10 Specific Ways WWE Stars Can Recover From Awful Booking
2. The Authors Of Pain
As sure as the bloody rain, the Authors Of Pain, being a dreaded tag team, have fared miserably on the main roster thus far. This is a multi-faceted problem for which even NXT must bear some responsibility. It was well known that Paul Ellering was not bound for the main roster, which should have compelled the normally astute brand to afford Akam and Rezar some promo time.
But mostly, as ever, it is a Vince dilemma. They're a tag team, which never helps. The Authors are further victims of WWE's half-arsed debut treatment also; it's left to casual fans to infer from the RAW After WrestleMania pop that these debutants are big deals, a message WWE consistently fails to reinforce. To rewrite their story, WWE must, for a start, actually book the Authors and tell the audience why we should care about them. The Authors are no longer reckless, and enough time has passed to justify incorporating that gruesome Super Collider botch into a vignette reel highlighting their devastating power game.
It's a controversial move in bad taste, sure, but it would transmit a sense of danger, as opposed to transmitting nothing by virtue of limited, repetitive main roster appearances.