8 Burning Questions That Need Answering At WWE Royal Rumble
8. Are The Ascension for Real Or Almost Gone?
When they debuted, the Ascension looked like they were going to be treated as a big deal, knocking off the previous WWE Tag Team Champions. Since then, they have destroyed imported jobbers while the announcers get upset about Konnor and Viktor mocking some great tag teams of yesteryear. Then on Monday night, the New World Order, New Age Outlaws and APA confronted the Ascension and sent them running. Sure, the Ascension was outnumbered seven-to-two, but the image of NXTs most dominant tag team being run off by guys who havent competed regularly in years was not a good sign. At the Rumble, the Ascension squares off against the New Age Outlaws, who last were seen jobbing in record time to the Shield at WrestleMania XXX (along with Kane). The question is, is this match an attempt to build heat for the Ascension by having them destroy one of WWEs most popular tag teams? Or is this a way to start pushing them out the door but get some mileage out of them? Odds are that this is an effort to get fans to hate the Ascension and take them seriously, but if it doesnt work, then we could see them shipped off pretty quickly.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
