10 Wrestlers Who Have Gone As Far As They Will Go In WWE
3. The Usos
The Usos lost the SmackDown Tag Team Titles to the Bludgeon Brothers in a Triple Threat Match also including The New Day at WrestleMania 34 in just 05:54.
That was it.
It's a sobering sign of the times - of a roster as star-laden as it is starstruck by the very company to which they are contracted - that the Usos have only once appeared on the main 'Mania card, where the Headbangers appeared twice...and it was framed/received as the pinnacle of their professional careers. Simply appearing at WrestleMania means as much as winning at WrestleMania used to in the overarching narrative.
It certainly wasn't wrestled as the pinnacle of their professional careers. It was a glorified squash match designed to put over the Bludgeon Brothers; a simple remit not even met as a result of its death slot positioning.
Last year did not represent a philosophical change to WWE's approach to tag team wrestling. Several factors converged to create their excellent programme with The New Day: the merch-friendly appeal of their opponents; their own eye-opening character development; the larger stage of sole-brand PPVs...
It was an aberration, in the not-so-grand scheme of things. Now that normal service has resumed, Jimmy and Jey have become normalised: an expendable duo used to reshuffle the pyramid. This time next year, SaNITy will likely hoist the Undisputed Era on their shoulders. And on the dance goes, with no end in sight to WWE's title picture-exclusive approach to storytelling.
And they say they don't "do" wrestling.