10 Great WWE Moments We Came Agonisingly Close To

10. SISTER. ABIGAIL.

We were presented instead with a firecracker of a substitute match between Finn Bálor and AJ Styles, marred though it was just 24 hours later by the sight of an older, more broken down, more profoundly overexposed demon taking the Brock Lesnar match at the Royal Rumble.

Very good as it was, it meant not a thing, so we are left to mourn the schadenfreude alternative.

When pro wrestling invites farce - which WWE did by repackaging Wyatt as a vaguely problematic female character with a d*mn lisp - farce tends to answer the call with glee.

We were almost treated to the sight of Wyatt, wearing an unfamiliar shawl tripping up and falling on his arse. We were almost treated to the sight of Bálor selling pure terror in the face of a living, jumping shark, only one that wasn't remotely scary. We were almost treated to the sight of Wyatt struggling to brush aside whatever that thing was covering his face to kiss Bálor in the forehead, thus kissing goodbye to the Abigail character about a fortnight after it was introduced.

Were it not for the mumps, we were almost treated to the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz Vs. Your Fat Goth Sister.