5 failed WWE reunions

Reunions of tag teams and factions in WWE are awesome when they happen. Usually, we have a formally successful team or stable that is reuniting for a presumed well planned and thought out run with a host of active tag teams and stables for new feuds.

However, no matter how good something is planned out on paper, that doesn't always transfer into what actually plays out before us. Sometimes, it can be injuries that happen while other times it can just be piss poor writing and a series of unsuccessful storylines.

Here we have the top 5 biggest WWE reunions that would eventually flop, and hard.

#5 The Rockers

You're Fired!... Again and again and again

The Rockers, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty were one of the most successful tag teams of the 80's and early 90's.

After various Tag Team Championship reigns outside of WWE and more than a dozen thrilling matches in and out, Shawn and Marty went their separate ways in wrestling's most famous tag team split after Shawn kicked Marty through the barbershop window.

After briefly feuding, Marty remained in the mid-card for several years while Shawn became WWE's biggest star. Years later in 2005, Marty returned to WWE after a lengthy, decade-long absence, Marty returned to WWE for a one-time only reunion in March 2005 and worked so well together, that WWE planned for more with them down the line.

A fully fledged reunion was planned for 2006, Marty returned to the TV to aid Shawn in his feud with the Spirit Squad and McMahon' family.

Vince McMahon told Marty he would offer him a contract if he joined his ''Kiss My Ass'' club or break Chris Master's Masterlock. Marty did neither and was beaten up. He was announced to appear on the following week's RAW but didn't and instead WWE announced days later that he had been released from his actual real WWE contract.

#4 Evolution

Triple H, Randy Orton, Batista and Ric Flair formed the ever successful Evolution in 2003 for a very dominant and thrilling run. Randy Orton and Batista left and feuded with the group one by one in 2004 and 2005 and everything that was left of the RAW's biggest angle came to an end with a bloody Triple H and Ric Flair feud in 2005.

Almost 9 years after they seemingly split for good, Triple H, Randy Orton and Batista reunited, setting their eyes on taking down the most dominant group since they were last together, The Shield.

Evolution and The Shield would clash in two-match of the year calibre performances at WWE Extreme Rules and Payback, with Reigns, Rollins and Ambrose coming out on top on both occasions. Everything came to an end just a few days after Payback when Batista legitimately quit the WWE due to creative differences.

#3 The Shield

Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns debuted at the 2012 WWE Survivor Series and overnight had become there must watch superstars in all of WWE. The Shield was incredibly dominant and successful for 2 years, bagging the Tag Team titles (Rollins and Reigns) and the United States Championship (Ambrose).

They had many memorable and match of the year contenders with Daniel Bryan, Kane, The Usos, the Rhodes Brothers and Evolution, among more. The trio came to an end in the summer of 2014 when Seth Rollins shockingly turned heel on his brothers in arms and joined 'The Authority'.

Fans had been hoping for a reunion as early as the months following Rollins turn as many believed the group should have lasted until the end of the year before splitting up. The big reunion finally came after 3 years in 2017.

All 3 men had successful WWE Championship runs and were established as solo main event players, but WWE decided to see what would happen out of a heavily teased and hyped reunion. Through no one's fault, the results were poor.

A mere few weeks after reuniting, Roman Reigns fell ill with a bad case of the mumps and missed a month of action. He was replaced by Kurt Angle for a big match The Shield had scheduled with The Miz, Kane and The Barr for TLC.

Following Roman's return, the trio had some fun for just about a month before Dean Ambrose would go down with a serious triceps injury, which required surgery and at least 9 months on the shelf. It is currently unknown if the group will reunite again upon Ambrose return later this year.

#2 D - Generation X

Triple H and Shawn Michaels formed one of the funniest and most entertaining factions in 1997 when they formed D - Generation X. Every week they pushed the envelope on what they could get away with on the USA Network.

As described by Triple H, they were pretty much playing themselves on TV as they did on RAW whatever they thought was funny that they were doing backstage. After a very fun and successful run, the team portion of DX came to an end when Shawn suffered what was thought to be a career ending back injury.

He left WWE TV as a wrestler and Triple H and Chyna formed a new DX with X Pac, Billy Gunn and Road Dogg, for more of the same pushing the envelope TV.

After a failed Rockers reunion never took off in 2006, WWE decided to reunite Shawn and Triple H and it was..... Meh. Watching two young entertaining stars say 'Suck It' while pointing to their crotches and other risque tactics in the late 90's were fun, they were moving on with the world and what the audience found entertaining. Watching two 40 something-year-olds do it in 2006 while the envelope had reached its peak, was just not funny.

Perhaps they could have pushed it a little more but at the request of the reborn again Shawn Michaels, everything was toned down. It also didn't help that they had no main event calibre stars to work with until the end of the year in a program with Edge and Randy Orton but even that ended almost as soon as it began when Triple H went down with a torn right quadriceps and wouldn't return to TV until the late summer in 2007.

Although it was a shame to see the Game go down with such a serious injury, it at least drew an end to the reunion.

DX would reunite once more from the summer of 2009 until early 2010. A DX reunion in a PG environment is all you need to know for how poor that was.

#1 The NWO

The NWO was the hottest thing to hit wrestling in more than a decade when they formed at WCW Bash At The Beach in 1996. Wrestling's all-time biggest babyface Hulk Hogan turning heel and joining the fresh new ex-WWE talent Scott Hall and Kevin Nash was pure genius. Although the NWO had run its course in WCW by a 2000 reunion with several new members, it's 1996 - 1998 run remains one of the best times for wrestling and made WCW earn the bragging right of WCW Nitro beating WWF RAW for 84 weeks in a row in the ratings.

When WCW closed its doors in 2001, matches of the original NWO vs the like of The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin and others were already the matches fans could only dream about. That is until January 2002 when WWE announced they had signed all 3 original members to new WWE contracts.

The excitement and hype were very real, and rightfully so, the possibilities were endless. There was just one problem. After 9 years away, WWE fans really really missed Hulk Hogan, they just refused to boo him, even when sharing the ring with The Rock. They had no choice but to turn his face and down the red and yellow once more, and without Hogan, the NWO wasn't going to work.

Adding former members X Pac and the Big Show, and new members Shawn Michaels (we have seen him a lot on this list today) and Booker T did nothing to help, while Kevin Nash went down with two serious injuries, the latter keeping him out of action for 9 months and Scott Hall would be fired in May for unprofessional conduct during a UK tour. The NWO in WWE was doomed before it ever really began.

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Edited by Tanya Rudra