WWE's 12 Fails Of Christmas
3. Trouble In Paradise - Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2009
It's unclear yet how history will review WWE's 2000-2010 era. The company moved to monolithic stadiums for Wrestlemanias, took Raw around the world, and set the wheels in motion for a revolutionary Network that would completely reinvent the wheel on their business model.
But for those who maintained a close eye on the product week-to-week, there will probably also be a series of niggles and gripes labelled 'Missed Opportunities'. At the top of that pile would have to be the inexplicable de-push of Kofi Kingston.
Receiving a monster push at the tail-end of 2009, the popular Jamaican/Ghanaian had worthily shone in his new spotlight.
Racing up the card with a series of big wins and an engaging feud with top heel Randy Orton, Kofi was the sole survivor as Team Kingston got by Team Orton at November's Survivor Series, and memorably put Orton through a table buried in the middle of a rabid Madison Square Garden crowd.
As a result, Kofi's clean loss to an Orton RKO at TLC '09 was massively deflating, and took so much steam out of a character still in need of a big singles win.
Before The New Day came along and saved three careers at once, such a crushing defeat here left Kofi struggling to find his way back to similar heights for the better part of five years.