Riddle looks more poised than ever to be a main event player and Orton was saved from his awful feud with Bray Wyatt, going from a dour story with no direction to something vibrant and fun with a clear objective: set it up so when they split, it hurts, and fans are on Riddle's side to get revenge on Orton. They're perpetually one of the most fun acts on WWE television every week and it's done wonders for both their careers. These two formed RK-Bro, which was just voted by a Twitter poll on a recent edition of SmackDown to be the best tag team currently in WWE.Īs champions, their bond has grown. The Original Bro pestered The Viper about becoming a team long enough that it actually worked. However, coming out of that, he not only regained another championship in the Raw tag team titles, but he won something even more important: true friendship with Randy Orton, of all people. Riddle kicked off the year as United States champion, which he lost at WrestleMania. He's too talented to let that go on for as long as it has, so here's hoping he sorts out whatever funk he's in and 2022 is closer to his 20 with a significant TNT title run. His TNT Championship win on the Christmas edition of Rampage came so late in the year that it doesn't make up for the past 12 months. With no big wins and several spotty storylines that weren't at all memorable, most of what Rhodes did this year was a bust. Upon returning, he wasn't met with a hero's welcome but now gets his belt thrown back when he tosses it out to the audience. Teasing a retirement just to take a few weeks off didn't help. The more he denied he would ever turn heel, the more the crowd started to reject him. Throughout the year, fans started to turn on Rhodes. The match itself failed to make up for it, too. Virtually every step of his feud with Anthony Ogogo was bad, from the terrible weigh-in segment to criticism of his American Dream promo. The American Nightmare's 2021 was far from a daydream, as several of his programs in AEW fell flat. NXT was rebranded as NXT 2.0, and that team's win at WarGames was an emphatic statement that the era of Superstars like Drake Maverick who made names for themselves in other companies but didn't fit the "land of the giants" mold was over. The message was basically that no matter how beloved they were by the fans, management saw them as budget cuts and failures. Longtime staples like Tyler Breeze, Ember Moon, Bo Dallas and Alexander Wolfe were all booted out, too. Hit Row formed their team, won a title, got brought up to SmackDown and were all promptly fired weeks later.īronson Reed won a title and was positioned for the main roster before being let go.įresh newcomers like Ari Sterling, Asher Hale, August Grey, Curt Stallion and Franky Monet were fired before properly getting their footing. Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish and Adam Cole, gone and in AEW. 1 contender's matches and not only didn't get her title shot but got fired without making her Raw debut. Keith Lee spent most of the year on the shelf before returning as "Bearcat," being stripped of his personality and then getting fired. Karrion Kross went from an unstoppable champion to a loser in awful ring gear and was fired alongside Scarlett, who never got to wrestle or even be his manager on Raw one time.
Whether they were still in NXT or had been moved up to the main roster, many talents weren't safe. Vince McMahon must have looked at the Black and Gold era of NXT as a failure for not putting AEW out of business and decided extreme measures must be taken. This year, WWE did a 180-degree turn, tossed it all in the trash and lit it on fire. Two years ago, NXT was put on the USA Network to compete on equal footing with Raw and SmackDown at Survivor Series.
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