10 WWE Wrestlers Who Were Nothing Without Their Managers
3. The 1996 WWE Tag Team Division
Wrestlers being nothing, rather tragically, was the whole point of all of this.
In 1996, Sunny helped guide The Bodydonnas to the Tag Team Titles during the WrestleMania XII pre-show back when such a placement on the card was seen as sacrilege. It confirmed the reality of a league in need of every kind of TLC, but 'The Golden Haired Fox' was already the key focus by then anyway.
She linked arms with The Godwinns via lovesick Phineas, turning on Skip and Zip for the hog farmers to take the titles to Arkansas. She repeated the act with The Smoking Gunns, romantically involving herself with Billy and sort-of-but-not-really revealing that this was the main plan from the off.
Sunny was a world class performer and - by virtue of her AOL download figures if not television ratings or pay-per-view buyrates - a draw, but the sacrifice of an entire league to this fairly laboured subplot barely shielded the company's profound lack of depth and interest in the division.