8 WWE Busts Who Revived Their Careers

8. Naomi

Naomi's "...with caution" patter might scan as fairly one-note, but it has at very least gotten her over as one of the biggest stars of 2025 following a shocking heel turn on Jade Cargill the prior summer. It also shouldn't come as much of a surprise that she's been able to get it as over as she has considering some of the other turds she was forced to polish in her prior run with the company leading up to a 2022 walkout.

Her 2018 runs with the SmackDown Women's Championship were increasingly looking like career highs by 2020 when she was trapped risible feud with Mandy Rose over husband Jimmy Uso's affections and forced into a health-related sabbatical for the rest of 2019. A monster return pop at the Royal Rumble wasn't remotely followed up on, and a series of defeats before and during the early stages of the pandemic bottomed out with a Lacey Evans rivalry that - amongst other things - saw them brawl following an excruciatingly bad karaoke showdown segment in the summer.

Lost at sea creatively, a team with Sasha Banks in 2022 was the best of a bad situation for both, and they knew as much when they boldly walked out in protest of terrible booking, leaving the tag title belts behind them as they went. The pair to circuitous routes to greater heights, and while Banks rebadged herself as Mercedes Moné and found tremendous success in NJPW, the indies and especially AEW, Naomi's sojourn to TNA before returning to WWE at the 2024 Royal Rumble seemingly revived her self-belief. 

Driving the collapse of The Big Three with her attack on Jade Cargill (and months-long denial to Bianca Belair), Naomi successfully cashed in her Money In The Bank contract to become Women's World Champion, having also battled Cargill in tentpole outings at WrestleMania and Evolution. The storylines have been some of the most cared-for in the company, with the former Funkadactyl using 2025 as a proof-of-concept year for herself as the division's premiere heel and/or standout talent. .