8 Dropped Ideas That Could've Helped WWE Ratings
7. FTRKO
Only a matter of weeks ago, wrestling fans were lapping up the heel antics of the recently formed FTRKO trio of Randy Orton, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder. Sadly, that burgeoning stable was brought to a halt after Randal Keith was moved to Monday Night Raw during the recent WWE Draft, with The Revival remaining on SmackDown.
Combining Orton’s third generation veteran status with The Revival’s old school schtick seemed like a perfect meshing together of talents who just looked right together. Orton was clearly the main event top tier singles act – helped out by the 13 World Championships to his name – and then you had The Revival tag team who are the very best tandem in the game right now.
What could go wrong, right?
Well, sadly WWE decided that FTRKO had no future and quickly took the legs from under the trio by separating The Viper and The Revival during the aforementioned WWE Draft.
Since dropping the idea of FTRKO, last week it was revealed that Randy Orton even met with Vince McMahon to plead with him to keep the stable together. Unfortunately for Randy and wrestling fans, Vinny Mac was adamant that FTRKO was no more.
With WWE ratings in the toilet right now, you'd have thought McMahon might have been open to having a genuinely top level heel stable causing chaos and helping shine up some babyfaces. But, well, Vince...