5 pairs of wrestlers with no in-ring chemistry

#1 Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt

Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt never clicked in the ring.

Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt were put on a collision course in the fall of 2016. Their main event match at No Mercy was underwhelming, but it looked as though there was reason for optimism as the storyline grew a lot more interesting.

First, the two were allied as part of the Wyatt Family in an angle that combined the fun of a fresh super team with the intrigue of the question as to when they would turn on each other. That moment arrived when Orton burned down the Wyatt compound, adding an edge of magical realism befitting Wyatt’s character.

Despite an interesting storyline, Orton-Wyatt at WrestleMania was an unmitigated flop. You can blame some of it on bad booking (projecting worms and maggots on the ring to symbolize Wyatt’s magical powers did come across pretty lamely) but some of it comes down to the talents at hand, too, simply not working well together.

They’d follow it up with an arguably even worse House of Horrors Match at Payback before the rivalry mercifully came to an end.

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