5 WWE Superstars born in the wrong era who never got a chance to shine

#2 The Ascension (Konnor and Viktor)

Do they belong in the Golden Era?

For any superstar who makes it big in NXT, they know that the real challenge still lies ahead. Winning over the Full Sail University crowd is comparatively easy compared with the more general fans of RAW and Smackdown.

While most of the time NXT Superstars are under the guidance of Triple H, the gimmick can still be completely torn apart and ruined as soon as Vince McMahon and his team get their hands on the wrestler.

Konnor and Viktor of the Ascension are very good examples of this. The pair held the NXT Tag Team Championships and, in many ways, helped build that division, leading to future pairings like American Alpha and DIY to take on the torch. Many assumed that the Ascension would fit into the main roster with ease, and maybe even help rejuvenate the division.

That was not to be, however, as the pair were immediately launched into a storyline that was only going to end badly. The main roster creative team decided to turn them into a kind of reboot of The Road Warriors, but instead of paying homage to the legendary team, they instead bragged about how they were better than Hawk and Animal.

The fans understandably took exception to this and Konnor and Viktor soon found themselves jobbing out to far less impressive duos on RAW.

In some ways, you could argue that given the obvious comparisons between the Ascension and The Road Warriors, perhaps the former NXT Tag Champs would have had better look during the 1980s in the heart of the Hogan Era.

Of course, nobody would suggest they could actually rival Hawk and Animal, but if the creative team had found better gimmicks for them -- perhaps playing off their gothic/Illuminati style of clothing and makeup -- they would have been able to compete against those kinds of popular tag teams we remember from our childhood.

Imagine The Ascension taking on The Heart Foundation or The Killer Bees at Wrestlemania, or getting together with somebody like Bobby Heenan or Jimmy Hart to help keep Hogan away from the WWF Championship.

There is still time, of course, for the fortunes of the Ascension to be turned around, but they currently have a long way to go, and it's not clear whether today's WWE even care enough about tag-team wrestling to help them get there.