10 Times WWE Completely Buried Ring Of Honor World Champions
9. Mom And Dad
The former Tyler Black has had a pretty blessed tenure with Vince McMahon compared to numerous contemporaries that tried and failed before and after him, but the former Shield member and WWE Champion was victimised so heavily on television in the latter stages of his first run with the title that his painful November 2015 knee injury may have been a blessing in disguise.
'The Architect' was at first immune to the caustic 'support' of Authority figureheads Triple H and Stephanie McMahon having abandoned The Shield in 2014 to take the shortcut to main event supremacy.
However, mere months into his title reign, the power couple had reverted to type with their routine degradation of the company's so-called top heel.
It's a soul-destroying trope the company falls back on, ostensibly to 'motivate' said heel that in actuality makes them look like a pandering goon to tired bosses because...well, that's exactly what they are.
Week after week Rollins was eviscerated by his so-called associates, and even placed him in matches against the likes of Brock Lesnar and John Cena designed to disadvantage (or, 'test') him.
The injury soured an endgame to turn him for a WrestleMania match with 'The Game', presumably in protest to their relentless abuse, but that would have also flopped. Whinging at no longer receiving preferential treatment does not a good babyface make, and the company's inability to grasp that only made weeks of deeply flawed television that much more infuriating.