10 WWE Booking Steps For Jason Jordan As Kurt Angle's Son
Heir Jordan.
American Alpha may be doomed, but an American hero has surprisingly been reunited with his estranged son.
The Olympic Gold Medallist's supposedly devastating secret was revealed this week, as Monday Night Raw played host to the public conjugation of Kurt Angle and Jason Jordan.
As Angle explained, Jordan was the product of brief college relationship, born and put up for adoption without any of Kurt's prior knowledge. On a WWE Network special following the flagship show, they fleshed out the story, explaining that the former Tag Team Champion had tracked down his birth mother through a private investigator before discovering with some trepidation that the Raw General Manager was indeed his biological dad.
In the chat, host Renee Young alluded to their new-found personal relationship perhaps interfering with a professional one. The two laughed off her line of questioning about if Jordan would be getting an enhanced 'push' as a result of the news, but in real terms, an opportunity has appeared to reboot the struggling SmackDown Live! star.
A dynamic and gifted performer that took longer-than-average to find his groove in NXT, the next run of Jordan's career will the the trickiest. But if booked with even-handed levels of drama, poise and common sense, his next few years could be as potentially be as successful as his storyline father's first.
10. New Beginning
A move away from SmackDown Live! doesn't just represent the end of Jason Jordan's American Alpha partnership with Chad Gable. It drops the former amateur standout back into the shark-infested waters of a singles division he struggled to break free from in NXT.
Before Gable arrived on the developmental brand, Jordan was already a victim of a failed tag team with Tye Dillinger, and had experienced his fair share of professional failures on jobbing duties at Full Sail before then.
Whilst the Alphas weren't experiencing anywhere near the success on Tuesday Nights as they had done before their main roster call-ups, their in-ring capabilities were readily apparent, and Jordan will require a much bigger platform to get himself over through these abilities alone whilst he hones his limited microphone prowess.
Luckily for him, Raw is bursting with beatable characters to kick off his run. A string of comprehensive victories over the likes of Elias Samson, Darren Young, Heath Slater, R-Truth and Rhyno will at least give him some Michael Cole-endorsed momentum leading into his first pay-per-view clash.
Paired with Goldust, 'The Bizarre One' will express fury at what he'll consider to be biased treatment towards Jordan from his General Manager father. Oblivious to the irony, the fellow second generation star has both the personality and the in-ring nous to afford his younger foe an impressive high profile victory in his supercard singles debut.