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#8: Rhyno/Heath Slater having to fight each other for job
Whenever two friends are forced to do battle, it's usually with a bit of reluctance. Shawn Michaels didn't really want to retire his friend Ric Flair, but he had to. Rhyno and Heath Slater, the first-ever Smackdown Live Tag Team Champions, were forced to battle each other for a roster spot due to some bookkeeping by Baron Corbin.
Corbin said there was only room for one of them on the roster and that the loser would be fired. Both men were obviously conflicted with having to fight each other with a job on the line as they both had families and needed to feed them somehow.
That was just another way the writers managed to get more heat for Corbin's heel run. When Slater reluctantly won, effectively leading to his friend losing a job, he was visibly guilt-stricken. And when he went backstage to confront Corbin, Corbin told him the roster spot was as a ref and not a wrestler.
It was on-point storytelling to get heat on Corbin and sympathy for Slater and Rhyno. Storytelling is at its best when it tears at your heartstrings, and this brief storyline did just that.
