10 Biggest "What If" Moments In WWE SummerSlam History
4. What If The Crowd Had Gone Along With Becky's Turn? - 2018
At SummerSlam 2018, Tea-Generation X (yep, that's what they were called) imploded. Becky Lynch, seething with bitter resentment that Charlotte had forced her way into her SmackDown Women's Championship match with Carmella and stolen the title from under her, finally snapped. Despite her being the more popular of the two and, let's not forget, well within her rights to be annoyed at her over-privileged two-faced worm of a best mate, WWE assumed people would boo her.
Instead, she struck Charlotte, and the entire Barclays Center crowd in New York cheered.
After a pitifully-scripted attempt to try and claw some heat back on SmackDown the following week, WWE realised nobody was going to boo Becky Lynch. The subsequent journey she went on as a face saw her develop The Man persona and, ultimately, headline WrestleMania. But if the Brooklyn crowd had just done as they were supposed to that night, or even just been indifferent to the whole thing, none of that would have happened.
Instead, Becky would have played second-fiddle to Charlotte on SmackDown for the remainder of the year and, crucially, not been leading the pre-Survivor Series charge on Raw directly into an errant fist from Nia Jax. The inevitable Charlotte vs. Ronda WrestleMania encounter would have been sensational, but lacking the fan-support required to push it to the main-event.