10 WWE Breakups You Forgot Were HEARTBREAKING

10. WWE Splits The IIconics

There's no better way to start things than by looking at genuine emotion bubbling to the surface.

Billie Kay and Peyton Royce were real-life friends who lived the WWE dream. They did everything together, but poor creative choices squashed their potential as a tag team all too quickly. That kind of rubbish was an annoying trait towards the end of Vince McMahon's run in charge. Sometimes, it seemed like the old boss was actively going out of his way to be rotten to his roster.

On the 31 August 2020 Raw, McMahon decided to split The IIconics as part of an angle. A month or so later, Kay and Royce went their separate ways by being placed on different shows during the Draft, and that was that. They must've been emotional about it, but surely no more emotional than they'd been in late August. WWE's cameras captured quite the moment for .com and YouTube.

It showed things sinking in for the attached-at-the-hip pair. They realised that they'd be apart for the first time since putting pen to paper on their WWE contracts, and admitted to feeling scared about the future. At one point, Billie even told Peyton: "I'll miss you", and the pals burst into tears all over again.

Cameras captured real human feeling here, and it was difficult not to get swept up in everything. Remember saying goodbye to your old school mates when everyone went off to college or university? Yeah, that. There's never any guarantee you'll see your best mates again, and that stings.

Everyone could relate to The IIconics as they poured their hearts out.