTrio to this when pictures of them alongside Taynara Conti surfaced. Turns out Cole deceived her about something, and she later linked up with two of her countrymen in the developmental system, so that wasn't to be, but after Wrestling/RoderickStrong threw in his lot with them, they have become a four-man army.

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However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continued to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal. Both men would later sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling; individually at first, until Cole acknowledged Fish as an ‘old friend’ of his to Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. Another one would soon follow: after departing NXT in December 2021, O'Reilly made his AEW debut by assisting Fish and Cole during a match the latter had with Orange Cassidy. Despite a seemingly rocky start to highlight that the last interaction between Cole and O'Reilly wasn't exactly friendly, it still marked the very first time all 3 founding members of the Undisputed Era not only joined forces, but did so outside of their old stomping grounds to boot. O'Reilly and Fish have now become associates of Wrestling/TheElite through their reunion with Cole, with their sub-faction now rebranded as "The Paragon".

However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continued to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal. Both men would later sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling; individually at first, until Cole acknowledged Fish as an ‘old friend’ of his to Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. Another one would soon follow: after departing NXT in December 2021, O'Reilly made his AEW debut by assisting Fish and Cole during a match the latter had with Orange Cassidy. Despite a seemingly rocky start to highlight that the last interaction between Cole and O'Reilly wasn't exactly friendly, it still marked the very first time all 3 founding members of the Undisputed Era not only joined forces, but did so outside of their old stomping grounds to boot. O'Reilly and Fish have now become associates of The Elite through their reunion with Cole, with their sub-faction now rebranded as "The Paragon".

* RunningGag: Strong's inability to do the stable hand sign with the other three in interviews and promo videos. He eventually got the hang of it.

However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continued to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal. Both men would later sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling; individually at first, until Cole acknowledged Fish as an ‘old friend’ of his to Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. Another one would soon follow: after departing NXT in December 2021, O'Reilly made his AEW debut by assisting Fish and Cole during a match the latter had with Orange Cassidy. Despite a seemingly rocky start to highlight that the last interaction between Cole and O'Reilly wasn't exactly friendly, it still marked the very first time all 3 founding members of the Undisputed Era not only joined forces, but did so outside of their old stomping grounds to boot.

The Undisputed Era was a ProfessionalWrestling PowerStable composed of Wrestling/AdamCole (Austin Jenkins), Wrestling/BobbyFish (Robert Anthony Fish), Wrestling/KyleOReilly (Kyle Greenwood) and Wrestling/RoderickStrong (Christopher Lindsey), performing in the ''[[Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} NXT]]'' brand of Wrestling/{{WWE}}.

* CanonWelding: The Undisputed Era's breakup is given an indirect nod in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling as Adam Cole remains (uneasy) friends with Bobby Fish, a reference to how Fish was out with an injury when Cole turned on the remainder of the faction to disband it, meaning Cole never directly betrayed Fish.

However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continued to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal. Both men would later sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling; individually at first, until Cole acknowledged Fish as an ‘old friend’ of his to Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. With Kyle O’Reilly’s future in the air as his NXT contract expires in December 2021, the story of the Undisputed Era may yet continue...

However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continue to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal; both men would later sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling; individually at first, until Cole acknowledged Fish as an ‘old friend’ of his to Wrestling/TheYoungBucks. With Kyle O’Riley’s future in the air as his NXT contract expires in December 2021, the story of the Undisputed Era may yet continue...

However, eventually the EndOfAnEra loomed, as Adam Cole turned heel on his friends with a series of Superkicks that left Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong feeling betrayed and the group in tatters. Bobby Fish was out with a tricep injury, so he missed this, and by the time he got back the stable was defunct. All four competitors continue to wrestle for NXT as singles wrestlers until August 2021, when Fish was released and Cole allowed his contract to run out without signing a new deal; both men would later individually sign with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling.