10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2018 (So Far)
5. Dragging Sasha Vs. Bayley Out
That WWE have contrived to make the audience borderline indifferent to a feud between Sasha Banks and Bayley is miraculous.
They’ve accomplished this by needlessly dragging their split out over many months, going back on several potential turns along the way. They bicker one week, and occasionally come to blows, then reconcile the next. Wash, rinse, repeat.
WWE should have pulled the trigger on a big WrestleMania match, then stretched the program out through the summer. It had bags of momentum back then, but now, it is all but lost. Two of the company’s most talented wrestlers will eventually tell their story to an audience that’s only half interested anymore, and the end result will be a body of work paling in comparison to the incredible feud they spun down in NXT.
This week’s Raw saw Bayley finally snap on Sasha, leaving her unconscious after a brutal beatdown. It got a decent crowd reaction, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen one of them “turn,” and there’s every chance WWE will renege in a week or two. Such is the company’s complete inability to understand what made these two such great rivals in the first place.