7 things that didn't go as well as WWE wanted them to this year

#3 Jason Jordan: Kurt Angle's son

This storyline was dead on arrival.

I'm going to put this in plain, simple words - kayfabe father-and-son angles don't work. If the fans know that a wrestler isn't really another wrestler's son, they're going to eat the storyline alive. It happened with Vince McMahon and Hornswoggle in 2008, and it happened again this year with Kurt Angle and Jason Jordan.

This past summer, Angle came to the ring and revealed that Jason Jordan was his "biological son". Fans immediately buried it; they initially responded with apathy, which eventually turned to disdain. Still, WWE stuck to their idea and continued to market Jordan as a babyface.

I know that Jason Jordan is a good wrestler. I know that Kurt Angle is also a good wrestler. But is that seriously the only reason why someone at creative penned this not-very convincing storyline?

If they just HAD to link these two together somehow, they should've had Angle draft Jordan to RAW and take him in as his protégé. Instead, they shot themselves in the foot, and the storyline continues to bore fans. Though, to their credit, it seems like they're starting to steer into the heat a little more lately, so hopefully that becomes something.

Whatever their thought process was, whether it was thinking that Jordan would get over because of his association with Angle, or because they thought that it would put over Jordan's wrestling ability, this angle did not go nearly as well as WWE hoped.