10 WWE Storylines That Made No Damn Sense In 2020

10. Shayna Baszler: Vampire

Shayna Baszler made her long-awaited main roster debut proper on 11 February of this year. As expected, she made a statement on arrival by beating the tar out of then-WWE RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch, setting the wheels in motion for a big WrestleMania match. Everything went as expected, except for one thing that was completely out of the ordinary.

For some reason, the decision was made to book Shayna Baszler as a vampire.

I don't mean Baszler turned up in corpse paint with fangs and major garlic issues. I mean she drew blood from Becky's neck using her teeth. Shayna bit Becky's neck.

Fans were outraged. Second only to Asuka in terms of dominance in NXT, all WWE needed to do was book Baszler as all that she is, a legitimate bad-ass with credibility in spades. What was this vampire stuff about? Fans were fearful. A cursory glance at WWE's booking history shows they had every right to be.

Baszler eventually gave a bog-standard WWE explanation for biting The Man's neck and the whole thing was dropped. What? Baszler turns up as a vampire only to not actually be a vampire?

WWE really has no idea what to do with NXT stars.

Authored by John Bills

Contributor

Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

Posted On: 9th Dec 2020

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