10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2016

10. Feuding Over A Teddy Bear

The Bayley vs. Alicia Fox feud only kicked off on Raw last week, but its foundations are more than dumb enough to warrant a place on the list. Bayley and Alicia aren’t feuding over a difference of opinion or even for competition’s sake, but because Bayley gave Cedric Alexander a teddy bear on last week’s pre-show, and Alicia’s jealous about it.

Fox has a crush on Alexander, Bayley gave him a gift, and now they’re presumably feuding for his affections. It’s a woefully thin storyline, and one that’s borderline insulting at a time when women’s wrestling has never been more important to WWE. Charlotte and Sasha Banks are treated like two of the company’s most important athletes, but everyone else on Raw is completely disposable, and this story proves it.

It’s good that they’re finding airtime for women outside the title scene, but surely the creative team could’ve come up with something better than this? At a time when WWE fans are crying-out for realism, the company are promoting a story that’d be better suited to Saved By The Bell. Add her last feud with Dana Brooke into the mix, and Bayley’s main roster run looks like misstep after misstep despite her enduring popularity.