The wrestling world sadly lost Brodie Lee in December 2020 due to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. After leaving WWE, where he worked as Luke Harper, in 2019, Lee signed with AEW and became the leader of the Dark Order.
The Dark Order rose to prominence under Lee's guidance with Stu Grayson, Evil Uno, John Silver, Alex Reynolds, Preston Vance, and Alan Angels becoming more featured on television.
Speaking to Straight Talk Wrestling, Grayson reflected on his relationship with Brodie.
"When you talk about his career, he had a pretty solid career, even though he did not accomplish as much as he should have, given his personality, his skills, and everything. But for me, everything Brodie-related, my relationship with him was based off pro wrestling for the longest time. I met him in CHIKARA when I was 18, and then joining AEW with Dark Order, but everything that really mattered for Brody was his family. Knowing that now his kids are…they’re great kids, love these kids, that Amanda’s doing well, that the whole family is doing good, that’s really all that matters. When it comes down to wrestling, I feel like we only got to scratch the surface of what he could have done, what Dark Order could have done with him. It feels like we just couldn’t get any of the good stuff. I think everything good was coming up, and it was taken away from us, so he’s got a pretty solid career, but you barely got to see a fraction of who Brodie Lee really was, as a man and as a wrestler. People like Brodie, absolutely everyone universally speaks highly of them. I have never met another human being where even the people who were not his friend, even competitors, people who did not like, were like, ‘He was the most genuine, best person I’ve ever met. We were bitter enemies, but I loved being his enemy.’ You know what I mean? He was that actual, that dude where I’ve never heard anyone say anything bad about him, and that’s because there was nothing bad to say about him. He was the man," he said.
Following Brodie's passing, Dark Order was used less prominently on television and Grayson ended up departing AEW in May 2022.
He returned in March 2023, but was rarely on TV and left again in April 2024.
Elsewhere during the interview, Grayson commented on interest from other promotions. You can find his full comments by clicking here.
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