The Wingmen quickly became a fan-favorite stable in All Elite Wrestling.
AEW star Peter Avalon is perhaps the face of The Wingmen, a group that consists of Avalon as well as JD Drake, Cezar Bononi and Ryan Nemeth. Avalon recently appeared on the Going Broadway Podcast to explain the formation of the group, which was apparently spearheaded by none other than Christian Cage.
"Working with them is organic, but the group was accidental," Avalon explained. "It was Christian's [Cage] idea to put the four of us together and call us the Wingmen. Putting Cezar and I together was Cody's doing, that happened when I had a match with Cody on TV. Then I had the Pageant Provocation where Cezar came out at the end, so we were an item. I got hurt, my knee, I had a partially torn ACL so I was kind of having to fix that, which was keeping me and Cezar off TV together. Then, Nemeth had just starting appearing next to us and they put JD with Nemeth so you had this opposites thing with me and Cezar still together, I'm still dealing with the knee injury so they don't know what to do.They're keeping me home, I start to bring myself back to TV so I could join Cezar in a managerial role I guess now, just to stay involved. They saw the four of us together backstage and it made sense to put the four of us together as an item and then Christian said, 'put them together, call them the Wingmen.'"
The Wingmen last competed on AEW programming during the 1/15 edition of AEW Dark.
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