Fridge / The Undisputed Era

• It may be a coincidence, but The Undisputed Era is composed by Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, and Kyle O'Reilly. They were later joined by a freshly heel-turned Roderick Strong. As in... CFO$, the duo which succeeded Jim Johnston in the WWE music department.
  • Possibly another coincidence, but it was only after CFO$ ceased to be the music producers for WWE that the group split.
• Adam Cole destroying The Undisputed Era once comes off as just Cole being a self-centered asshole and makes complete sense on that level; however, it makes even more sense if you go back to their history in New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Finn Bálor (or Prince Devitt as he was known then) is known as the founder of the Bullet Club, the iconic stable that Adam Cole would come to take over in later years. As such, Cole and all the other BC leaders have always been somewhat in Devitt's shadow. Cole moves to NXT, starts an Expy group of the Bullet Club. Then Balor comes back to NXT after having been long gone by the time Adam arrived, and it looks like his stablemates are getting too close to him, and in a way he's found himself in Devitt's shadow all over again. Of course he'd react badly.

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