If all six of these men weren’t made men before WWE Elimination Chamber 2014, they were when it was all said and done. Both The Shield and The Wyatt Family were the hottest acts in WWE not named Daniel Bryan going in, and coming out of this show, and it looked as if WWE had just announced to the world that these six guys are the future of this business, which was…almost right.

Due to the way American wrestling is portrayed and structured, a tag team rivalry, especially in WWE, was never going to be a main event draw no matter what. However, it was clear that the company saw things for all six men in this match but it didn’t quite work out for all of them.

For The Shield, their story has been told time and time again. Roman Reigns is a genuine international celebrity these days, and after some real teething problems as “The Big Dog” to the point where fans literally wanted anyone but him to be the top guy, he became “The Tribal Chief” and forced everyone in wrestling to acknowledge him. Once they all did that, Reigns has become one of the biggest stars in wrestling history, and his presence is sorely missed when he’s not around. Seth Rollins has had his own Hall of Fame level career since turning on his Shield brothers in the summer of 2014, and has already been labeled a legend by the new crop of talent emerging from “WWE NXT.” Dean Ambrose would have success in WWE, but he would reach his final form in AEW as Jon Moxley where he arguably the ace of that company, and also shows no signs of slowing down as the leader of the Death Riders.

The story of The Wyatt Family is a lot more tragic. The faction very quickly devolved from being an unstoppable main event act to just being a vehicle to get Bray Wyatt more over. Injuries would play their part in disrupting the group’s momentum, but if anything, leaning more into making Wyatt his generation’s version of The Undertaker made the character come off as a parody of itself at times, and outside of the odd moment as The Fiend, Wyatt wouldn’t reach the heights everyone expected of him. We will never get a true Wyatt Family reunion now as we sadly lost Jon “Luke Harper” Huber at the end of 2020, and Windham “Bray Wyatt” Rotunda in 2023, two deaths that the wrestling world is still coming to terms with, and as for Erick Rowan, he is still a member of The Wyatt Sicks, a group that despite having its heart in the right place, is a far cry from the group that inspired it.