10 Embarrassing Times Wrestlers Tried To Look Cool
2. The Kliq Go Full Geezer At RAW 25
For years, the various DX and or nWo reunions had developed something of a "F*ck off" quality.
Yes, good, gang up on the emerging midcard heel of the day and give him a sh*t-kicking masquerading as "the rub". Didn't you all sell a lot of t-shirts in the boom period. Capital. Well done.
The nostalgia bit got over in arenas, anyway, which half-justified the masturbation. The TV ratings tended to climb for a one-week injection, too, which was rather undermined when the same people didn't tune in to watch the regular schmucks the next week. Probably because the audience had just watched them get beat up.
This development reached a nadir at RAW 25, the event at which WWE killed nostalgia as much as credibility. This was somehow worse than Triple H and the gang beating on the square because, by aligning with WWE's version of the Bullet Club, it was as if the lads of the '90s felt they were still as cool and relevant. They were not.
They were old, established men desperately trying to take credit for a movement they had zero idea how to rip off, much less create.
"We have the Elite at home."
The Elite at home buried the Revival out of the company.