How WWE Just Saved One Of Its Worst Ideas EVER

By May's WrestleMania Backlash, The Judgment Day was a problem flailing like a loose shower head bouncing around an empty bath. Pardon the rudimentary simile, but that was Edge's stock-in-trade for long enough that it started to rub off.

Damian Priest was just about making the grade as Edge's heater, but he too was fed waffle to regurgitate to the sound of glum confusion in arenas nationwide. He'd lose, too, denting what nominal credibility the new act had.

WrestleMania Backlash brought a beam of light, though not one anybody could have immediately forecast would burn quite so brightly. Rhea Ripley joined the group, helping 'The Rated-R Superstar' beat AJ Styles yet again, begging two questions; a) why didn't babyface AJ Styles have any friends to stop this constantly happening to him? and b) what was Edge saying backstage to be so convincing when not a single person was buying what he was selling out front?

Not once did WWE even attempt to answer the latter issue, but in addressing the former, they stumbled into the next bizarre fork in the road for the drain-circling stable. Styles finally found help, linking up with fellow Bullet Club alumni Finn Bálor and Ripley's former tag team partner Liv Morgan to form a makeshift trio that could take the updated Judgment Day down. June's Hell In A Cell was the destination, but through nefarious but logically sound (!) means, the numbers game was too much for the faces. The Judgement Day got the win, and it looked like at least some of the nonsense had competitive value.

For 24 hours, anyway. On Raw the next night, Finn Bálor staged a coup and joined Priest and Ripley in violently booting Edge out. A day after they'd finally gotten their sh*t together, it was drizzling away again.

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