10 Massive WWE Babyface Pushes That Were Doomed To Failure
2. Jason Jordan
The Performance Centre has offered much to WWE's talent development programme since opening its doors in 2013, but an unspoken truth is that the superstar factory is yet to create a bonafide main event prospect from scratch.
Braun Strowman is en route to unlikely success in this regard, but many pegged Jason Jordan as the standout choice after seeing him finally shine in American Alpha alongside Chad Gable in NXT.
With a great look, dynamic in-ring technique and a hot tag sequence that sent audiences into a frenzy, he looked at long last like a ground-up WWE creation done good. Key to the presentation was a firm sense of realism. He had failed hard at certain times on the developmental brand, and his professional glory felt like personal vindication to those that had stuck with him.
It's unsurprising then, that when reality was flushed away, so too went his support.
WWE are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them, but the immediate vitriol fired at Jason Jordan since his revelation as Kurt Angle's son has highlighted how the soap opera device simply will not float in the modern age. Audiences are either refusing to believe it, or wanting to be ahead of the story itself and anticipating it to be a huge lie. Neither spell adoration for the once-popular Tag Team Champion.