10 Terrible Wrestling Moments (Saved With One Genius Fix)

10. Bayley's Horrendous Main Roster Face Run

The terrible moment:

Bayley wasn't a UWF-i or RINGS super-fan.

She was a WWE super-fan and thus had to know she'd be expected to wield a kendo stick at some point or other. One is used in one in every four matches, for f*ck's sake. From a character perspective - and a "Why in the f*ck would you do that to somebody you expect the audience to get behind?" perspective - the decision to book Bayley as an ostensible pacifist was just mental. The 2017 programme with Alexa Bliss killed her character dead. She never really recovered until 2020, during which she finally discovered her confidence and used it to inject some sorely-needed improvised feeling to a dismal, dismal pandemic product.

An act that magical should never have turned.

The genius fix:

If WWE couldn't sanction or even understand a nice-hearted character in tune with her innocence, use the storyline to reinvent Bayley as a vengeful, weapon-wielding ass-kicker capable of dishing out just harrowing, awesome beatings, possibly with the guidance of Mick Foley.

Adapt (or Americanise) the core appeal of joshi almost by using the dissonance of pigtails and bloodshed to get Bayley over as killer all the cooler for how atypical she looks.

Anything except have her allude to fancying Corey Graves. That's the last thing anybody wants to see.