10 Collector’s Items Of Modern WWE Brilliance
2. The Bayley & Sasha Banks Act
The Bayley and Sasha Banks act, for so many weeks, has redeemed the irredeemable.
Your writer isn't even that high on it, on an emotional level - the comedy is IIconics-level cheap and abrasive - but it's just so impressive to see two performers swagger around a system they have played so beautifully.
The booking has threatened to nuke it, as WWE booking so often does, with rotten match finishes, loopholes, and the other assorted bullsh*t synonymous with Vince McMahon who, and this is likely no coincidence, is reported to have fallen for the act the very second it descended into the mire. But that's the strength; it's so good that it's too good for its own good. Of course Vince McMahon wants this all over the screen. Of course he wants it on his screen next week so much that he'll screw you out of this week just to get there.
It's a story about a symbiotic relationship that isn't so symbiotic anymore, and the thrill that comes with Sasha Banks' slow realisation of that. Every glance cast towards Bayley's SmackDown Women's title, every subtle in-ring performance that gradually reveals more of her superiority, preys on Bayley's dread.
It's about the old Boss awakening, Bayley's simmering fear of it, and the slow-burn to the inverted reprise of their legendary feud.