WWE: Top 5 Opponents for Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler
By Amelia N
3. The Street Profits
The Street Profits are recent ex-NXT Tag Team Champions, one of the most entertaining and high-octane teams to grace WWE programming in years, and one of the most over tandems in recent company memory.
Obviously, then, obviously WWE have decided their immediate future lies as hype men for Monday Night Raw, rather than actually… you know, wrestling. Because Vince McMahon.
Confusing and frankly sad booking decisions aside, Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford are a locked-in certainty to make huge waves when they eventually hit the ring on Monday nights. Why not hot-shot them into the Tag title picture?
Their situation is different to the one the Viking Raiders found themselves in on their main roster arrival; Street Profits are already known to Raw fans because of their position as pseudo hype men, and they’re very clearly babyfaces in the role. They can’t realistically be thrown into the same sort of squash match after squash match holding pattern the Raiders were; that sort of booking is for heel monster teams to show off their unstoppability (it’s a word), not babyface teams.
The energy and ability the Street Profits would bring to a feud against Robert Roode and Dolph Ziggler would more than make up for the fact they were hot-shotted into the title picture, and more importantly, said hot-shotting writes a simple way for the current Tag Champions to go over in the feud, should a rather annoyed and grumpy team backstage (I’m looking at you, scary Vikings) turn heel and rampage over the Street Profits for taking a title shot they (the scary Vikings) feel should have been theirs.