Two of All Elite Wrestling’s fastest rising stars in Evil Uno and Stu Grayson of Dark Order recently spoke with Ottawa Sun about the promotion asking them to change their team name and being worried of AEW cutting them due to travel restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic between Canada and the U.S.
Evil Uno and Stu Grayson of Dark Order were originally named the Super Smash Brothers, but AEW didn’t want them to use that name and they wanted them to come up with a new name. Uno and Grayson said that they started pitching ideas to each other and they sent five names to the Young Bucks and were told by the Young Bucks that they liked the Dark Order the most.
This is what Evil Uno and Stu Grayson said:
“They didn’t want to use [the Super Smash Brothers] name for obvious reasons; it’s the property of Nintendo.” “They wanted us to come up with a new name. Uno and I got on the phone, we started pitching ideas to each other. We had, I think, five names, we sent them to The Young Bucks and they told us The Dark Order was the one they liked the most.”
Uno and Stu Grayson then talked about being worried of All Elite Wrestling cutting them due to travel restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic between Canada and the U.S.
This is what Evil Uno and Stu Grayson said:
“We travel every two weeks [to Florida] and quarantine in between.” “We don’t leave our houses; that’s a stress. There was a time where it was very uncertain for both of us because we couldn’t make it to work for several months, so we were at risk of being cut. We didn’t know the scope of what COVID would be like.
We also didn’t know what kind of financial hit AEW was going to take. It was stressful at first, but now it feels like the norm. We have deep roots in this area, we helped build up this whole wrestling scene over the past 15 years. We’re still within the decision phase.”
