10 Disturbing Times WWE Flirted With Romance Angles

10. Buddy Murphy Kisses Aalayah Mysterio

A thirty-something antipodean in a relationship with a very young girl drawn to his star status. In 2020.

Nope, not one brave, harrowing tale of many that filtered into a repulsed public as part of the #SpeakingOut movement: a WWE storyline!

The optics on this thing man, f*cking hell. Proving that WWE was out of touch with reality to a level not thought possible even to the most cynical observer, the Buddy Murphy and Aalayah Mysterio relationship was so beyond f*cked. For whatever reason, terrible ratings and a gross quest to correct them, most likely, Aalyah started to look at Buddy with googly eyes after he distanced himself from her family's tormentor Seth Rollins. They grew closer, and even kissed, though the real-life Matthew Adams, it should be noted, was bemused by and uncomfortable with this development...

...likely because he turned babyface subsequently.

The f*ck?

He was probably uncomfortable because it was unseemly in any context, but Jesus Christ, this would have been deeply ill-advised if WWE had damned gross power dynamics in an exploitative storyline. This, instead, was super-stud makes out with chick, so...cheer him?

In an even sicker twist, they treat elder sibling Dominik like he's some dipsh*t toddler who just learned how to tie his shoelaces.

How young must Aalayah have been in their eyes?!