10 Absolute Worst Ways WWE Dragged Out Feuds
8. James Ellsworth
To ruin the mystique and aura of the Asuka character - but to also "protect" her* - WWE reintroduced James Ellsworth in the spring.
Ellsworth took to Carmella's side once more because she needed help to defeat Asuka, which was a strange and nonsensical development; she had already defeated the woman who had defeated Asuka - Charlotte Flair - very decisively with her mastery of the most basic rest holds you had seen since Baron Corbin last wrestled the night before. WWE found itself in a quandary. They wanted to do nothing - not a thing - to alter the landscape in any meaningful or pleasing way. But the problem is that they had to do something to fill out TV. So they just had Asuka act more frightened of this total dweeb than she was in the face of any wrestler who'd ever challenged her awesome dominance before the dummy succumbed to a distraction loss.
And then - and f*cking then! - Ellsworth returned from whence he came, and WWE altered the landscape completely by finally booking a babyface to put an end to this reign of terror...
...a babyface the fans didn't want to cheer for in Charlotte Flair.
*WWE might as well have just literally buried her underground. At least then, we'd by sympathetic.
Fast-forward a few months later, and we're meant to cheer Carmella as she dances around the ring with R-Truth.
