10 Thrown-Together WWE Acts That Made No Sense
6. Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri
Tajiri as the last-minute replacement for Chavo Guerrero perhaps should have resulted in a change in the booking too, but WWE's decision to have the bizarre dup defeat Team Angle in a ladder match at Judgment Day 2003 inadvertently scuppered the company's later attempts to reignite 'Latino Heat' as one of the blue brand's biggest heels.
Los Guerreros were getting over strong as babyfaces that year, with Eddie's charisma the anchor of the absorbing unit. Chavo's injury didn't cause any kind of stutter in his eventual ascension but did knacker the 'Japanese Buzzsaw' when Eddie planted him hard on the hood of his low-rider after they lost the titles back to Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin a few weeks later.
Fans cheered his enraged response. Unlike present day, the company steered into the adulation instead of suppressing it, and Guerrero's journey to his iconic WWE Championship victory the following February continued at pace.