5 Factions WWE should form in order to shake things up in 2019

#2 Ironstand

Lashley and Rush could form the next ruthless faction in WWE

For years, New Japan Pro Wrestling has shown a lot of faith in their factions and one faction that stood out head and shoulders above the rest in their own unique style is non-other than Suzuki Gun.

Suzuki Gun was initially formed in 2011 by non-other than the menacing Minoru Suzuki, who alongside the likes of Taichi, Taka Michinoku, Takashi Sugiura, and Yoshihiro Takayama dominated the Land of The Rising Sun in promotions such as NJPW, NOAH, and even have made their mark on British territory as part of RevPro UK in recent months.

Much like NJPW, WWE also has all the right elements in the world to form a menacing and ruthless faction like Suzuki Gun. A group of bloodthirsty hounds who would just show up and beat up everyone who dared to step in their path.

In order to successfully form this faction, WWE needs to make sure that they get a proper leader for the group and a proper mouthpiece as well and in order to do so, we could very well have Bobby Lashley and Lio Rush as the first two initial members of the group.

Now Lashley doesn't necessarily have to be the leader of the group but it's definitely good enough for a start.

Next, we could have AOP and Drake Maverick in the faction, Akam and Rezar are two of the scariest men in WWE today and having them as the group's only dominant tag team could work pretty well.

From there onwards, we could well and truly add more hard hitters to the group and therefore bringing in NXT's Kassius Ohno will benefit both the faction and Ohno as well.

And finally, adding Shelton Benjamin to the faction would do wonders for the group as well and maybe Benjamin could bring along someone like Aiden English from SmackDown Live to have him join the faction as well.

Also, I'm pretty sure WWE is capable of coming up with a better name than Ironstand!

Members: Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley, Lio Rush, Akam, Rezar, Drake Maverick, and Aiden English

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