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A huge mistake companies make with these Horsemen groups -- except for maybe WWE when it comes to Evolution, which felt self-aware enough to be a faction about the "past, present and future" -- is that they they get four people that vaguely remind you of former Horsemen, and they want them to get over by lifting four fingers. That's instead of having four guys who can get the four fingers over.
If this were Jericho, MJF and FTR, then it might be something. You'd have Le Champion, the hottest rising heel and the best heel tag team. It makes perfect sense. The issue with that is besides Spears, who should be cast out of the group, you'd then probably have to turn the rest of the Inner Circle babyface, which is just too much.
UNLESS you did this as an all-out war between two sides. Tully Blanchard's heels against Arn Anderson's faces. The two old guys would be like generals. It kicks off with Tully wanting to re-live the past and Arn confronting him saying this can't be them anymore. Then a heel gets involved and hurts Arn. This puts him at direct odds with Cody. That's whoever you want to be his big analogue for the blow-off, which should come down to Jericho, MJF and FTR as the main heels. So it'd probably be best for MJF to take out Arn. Or Lance Archer to spin that along, with Tully purchasing his contract off Jake. Then you can move onto MJF later.
But then you'd need to book All Out to be "All Out War" and have two sides up and down the card. Because you can't have Cody going into War Games (or "All Out War" which would be better than "Blood & Guts") and have him on a team with, like, Dustin Rhodes, Shawn Spears and Darby Allin. Where are his buddies in The Elite? They should be helping out Cody. So where is the Inner Circle? It gets so messy, but you'd need to give people fixed programs that result in blow-off matches like the conclusion to the Invasion angle should have been. Dustin can be out of the War Games because he's now got a real personal feud with "Heartless" Shawn Spears, who wants to prove his overall worth to the cause.
That COULD work. You'd probably want the final main event to be the top four faces in the company against the top four heels. So that would be Cody, Jon Moxley and probably Adam Page and Kenny Omega if they're teaming. You could turn Omega and put him on the heel side and do a big singles with Page, but then you'd probably have The Bucks as the tag team, and that...doesn't have as much base.
So you get Mox, Cody, Page & Omega as the final faces representing Arn -- "The Elite Enforcers" or some shit -- going against Blanchard's Four Horsemen of the AEW Apocalypse -- Chris Jericho, Maxwell Jacob Friedman and Formerly the Revival, where the good guys would have to go over, which would mean whoever is your biggest babyface getting the submission from Chris Jericho.
Argh, it's just so complicated and I know they won't do it that way. It'll be campy Cody promos with him doing evil laughs and the Horsemen Revival actually getting cheered because who won't want to see Arn and Tully hug? And then you'll have Shawn Spears and FTR there just having matches with people who never find any unity.
I'd rather they just had Tully manage FTR, to be honest. I'm maybe seeing upside to Cody trusting Shawn Spears after everything, Shawn turning heel on Cody and then MJF leading the group. Eh. It just feels so TNA.
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