Why WWE Squashed Bayley On Last Night's Raw
The Hugger's push has deflated quicker than her tube men.
About nineteen hours deep into WrestleMania 35 and with a flagging MetLife Stadium desperately seeking conclusion, the show's host Alexa Bliss agonisingly appeared on the big screen alongside the bloody B-Team. Whilst the sleep gathered in the eyes of an exhausted audience, the show's host inexplicably interrupted proceedings to flog out-of-date t-shirts alongside the tag team no hopers.
Alexa's incursion came at the wider expense of the atmosphere for the event's historic main event, and in spite of her popularity, fans simply didn't want to see her. Earlier in the night, she'd been the amuse-bouche for the unappetising prospect of a rapidly-reformed racist Hulk Hogan - only for the pair to be swatted aside by an impatient Paul Heyman.
Simply put, Bliss was a complete WrestleMania irrelevance. Having wrestled just twice since her lengthy and mysterious absence - and one of those a Royal Rumble cameo - nobody would have complained had WWE's Goddess sat out Sunday's frivolities, especially given the continued ambiguity over her ring readiness. After all, it's not as if the position of host is essential - or even vaguely necessary.
And yet just 24 hours later, 'Mania's MC was back in the ring to brutally crush Bayley - an opponent who had been an actual champion just the night before.
It was too strange a result not to take notice.
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