10 Wrestlers Who Have Gone As Far As They Will Go In WWE
4. The Revival
On this week's RAW, the entire premise of The Revival act was castrated. Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder had already been left impotent following booking that ranged from inattentive to humiliating. There is no way back now.
Roman Reigns and Bobby Lashley had never teamed as a two-man unit prior to Monday. They did so only as a means of competing in a p*ssing contest to show off their credentials as singles performers. They tagged each other in and out without one another's consent. Teamwork wasn't required. It was Roman's turn to lob his d*ck out. Then it was Lashley's. The two men p*ssed on the very notion of tag team wrestling and, in the process, two of its most earnest practitioners.
In the opposite corner, The Revival - an act that paid tribute to and elevated a genre of wrestling fundamentally ignored by WWE - were cast as an utterly feckless unit. They were punching bags, effectively. The same two men who perfected the dark arts of the genre - two men who became one fluid, genius entity in NXT - devolved into sideshow, with the very foundation of the gimmick sacrificed, not merely those who played it.
This entire segment visualised so much of Vince's dismal approach to pro wrestling. The Revival were mere collateral. It doesn't matter how good a tag team is; if they don't sell cereal, they will never succeed in Vince's WWE.