10 Problematic WWE Storylines That Have Aged HORRIBLY

10. Jinder Mahal's Ugly War Of Words With Shinsuke Nakamura

There was just something so needlessly defensive about Jinder Mahal's racist micro-aggressions towards Shinsuke Nakamura back in 2017.

The WWE Champion was flopping hard in the role, but naturally had to go out there every week and act as if this extended and warped troll-job was in fact going swimmingly. That we were all supposed to be bored rigid, that we were supposed to lose interest in the top of the card completely, that we were supposed to be booing the bigot. Bruce Prichard wasn't back with WWE at that point, but it smacks of a storyline he'd defend on his podcast as serving its purpose because fans didn't like Jinder while nakedly ignoring the fact that maybe people just didn't like barely coded hate speech and there are substantially different kinds of dislike anyway.

'The Modern Day Maharaja' mocked the way Nakamura spoke and looked, then retained the WWE Championship against him in consecutive pay-per-view matches that stunk. Zero sense of good prevailing over evil, and barely any sense that either man was even really fighting for a cause. It was the worst of times - a creative machine (barely) running on fumes and two walking and talking props unable to push the heap of junk up a hill.