10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The Bloodline

6. The Dropped Judgment Day Subplot

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2024 will be the year WWE break all business records end-to-end in much the same way they did in 1998, but 2023 will forever be this era's 1997.

Much like when Steve Austin and The Harts were at war in the 90s and the commercial apex was yet to truly arrive, the summer of 2023 felt like WWE simply couldn't get hotter. Never was this more apparent than during the post-SummerSlam, pre-WarGames merging of The Judgment Day and The Bloodline against WWE's forces of good led by Cody Rhodes.

The zenith of this was the October 6th edition of SmackDown, where Paul Heyman and Rhea Ripley appeared to strike a deal that benefitted both parties ahead of a Survivor Series that brought the two stables together. Instead, when John Cena, Jey Uso and LA Knight helped shore up the numbers, Heyman instructed his team to back off and leave Raw's lot to clean up the mess.

They worked and lost the WarGames main event without help, and the supergroup concept was never revisited again. 

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