10 New Directions For WWE After Backlash 2024

9. R-KO Winning Tag Gold

Drew McIntyre Damian Priest
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Credit to Kevin Owens and Randy Orton for doing everything in their power to make Solo Sikoa and Tama Tonga (as well as new Bloodline recruit Tanga Loa) look like unstoppable, bloodthirsty demons. The R-KO boys will be rewarded for that, and it's hardly like SmackDown is blessed with endless foes for A-Town Down Under.

The Street Profits kinda laid that bare on TV over the weekend.

They're struggling to convince, and there aren't too many other babyfaces tags worth a toss on the Friday night roster. That match vs. Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins proved something else: Austin Theory and Grayson Waller need the right opponents to work with or their WWE Tag Title reign will stink the place out.

KO and Randy are the perfect tonic here. Them as eventual champs promises the lure of more matches vs. Bloodline members like Tonga and Loa too. What's not to like about that? Backlash showed how well R-KO works those feisty brawls.

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