10 Things WWE Regrets About Fastlane

10. The Star That Left Them In The Dust

You can't criticise WWE for this decision in itself; you'd have to be the worst d*ckhead on Wrestling Twitter to have predicted in retrospect the trajectory of Cody's career following Fastlane 2015. Yeah, if the Fed keeps burying Runnels like this, they're gonna pay for it, somebody out there definitely claims to have said.

But this, one of several negligent micro decisions made by WWE with approximately zero concerns for its full-time midcard roster, in part led to Stardust's departure - and WWE's macro morale problem. The brothers Runnels had pleaded with WWE - publicly - to face off at WrestleMania. WWE, in response, neglected to script a programme that scripted itself, one boasting rare and organic heft, insofar as 10 minute midcard attractions go. Instead, they had to make do with a Fastlane nothing match, one comprehensively undersold by the commentary team. JBL explained that brothers fight all the time. Bret and Owen Hart did. The Steiners did, he said.

"This seems different," Michael Cole said in response.

Yeah, no sh*t; Owen didn't coat himself with paint and act like an extra in an Andrew Lloyd Webber production, in stark, sh*tty contrast to the real personality he was forced to suppress. Forgettable at the time, and very much regrettable now, it's telling that this happened on the eve of WrestleMania. WrestleMania is where the big boys play, to paraphrase another organisation that learned this to their cost.

So often, WWE slowed the ascent of the full-timers at this ironically-named pay-per-view...