10 Times WWE Were Right Not To Give The Fans What They Wanted

Samoa Joe stands as yet another one of the unfortunate bridesmaids which WWE have the habit of creating through a consistent refusal to pull the trigger.

Joe looked to finally be in a position to claim his inaugural world title since arriving on the main roster, when he decided to bully Brock Lesnar throughout the build-up to their Universal title clash at *shudder* Great Balls of Fire in 2017.

Yet, as we all know, that didn't happen and Joe failed to win the title in a SummerSlam fatal four-way, too.

Then in 2018, Joe would set his eyes on AJ Styles' WWE title and play the part of maniacal heel to perfection, only to win via DQ at SummerSlam and lose at Hell in a Cell via pinning reversal.

He would lose twice more to Styles at both Super Showdown and Crown Jewel, before he found himself being knocked off by WWE Champion Kofi Kingston at 2019's Extreme Rules.

The truth is - at 40 years-old - Joe simply isn't in a position to be the workhorse champion that he could have been in his younger days and he just so happens to play the terrifying challenger with so much aplomb that the idea of him now being the hunted doesn't seem logical from a booking perspective.

Despite fans desperately wanting to see Joe given the world title run that they feel he deserves, the wiser decision would be to keep him as a mid-card heel-gatekeeper for the remainder of his tenure as a performer and slowly integrate him into the commentary team - where he has excelled during his recent injury lay-off.