10 WWE Wrestling Storylines That Turned Badasses Into Wimps
6. The Ascension - Old School Rulez
It's hard to class this as a bona fide storyline, your writer will admit, but it wouldn't seem right to put together a list of this ilk without taking a look at the badass-to-bullied turn of events that pretty much buried The Ascension upon main roster arrival.
Down in NXT the team of Konnor and Viktor had taken no prisoners en-route to becoming the developmental show's Tag Team Champions. With the two sporting Road Warrior-esque gimmicks, it didn't take a genius to come to the conclusion that the pair were seemingly a perfect fit to strike gold on Raw or SmackDown too.
But just a few weeks into their "big time" arrival, the supposed ones for the future were shamelessly fed to the tag teams of the past, with the A.P.A. and The New Ages Outlaws both taking their pound of flesh with ease. It didn't even matter that the one-time NXT duo got their revenge on the Outlaws at the Royal Rumble, the damage was done. Fans never saw the two as anything more than the chumps who couldn't fight off a bunch of old men during the remainder of their WWE tenure.