10 Wrestling Storylines That Started Hot But Ended Terribly

TNA were in the midst of one of their many lulls in 2012. They'd completely failed in their attempts at going head-to-head with Monday Night Raw two years prior, and after switching Impact to a different night once more, they tried a number of wacky angles to help their product stand out.

Aces & Eights was one such storyline, and it started excellently. The group were completely shrouded in mystery, with an increasing swarm of leather-clad outlaws disrupting shows on a weekly basis, showing no discrimination in who they attacked. Face, heel, wrestler, authority figure... it didn't matter who you were: if you got in Aces & Eights' way, you were going down.

The appeal started waning as soon as the reveals were made. D-Von Dudley was unveiled as the first member, which actually went reasonably well, but they became gradually less effective. Mr .Anderson jumping ship was presented as a major coup, but the fans didn't see it that way. D'Lo Brown, a road agent, was revealed as second in command, which went over predictably poorly, and then there was the Bully Ray/Brooke Hogan romance angle, which plagued Impact for months.

The storyline eventually became a Fisher Price retelling of the New World Order. It inevitably jumped the shark, and most fans had lost interest by the time it concluded.