10 Best Character Arcs In Wrestling Today
6. Bayley
When life hands you lemons, squeeze the juice in life’s eyes.
After years of being the queen of kindness, everyone’s favourite hugger suffered one setback too many. For two years, Bayley failed to recover from the damage done during her feud with Alexa Bliss. Embarrassed on the microphone and demolished in the ring, her lifelong dream of being on top was swiftly shattered.
What followed was years of midcard purgatory, teasing feuds with her equally frustrated pal Sasha Banks yet never really pulling the trigger on anything. With life at something of a stand still, Bayley took pride in becoming one half of the first ever WWE Women’s tag team champions only to lose it the next month.
Even the most optimistic of us can begin to lose it after a while and for Bayley, not even winning the Money In The Bank or the SmackDown Women’s Title could disguise it this year. When old pal Banks returned with a new attitude, Bayley went along with it where there’d been a time she might’ve refused. After a devastating title loss to Charlotte Flair, Bayley finally snapped and stabbed away her old self in the rather comical form of those inflatable huggers. Proceeding to win back her title, her journey into furious maturity was complete.