10 WWE Wrestlers You Can’t Believe Got Over

10. The Authors Of Pain

In 2017, the true heels are those who fail to deliver a good match. The Authors of Pain, inexperienced and dangerous, were such failures just this time last year that they generated a type of heat worse than X-Pac circa 2001. Authors Heat wasn't "go away" heat so much as "What are they doing in the ring at all?" heat. They almost caved a jobber's face in after their Super Collider finisher which, mercifully, was consequently modified.

Moreover, Akam and Rezar symbolised a regression from the dynamic update on the southern tag formula The Revival and American Alpha made their own. They were already fighting a losing battle as the unwanted heirs to the throne of the Road Warriors. Ruining that awesome division was enough to doom them in the eyes of the fandom - until they just about hung in there with #DIY in a spate of minor classics, the momentum and confidence generated by which afforded them a great reaction against less heralded opponents in SAnitY at TakeOver: Brooklyn III.

They are now, incredibly, genuinely, over - and they almost there as pseudo babyfaces, if the Full Sail buzz carries over to Houston. They should split their royalties with #DIY for their next-level carry-jobs - but they're over, all the same.