10 WWE Wrestlers Lost In The Shuffle
4. The Dirty Dawgs
For a while, Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode were cornerstones of a SmackDown tag team division that relied on the quality of their work to break the malaise around constant and meandering rotations.
In response for holding down the fort during what proved to be one of the last sustained periods of the pandemic era, WWE have done the Dirty Dawgs dirty.
The doubles division on the blue brand has remained a story-free single issue concern. The Champions defend the titles against one pair at a time, and nobody does anything else. And because Vince McMahon loathes tag wrestling at his core, the duos are then often split into singles matches to get others over until it's it their turn to take a swing at whomever's holding gold.
Sucks that Roode and Ziggler are so good at it, too. 'The Show Off' did an awesome job getting Rick Boogz over as some sort of hybrid athlete on a recent SmackDown, and the 'Glorious' one's technical nous afforded Dominik Mysterio one of his sounder TV offerings thus far.
In short, they were fun, and now they're not. Because sadly that's how the soul-crushing cycle works. And that's never more apparent than with the next once-in-a-generation-talent...