10 Potentially Awesome WWE Feuds Which Failed To Deliver

Many didn't expect Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton to have as much chemistry as they did when they teamed up in late 2016. But when Orton shockingly joined the Wyatt Family, he seemed like a perfect fit. He was always inevitably going to turn on the group and it appeared, on the surface, that WWE was generating a great, slow-burn rivalry that would culminate at WrestleMania 33.

Orton winning the 2017 Royal Rumble acted as the catalyst for one of the most anticipated feuds of WrestleMania season. Everything about the buildup was really good: the tension between Orton and Luke Harper, subtle foreshadowing throughout until Orton finally struck and announced he'd be challenging Wyatt for the title on the grandest stage of them all. When the match finally came, instead of an intense fight, we got a bunch of bugs projected onto the ring. The match with the most potential had turned into the worst of the night. Plus, the decision to put the title on Orton just sucked all of Wyatt's momentum that he'd worked so hard to build over the past six months.

Then the House of Horrors debacle happened and the whole feud had fizzled. Wyatt as a whole was dead in the water, only managing to return to the same heights two years later when he repackaged himself as The Fiend. Such potential wasted.