15 MORE Failed Experiments From WWE Developmental
2. Jason Jordan Fails In Tag Teams
There have been select cases in WWE history where a wrestler has just not been the type to play well with others, breaking up or abandoning unions simply because the single life just makes sense.
Stone Cold Steve Austin's "DTA" catchphrase extended to almost all of his tag team title reigns. Shawn Michaels, Dude Love and The Undertaker were under no false pretensions about how they stood just as much a chance of getting a Stone Cold Stunner as the opponents. Meanwhile, the equally ornery Bad News Brown was so terrible at co-existing with his colleagues that he walked out on two Survivor Series elimination matches in back-to-back years. To many and indeed most, it's just not a team sport.
That didn't prove to be the case for Jason Jordan. Before his deeply unfortunate career-ending injury in 2018, the talented amateur had found his kindred spirit in Chad Gable in NXT. American Alpha burned brightly for the short time they were permitted to, and Jordan's last match proper was as a doubles Champion alongside Seth Rollins.
This took a while.
A prodigious talent that just couldn't quite find what fit him, his teams with CJ Parker and Tye Dillinger fell away, and never in a way that made a split storyline all that captivating. It did at least give his origin story with Gable some juice - Chad had to campaign hard to convince him that this time, it might just work.