10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Bloodline
The Bloodline are arguably the biggest and most successful stable in WWE history. Arguably...
When WWE's current boom comes to an end, what characters or storylines will come to define it?
Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock are the names and faces of the Attitude Era in the same way Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels were - for better and worse - the two talismanic New Generation stars that came before them. Hulk Hogan was such a big deal that 'The Hulkamania Era' is as shorthand as anything else for WWE's first commercial peak in the late 1980s. But what of the present day?
Cody Rhodes finally Finishing The Story cements him as a cover star, and Triple H won't not want to be included in the kudos, but in The Bloodline, WWE has a story that has been top priority for half a decade, a stable that has technically been around even longer, and the one vehicle that at long last got Roman Reigns where he probably should have been a long time ago. 'Thje Big Dog' had to become 'The Tribal Chief', but financially for the market leader, it was definitely worth the wait.
The Bloodline are without question the act WWE wants you to remember when all of this is over. A legacy that started decades earlier peaking alongside the industry itself.
Just don't ask about these other moments...
10. The Original Bloodline
Should Roman Reigns and The Usos reunite as opponents of the Solo Sikoa-led version of the group, the trio will immediately challenge Cody Rhodes for the top babyface act in the entire company.
Whether it's Jimmy and Jey embracing after the long hard road they've both travelled under (and out from under) the thumb of their power-mad cousin, or said cousin acknowledging them rather than forcing it the other way around, the group spent so long as monster heels that it wouldn't be smart pro wrestling promotion to not now give people chance to enjoy their work rather than despise it.
It also allows for a second attempt at an idea that was rather wonkily executed first time around. Between 2015 and 2020, the three were an on/off act on television in service of the perpetually limp Roman Reigns babyface push. The ceiling was always going to be low because the the fan investment was - the longer audiences couldn't commit to 'The Big Dog' as their number one guy, the longer the group felt more of a novelty act brought together by family bond as opposed to the group capable of dominating the very landscape of the market leader.