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CHAOS

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Stable Data

Name:

CHAOS

Promotions:

NJPW

Years:

2009 - 2025

Notes

- Black Tiger verliess das Stable nach seiner Demaskierung am 20.06.2009.
- Mitte April 2010 wurden No Limit, Yujiro Takahashi und Tetsuya Naito, Mitglieder der Gruppierung.
- Karl Anderson und Giant Bernard verliessen die Gruppe am 4. April 2010.
- Seit September 2010 unterstützt Davey Richards das Stable.
- Ende Mai 2011 turnte Takahashi gegen seinen Parner Naito und beförderte ihn somit aus dem Stable.
- Seit Mitte Juni 2011 ist Hideo Saito Mitglied der Gruppierung.
- Seit April 2011 unterstützt auch Rocky Romero CHAOS.
- Als "Supportive Member" des Stable agierten bislang außerdem Chuckie T, Masato Tanaka, OKUMURA, Brian Kendrick, TAJIRI, YAMATO, Val Venis, Negro Casas sowie Dick Togo.
- Am 04.12.2011 wurde Hideo Saito von CHAOS Mitgliedern attackiert und aus der Gruppe hinausgeworfen, nachdem er in einem Match Takashi Iizuka mit dessen eisener Hand niederschlug.
- YOSHI-HASHI und Kazuchika Okada schlossen sich der Gruppe im Januar 2012 nach der Rückkehr aus ihren Auslands Expeditionen an.
- Yujiro Takahashi turnte gegen CHAOS als er Kazuchika Okada am 03.05.2014 während eines Titelmatches attackierte.
- Takashi Iizuka attackierte seinen Partner Toru Yano am 25.05.2014 und verließ das Stable.
- Nachdem er schon seit Mitte 2014 "Supportive Member" gewesen ist, wurde Kazushi Sakuraba im Juli 2015 vollwertiges Mitglied.
- Shinsuke Nakamura verließ New Japan Ende Januar 2016 und somit auch das Stable.
- Nachdem Kazuchika Okada wochenlang versuchte Hirooki Goto davon zu überzeugen dem Stable beizutreten, willigte dieser am 12.03.2016 ein.
- Will Ospreay wurde von Kazuchika Okada im April 2016 aufgenommen.
- SHO und YOH, die Roppongi 3K bilden, wurden am 9. Oktober 2017 Teil des Stable.
- Am 06.01.2018 stellte Okada auf einer Pressekonferenz Jay White als neuestes Mitglied des Stables vor.
- Gedo und Jay White attackierten Kazuchika Okada nach dessen Niederlage gegen Hiroshi Tanahashi am 23.09.18. Jado verließ das Stable zwei Wochen später, als er sich White und Gedo anschloss, um den BULLET CLUB beizutreten.
- Am 25.02.2019 stellte Rocky Romero auf Twitter Mikey Nicholls als ein neues Mitglied des Stables vor.
- Am 30. Juni verließ Robbie Eagles den BULLET CLUB und schloss sich CHAOS an.
- Will Ospreay hinterging Kazuchika Okada am 16.10.2020 und startete seine eigene Fraktion.
- Bei Power Struggle am 16.08.2021 turnte SHO gegen seinen Tag Team-Partner YOH und verließ das Stable.
- Am 10.11.2021 bot Rocky Romero auf dem AEW Twitterkanal seinen Kollegen Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta und Kris Statlander die Mitgliedschaft in CHAOS an, welche alle vier annahmen.
- Das Stable löste sich bei der 53rd Anniversary Show offiziell auf. Alle verbliebenen Mitglieder schlossen sich der Hontai Unit an.

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Number of comments: 34

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Average rating: 8.28 [178]

Average rating in 2026: 8.00 [1]

Average rating in 2025: 8.13 [8]

Average rating in 2024: 7.33 [18]

Average rating in 2023: 7.76 [25]

Average rating in 2022: 8.04 [28]

Average rating in 2021: 7.22 [18]

Average rating in 2020: 8.47 [17]

Average rating in 2019: 8.30 [10]

Average rating in 2018: 8.57 [7]

Average rating in 2017: 9.37 [19]

Average rating in 2016: 9.50 [8]

Average rating in 2015: 9.50 [14]

Average rating in 2014: 9.00 [5]

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Trombek Kushinika wrote on 08.01.2025:

[5.0] "An ok stable but really nothing special. This is especially so since the departure of its leader Okada. Since Okada left they have just kind of limped on and whilst they have always been a fairly harmless babyface stable now they seem even more so. Not quite sure what their reason for being is or their motivations etc... other than just being mates?"

mendesceltic wrote on 17.09.2024:

[5.0] "Well, first of all, this stable was way better years ago but, unfortunately, I'll rate them considering what we have now. Maybe it's because they are a babyface stable with so many members, but they just don't "click" like LIJ, War Dogs or TMDK. And talking about the members, who are the ones really on the stable besides HASHI, Goto and Ishii? I mean, who is the leader after Okada left? This stable feels random when we compare them with other groups, so why not disband and make something different? I really like the wrestlers involved, but I don't see the point of CHAOS existence right now."

WrestlingGuru wrote on 26.05.2024:

[8.0] "To me the weakest of New Japan's big stables, might be because it's a face stable and they never work as well as heel stables. A lot of talent here but they just don't feel like a team."

DENDY wrote on 19.05.2024:

[5.0] "CHAOS was at one point the pinnacle of stables in wrestling, unfortunately that was almost 10 years ago now and it has slowly degraded into Hontai 2.0. CHAOS gets some points for its early years, but current day CHAOS composed of somewhere between 4 and 10 workers of varying and often misaligned interests seems a far cry away from ever being anything of note again."

cosmik debris wrote on 10.01.2024:

[3.0] "what is chaos? what is its purpose? do they ever act as a faction outside of multimen matches? what is its gimmick? what advantages does it bring to a wrestler joining them? is a wrestler's affiliation to the stable ever addressed in a meaningful context? all questions with no answers. absolutely pointless stable that just serves to sell some more merch"

danzitorock wrote on 17.11.2023:

[8.0] "This is a classic but really messy several times faction. CHAOS didn't really felt or worked like a stable a lot of times and doesn't have the strong identity that other stables in New Japan have. The beginning was great and then after Nakamura left kind of became a designation to call a bunch of face people by one name."

SoaKas wrote on 27.10.2023:

[5.0] "I fucking love New Japan and I even love most of the guys in that faction but holy shit it's really the worst stable ever. NONE of those guys have really had a group-like interaction in YEARS. At this point they're nearly the same as Hontai but even they are better. Compare them with LIJ, UE, TMDK, J5G and you realise how bad they've become"

TheEnigmatic1 wrote on 20.08.2023:

[5.0] "CHAOS is a mess we have had over a dozen members come through Chaos at some point and I say they need to clean out their closet, Keep Okada, ISHII, Goto, YOSHI-HASHI and some of their juniors and you have a solid stable, But now I have no clue who else is in that stable, Is Lio Rush still in it? You have the best friends from AEW in it i guess? it is just a generic babyface stable with no real meaning as to why they are all together. They should either disband or get rid of some members because it is one big Cluster F."

mayebzach wrote on 16.08.2023:

[7.0] "A faction that as of 2023 doesn't really feel like it serves much of a purpose anymore. 15 years is a lot time in wrestling, but the last 5-7 years of this faction in particular have felt really stale. You had the Jay White inclusion in 2018 which just made Okada look like an idiot, and then the revolving door of guys ever since the pandemic. NJPW could do with a freshening up of their stables."

gargoylesmain wrote on 29.05.2023:

[5.0] "Kinda ill-fitting to call this a faction. It's more a defacto lumping of wrestlers who don't really fit anywhere else. CHAOS is never really treated as a cohesive unit, with some members that have little to nothing to do with each other."

crs285 wrote on 21.11.2022:

[8.0] "Good faction because of how it is used and booked. Under Nakamura as heels was the top NJPW heels until Bullet Club forced the group to go face and the new leader Okada emerged. Okada, Ishii, Goto all starred in while being kept strong by using the other members taking falls most of the time."

PavelDragunov wrote on 30.09.2022:

[7.0] "A classic grouping in Japan where everything revolves around the main ace. Kazuchika Okada is probably the only one who can still keep this team together, most often this tandem serves as a transitional springboard for fighters who are very likely to go into opposition to Okada and now we are faced with this tradition more and more often. As a result, only Okada himself or the fighters for whom there are no special plans in the future remain in it. Rather, this grouping serves as an opposition to all the evil in the company, but it is the good that most often represents the originals of NJPW from a long time ago."

Dogo763 wrote on 27.06.2022:

[7.0] "A top faction in New Japan that's kind of in a weird spot right now. Okada is the ace per usual but the faction isn't really the focus at the moment. Even the American side of CHAOS is kind of in a similar situation."

UltraNano54 wrote on 16.06.2022:

[5.0] "Kind of a pointless faction. It seems like just a cheap excuse to sell t shirts with the CHAOS branding on them. It seems like a third of the NJPW roster is in CHAOS."

Luna100 wrote on 29.08.2021:

[2.0] "Their is no point to them any more as they don't even feud with Main Unit anymore, in fact they regularly team with so much, that they put Eagles and Tiger Mask together for the Junior Tag Tournament and I didn't realise that Eagles was in Chaos."

seriousbusiness wrote on 15.01.2021:

[4.0] "What is even the point of this stable anymore? It used to be menacing under heel Nakamura, even after he started going tweener, the faction still felt like a dominant faction of talented guys. After Nakamura left though it's literally just become Okada and friends. Add on that they regularly team with the neutral guys which completely defeats the purpose of this stable in the first place? Just bury this carcass of a faction already."

medouse wrote on 13.12.2020:

[8.0] "My rating is based on their whole career. They used to be 10/10 now they are pretty much only a half of that scoring, so let's just give them an average score - 8/10. CHAOS is still one of the most recognizable group in professional wrestling and one of the strongest factions in NJPW. However, they lost many great talents and now they seem to be standing in place. They don't do anything exciting anymore. Other factions take the advantage of them and CHAOS is pretty much jobbing now. Anyways, great faction and great piece of history."

EUJBFTY wrote on 23.07.2020:

[4.0] "I barely even consider them a faction in 2020. Unlike the other factions, CHAOS has no sense of cohesion between them and is more of a assortment of random babyfaces more than an actual faction. You could make the case that they have some of the best wrestlers (which is true), but for every Kazuchika Okada and Tomohiro Ishii, there's a Mikey Nicholls and Yoshi Hashi."

Ma Stump Puller wrote on 14.04.2020:

[7.0] "Were a LOT better when they were heels under Shinsuke and Okada. Now they barely are a thing anymore and don't feel like a stable at all apart from when Toru Yano gets them all together to do another DVD and forgettable tag matches."

Causeahazard wrote on 24.03.2020:

[6.0] "This I would not call a stable, like others have said it's the generic babyface stable, it doesn't have any actual tag teams in it other than R3K I believe"

NEVERoverweightChampion wrote on 06.07.2019:

[8.0] "A faction with a lot of great wrestlers but it never felt the same after its founder Shinsuke Nakamura left. The faction was perfect with The King Of Strong Style and The Rainmaker on top. It's still a very good faction but it has lost some of its magic and is maybe too open for everyone these days. At least the last addition (Robbie Eagles) has been done with a story behind it."

PuroresuLover wrote on 13.05.2019:

[8.0] "CHAOS is my favorite Stable in NJPW for a reason: They have great workers like Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto, Will Ospreay, Roppongi 3K, YOSHI-HASHI and Kazuchika Okada. Their dominance in the beginning of 2018 was awesome alongside with their feud with Los Ingobernables de Japon! CHAOS is the most consistent Stable in NJPW and no one can deny that."

ohnoes wrote on 09.02.2019:

[6.0] "While CHAOS is full of excellent talent and has some interesting history from its beginning, I haven't really ever been excited for CHAOS as a stable. I'm not sure what kind of statement current CHAOS wants to make, or what goals they set, or what their purpose is. Maybe it's to keep selling merch with the logo on it? Maybe so Yano can keep selling DVDs? If CHAOS were to disband, I'm pretty sure it'd be business as usual and forgotten about in relatively short time. That is, unless, the 'mole' storyline is brought back, which could make for some exciting new developments as a stable."

arrancar wrote on 28.11.2017:

[7.0] "CHAOS has some of the best wrestlers in the world. Okada is already the absolute GOAT, Ishii and Ospreay are easy calls for top 10 wrestlers in the world, and Sho and Yoh are an exciting up and coming junior team. However, as a stable they aren't very cohesive. It's relatively unclear what reason they have to join together and what reason they hang out. They don't exactly have similar wrestling styles or mentalities, so even though they may appear on the same side of the ring it is often unclear why that is so. Undoubtedly they have some great matches, especially against LIJ. It's simply that lack of obvious cohesion that holds me back from considering them a truly great stable. There's also of course the issue of the usual uninteresting members such as Yoshi-Hashi, Yano, Jado, Gedo, and even to some extent Goto. They can often hold back the stable during the multi-man tag matches by being so incomparable to the skill of the previously mentioned CHAOS members. Were some of the deadweight cut-out and a proper stable direction established then I could definitely appreciate CHAOS a lot more. As it stands though the stable is merely a good stable, albeit with some of the greatest wrestlers in the world"

Luv all wrestling wrote on 19.06.2016:

[9.0] "CHAOS is a pretty ingenious idea by NJPW. CHAOS is a coalition of wrestlers teaming together, which gives them a reason to team together along with explaining character motivation being of respect between stablemates in a match or being a heel against none stablemates, CHAOS is great for story telling"

sevendaughters wrote on 27.04.2014:

[10.0] "The greatest stable. As of writing they have the IWGP Heavy champ, the IWGP IC champ and the NEVER title. They have the bookers of NJPW. They have a great comedy heel tag team. They have entertainers in every spot. Who knows what their motivation is or where they'll go. If they keep together, I'll always shout for CHAOS."

apc24 wrote on 03.03.2014:

[9.0] "This long time stable of New Japan has some of the most over wrestlers in the industry and some of the biggest shit bags in the industry of wrestling. Starting in 2009, Shinsuke Nakamura leads this large stable that plays the prominent bad guys of Puroresu."