Awesome / The Undisputed Era

• Takeover: Brooklyn III, and the debuts of Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly, and Adam Cole beating down new NXT Champion Drew McIntyre. Fish and O'Reilly showing up was shocking enough, but Cole jumping the barricade amid a crowd going insane and superkicking McIntyre was a fantastic Establishing Character Moment.
• Winning the very first War Games match in WWE is an impressive achievement. Winning said match as the clear underdogs is even more impressive. Cole, Fish, and O'Reilly were at a distinct disadvantage, due to SANiTY being much crazier and more unpredictable, and the team of the Authors of Pain and Roderick Strong having the size advantage. The Era had six incredibly pissed-off wrestlers gunning for them in a double steel cage, taking chair shots, chain shots, put through tables and thrown into the cage more times than one could count . . . and walked out the victors.
• NXT TakeOver: New Orleans may well be the UE's best night. Coincidentally, the event is considered one of the best events in the entirety of the WWE history, let alone the best in NXT history, which says a lot about the stable itself:
  • First, Adam Cole is able to be victorious in the hellacious opening ladder match to become the first-ever North American champion. It was a stunning affair with Cole hammered hard by others before coming out on top to win.
  • Due to Bobby Fish's broken leg, Cole (nursing injured ribs from the ladder match) has to team with Kyle in a triple threat match for both the tag titles and the Dusty Rhodes Classic trophy. With the Authors of Pain taken down, Pete Dunne hits the Bitter End on O'Reilly and is ready for the pin...at which point Roderick Strong pulls off one of the greatest Face–Heel Turn in NXT history. Kicking Dunne in the head, Strong lays him out, then puts O'Reilly on top of Dunne for the pin. As Cole and O'Reilly react in delighted shock, Strong pulls the UE armband off of Cole and slides it onto his own arm to officially join the group. They join Fish in celebrating all their gold.
• The first taping following NXT TakeOver: New Orleans has Strong taking Fish's place as tag team champion and defending his turn. He then proves his loyalty by attacking Oney Lorcan to help a still-injured Cole make his first NA title defense.
• Kyle and Strong's hellacious match with Moustache Mountain (Tyler Bate and Trent Seven) on an episode of NXT TV in July 2018. It displayed magnificent storytelling with O'Reilly and Strong brutally attacking and injuring Seven's knee to the point where Bate threw in the towel, allowing them to regain the NXT Tag Team Championship. The match was so praised that it earned the brand its fourth five-star match within six months.
• Although they fell short, over the course of 47 minutes, the WarGames Match against the team of War Raiders, Ricochet, and Pete Dunne was an absolute joy to watch, with so many epic moments from both sides.^note For the entire countdown, see here.:
  • A brilliant move from Bobby Fish, as the last man for UE to enter the cage, he took the lock of his own shark cage and proceeded to the other cage, locked it in, and threw the key away! The last man for the other team, Pete Dunne, could do nothing but watch as he waited for the officials to find a way to break open the cage as UE took advantage of the numbers game to wear down the rest of Dunne's teammates. Eventually the officials found bolt cutters to break open the cage, and Dunne proceeded to introduce more weapons inside the cage, evening the odds. Dunne enters the cage, and WarGames officially starts.
  • Adam Cole's last stand. After his teammates had been incapacitated, Cole held his ground for a while, first superkicking Hanson, then giving another one to Ricochet in mid-air. Dunne attempted to performed a Bitter End on Cole after injuring his fingers and toes but Cole countered into a DDT, then gives him a Brain Buster and a Last Shot.
• On NXT's debut on the USA Network, Roderick Strong beats Velveteen Dream for the North American title. Which means that with him, NXT champ Cole and tag champs Fish and O'Reilly, the Undisputed Era hold all three major male NXT championships, completing the prophecy from Josiah Williams' Wrestle & Flow remix which Cole has been repeating for months.
• Kyle O'Reilly running the gauntlet, working his way through Kushida, Bronson Reed, Timothy Thatcher, and Cameron Grimes to win the number one contendership against Finn Bálor.
• Kyle O'Reilly's Takeover 31 match against Finn Bálor wasn't just a staggering 28 minutes of chain and submission wrestling from two of the very best in the game. No, it was a return to both men's New Japan Strong Style roots as many of their strikes landed painfully well - O'Reilly suffered a rib injury and knocked-out teeth, while Balor's jaw was broken in two places.
  • In addition, Undisputed Era did not, notably, fall victim to the wrestling trope of a faction splitting up when the Heir Apparent gets championship opportunities over the Centerpiece (in this case, Adam Cole). The brotherhood held fast, with Cole being one of O'Reilly's most vocal supporters.^note It wasn't until O'Reilly not only failed to beat Finn Bálor twice, but tried to court the champion who beat him into joining the Era, that Cole was set off the deep end and imploded the group out of disgust.
• The Era are 2-2 when it comes to War Games, but they've become nearly synonymous with the match in NXT, as the group features in the men's match every year. No one has more experience inside War Games than the Undisputed Era.

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