10 Times Wrestlers Botched Their Biggest Moment

Brian Adams and Brian Clark first joined together in WCW during April 2000, figuring out life as a team on the company’s weekly programming. They fell into that existentialist trap (made famous by Big Show) swapping and switching between heel and face while never completely excelling at either. By the end of their WCW run, they’d become an unabashed parody of WWE’s popular APA tandem, shameless even in professional wrestling, where all of pop culture is fair game for lampooning.

During the Invasion, KroniK’s big shot at impressing their new boss came against The Brothers of Destruction at Unforgiven 2001 – only their second tag team match in WWE. Despite having talented opponents in The Undertaker and Kane, the match was an unmitigated disaster that forced WWE to reconsider the duo.

Kronik competed like they had accumulated a decade’s worth of ring rust. 99% of their offence was striking, which quickly became an issue due to Adams and Clark’s tentative technique. The bout was closer to a try-out than a match on one of WWE’s big four.

KroniK were a case of aesthetics trumping technique. Both were gone from the company by the end of 2001.