10 Wrestling Duos Who Shared The Most Bizarre Chemistry
Inexplicably great, and inexplicably poor.
Are...are Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch actually an item?
On the July 1 RAW, the pair were interviewed backstage by Charly Caruso. Becky's eyes looked hollow, as if completely uninterested. Rollins, meanwhile, wore a pained expression - think Finn Bálor's forced smile, only without the off-camera shotgun aimed at his temple. He looked like he couldn't wait for some overzealous fan to get the f*ck away from him at an airport.
Perhaps Seth and Becky partake in such depraved, satisfying intercourse that, by the time they are put in front of a camera, there's no urgency or tension, but rather a carefree, shagged-out bliss. A bit like in that episode of Friends. Their interactions aren't awkward, particularly, unless they're doing that searingly awkward thing where they pretend to be uncomfortable, and go "Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft". Perhaps Becky is having second thoughts following Seth's recent Twitter meltdown, and what we are seeing is her apprehension and his bubbling paranoia.
Or perhaps both are legit annoyed that the one remotely modern concept Vince is aware of is "shipping", and are too busy cursing their luck to remember that they get on...
10. AJ Styles & Kevin Owens
This will prove difficult to actually write about, because there's no other word than "inexplicable". Or perhaps "misfire".
The caveat here is that the 2017 programme was weighed down by tacked-on sports entertainment b*llshit. The dumbass referee was only a dumbass to set up a stipulation. AJ Styles trapped his foot in a hole in the announce table because it is apparently better to make a babyface look like a complete goof than to book him bravely losing a bruising fight to put over the heel, who was the performer set to advance further up the card.
But it wasn't so much a programme spoiled as just an all-round underwhelming programme in both sports entertainment plotting and weirdly clunky and boring pro wrestling. Not a reflection on each performer - AJ Styles and his unvarnished approach to the technical dream match is nearing all-time great status, and Kevin Owens is as funny as he is vicious in his character work - the dynamic was simply not very good.
It was as if they struggled to reconcile their own instincts with WWE's production - a strange result, given how well they have acclimatised to and enhanced the company's trademark style.