18 Ups & 12 Downs From The WWE SmackDown Live Era
17. All In The Family
As noted earlier in this article, this angle collapsing quicker than the shoddy MDF keeping Bray Wyatt's house together was only so disheartening because they'd somehow managed to get it (and both men) way more over than anybody could have expected.
Randy Orton giving himself to Wyatt (and systematically taking everything else away from him in the process) following their tepid feud was inspired - it carried 'The Eater Of Worlds' all the way to the WWE Championship on a wave of momentum he'd not had since arriving on the main roster years earlier.
Over enough to win the Tag Team Championships in a loaded division and go into a Royal Rumble as two of the hot favourites, the pair defied every criticism of the original concept before succumbing to them at the worst possible time.