Editing Samoa Joe (section)

==== The Opps (2024–present) ====
Following his loss to Strickland, Joe formed a tag team with Hook.<ref name="Mukherjee2024"/> After a short feud with the Premier Athletes, Joe, Hook, and [[Katsuyori Shibata]] defeated [[Chris Jericho]]'s [[The Learning Tree (professional wrestling)|Learning Tree]] stable and [[Jeff Cobb]] in a [[trios match]] at [[Forbidden Door (2024)|Forbidden Door]] in June 2024.<ref name="Flanagan2024"/><ref name="Powell2024"/> In July 2024, Joe was removed from the [[Scotiabank Saddledome]] in an ambulance after losing a "[[Stampede Street Fight]]" to Jericho when Jericho drove him through a wall using a [[forklift]]; the angle was used to explain Joe going on hiatus to film season two of ''[[Twisted Metal (TV series)|Twisted Metal]]''.<ref name="Currier2024"/> 

He returned in January 2025 at [[AEW Maximum Carnage]], saving Hook from an attack by [[The Patriarchy (professional wrestling)|The Patriarchy]].<ref name="Berge" /> In February 2025, the trio of Joe, Hook, and Shibata were named "The Opps."<ref name="Powell2025" /> In April 2025, at [[AEW Spring BreakThru|''Dynamite'': Spring BreakThru]], Joe, Shibata, and [[Powerhouse Hobbs]] (substituting for an injured Hook) defeated the [[Death Riders]] for the [[AEW World Trios Championship]].<ref name="Trios" /> The next night at [[Spring BreakThru|''Collision:'' Spring BreakThru]], Joe inducted Hobbs as a member of The Opps.<ref name="Opps1" /> On May 14 at [[Beach Break (2025)|''Dynamite'': Beach Break]], Joe unsuccessfully challenged Death Riders leader Jon Moxley for the [[AEW World Championship]] in a [[steel cage match]].<ref name="BeachBreak" /> On May 25 at [[Double or Nothing (2025)|Double or Nothing]], The Opps teamed with [[Kenny Omega]], [[Swerve Strickland]], and [[Willow Nightingale]] to defeat the Death Riders and [[The Young Bucks]] in an [[Anarchy in the Arena match]].<ref name="Opps2"/>