10 Terrible WWE Gimmicks That Were One Tweak Away From Perfection
9. The Prime Time Players
"Millions of dollars, millions of dollars, millions of dollars" was the sort of goofy sh*t too good not to get over in the grey and grim early 2010s WWE landscape, yet a bizarre insistence on never truly committing to the Darren Young/Titus O'Neil team as a team ultimately put paid to their enjoyable act.
There's a misconception that every tag team has to reach an end destination and spit out singles stars, but both Young and O'Neill never looked as good as when they could elevate each other. Their time together on misfit broadcast NXT Redemption was a bizarre and brilliant success in an environment engineered to craft nothing but abject failure. Their two runs on the main roster between 2012 and 2015 were axed with nominal rationale - on both occasions, the characters coming out of the double act were weaker than the ones portrayed within it.
A "tweak" is only ever really the smallest of changes, but it was this WWE couldn't resist with O'Neill and Young. From over to very-f*cking-not-over, their trajectories were twice tanked as a result.