10 Times WWE Failed To Replace Wrestlers
8. Shawn Michaels (with Leif Cassidy)
WWE's tag division in 1996 was weird and sh*t.
Established and credible act The Smoking Gunns were turned heel in order to pay off a storyline that saw Sunny working with three consecutive sets of Champions even though she was the star rather than any of the acts. The Bodydonnas and The Godwinns were the first two, but they were only teams because WWE effectively cloned Skip and Henry O Goddwinn respectively. The aforementioned Diesel & Razor Ramon doppelgängers were slotted straight in alongside them, only making the issue more pronounced. And when it wasn't tribute acts, it was the likes of the f*cking Bushwhackers trying and failing to roll back the clock.
The New Rockers were a mix of both bad ideas.
Al Snow was given his latest bad idea in the form of Leif Cassidy, who stood such little chance of replacing Shawn Michaels that the team were turned heel just to make it seem like sh*thousery all along.
Jannetty was out on his a*se again by the end of 1996, finally freeing Snow from something that looked to have yet again doomed his prospects before a remarkable reinvention.