10 WWE Feuds We Didn’t Know We Needed (Until We Got Them)

Rewind just two years. Heavy Machinery are doing a whole lot of nothing on NXT, vaguely feuding with TM-61 but not really, competing on house shows but not exactly setting the world alight. Otis and Tucker were popular, sure, but the gimmick had a very clear shelf life. If you'd said back then that the world was two years away from Otis being one of the main babyfaces on SmackDown, not to mention a Money in the Bank briefcase holder, your comments would have drawn guffaws and not much else. That his elevation would come about through a feud with Dolph Ziggler? Yeah, right.

Once the Otis vs. Dolph feud kicked off, it became blindingly obvious to all and sundry that it was a feud that made perfect sense. On the one hand you have Dolph, the ultimate arrogant prick, supremely talented and fully aware of it, the sort of cocky heel that fiction has been built on for decades. On the other side of the ledger is Otis, a rotund fella' with a heart as big as his sump, the everyday man (if the everyday man was a weight-lifting and steak-eating machine). Add the gorgeous love interest and a jealous friend, you've got yourself a story.

All of a sudden it was a WrestleMania feud, and a damn well-written one at that. No match at this year's show suffered more for the lack of a crowd, but Otis has been made. That Tucker or Mandy will eventually screw him out of the Universal Championship seems immensely predictable, but that matters not a jot right now. Otis has been a breath of fresh air, and we have a feud with Dolph Ziggler to thank for that.