10 AEW Wrestlers Who Teamed With WWE Champions

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It took for the former Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson to reach the final days of their WWE contract to at long last be received as actual "Top Guys" by Vince McMahon, and even that was mostly due to a uniquely enjoyable bond with Randy Orton in late-2019.

The trio were solid working heels on SmackDown, teaming up principally to battle The New Day during Orton's WWE Championship programme with Kofi Kingston. Whilst 'The Viper' couldn't wrestle away Kingston's gold, Dash and Dawson were far more successful - they defeated Big E and Xavier Woods to become the first team to hold the NXT, Raw and SmackDown tag team titles.

The good times - unlike a standard issue edition of Raw - didn't roll on. Triggering yet more rumours that their mutually agreed upon release was imminent, they lost those belts after just over a month, and the union with Orton was quietly dissolved in the process.

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