10 Biggest Promises WWE Broke In 2020
5. Making Tag Team Wrestling Mean Something
The Revival asked for their WWE release several times across 2019 and 2020 before WWE finally opened their hearts and...
...realised that they'd already paid them their downside guarantee, and fulfilled the request mid-pandemic with literally one other place running in which to work dates. Mercifully for FTR, AEW was the destination. With the Young Bucks serving as EVPs and a deep doubles roster working almost as many tags as there were singles on Dynamite, FTR were assured that AEW did in fact care about their chosen discipline.
This is something WWE promised Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler that they'd get around to doing, like a beloved and much-missed genre of professional wrestling was the email query you don't know the answer to lurking unread in your inbox.
WWE broke this incredibly thin promise several times in 2020, and very nearly damned the Revival as a joke act forevermore. Images surfaced of the comedic attire Harwood and Wheeler were too close to wearing, and you almost have to admire the gleefully cruel ironic punishment.
"You guys like tag teams from the '80s, right?"
"Yes! Finally, man. We sure do."
"Cool! You'll be the Ding Dongs 2000!"
Beyond this unrealised pitch, WWE did however just have two teams swap titles, because those titles were the wrong colour, and shrug through the usual tropes of repetitive, numbing programmes (Street Profits Vs. Andrade & Angel Garza) and pointless break-ups (Heavy Machinery).