14 Ups & 14 Downs For WWE In 2018
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14. Finn Bálor's Endless Suffering
'The Extraordinary Man' lived a rather ordinary life for a man his size on WWE's main roster in 2018, finding himself on the wrong end of countless bouts of unnecessary roughness from bigger badder b*stards.
Worse perhaps than the relentlessly awful booking was the instruction he was given (or worse, his own improvisation) to smile through it all. His character's gleeful indifference towards his horrendous plight might have popped the boys and girls on social media, but it only served to make him look masochistically ignorant on television.
His lone appearance as the 'Demon' was - predictably - sensational. Finn's potential is such that he can be saved with little more than a literal fresh coat of paint. That's perhaps how the company justify their otherwise-abysmal man-management.
And speaking of that...