10 Wrestling Moments That Exploited Nostalgia (And Failed)

10. The Ascension Get Buried

It's the principle of the thing.

The Ascension aren't likely to tear it up in PWG or New Japan in a bid to prove or reinvent themselves. They were limited workers, subpar in a lost generation, elevated to mild success in a winning act. A literal winning act; that they dominated a complete lack of competition in the embryonic, good NXT got them sort of over. They were on the main roster buried into the same tectonic plate that split Diamond Dallas Page's ass in half because they either worked JBL into a shoot, or the story was they had worked JBL into a shoot. It was all deeply weird and regrettable stuff.

As the Ascension mocked the nWo in a accordance with the script, JBL send these poor pricks to Wrestler's Court. On live television. "How dare you compare yourself to the Road Warriors!" he bellowed, and what do you say in response to that? "Take it up with Ryan Ward, you mark"?

JBL soaped up his arm and smashed Viktor right in his bastard face.

"Welcome to the wasteland, ya sacks of sh*t!"