10 Contenders To Replace Daniel Bryan As WWE SmackDown General Manager

7. Lana

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Lana has been a total bust as an in-ring competitor. Was any other outcome likely? You can’t simply throw a performer into the ring without experience and adequate training behind them, no matter how much you want them to succeed. 2017 has proved what was obviously true all along - Lana is not a professional wrestler.

She may not be a wrestler, but she is still a more than compelling on-screen figure. Lana excelled as the manager of Rusev, where her character focused more on business and success than prancing and preening. WWE needs to cater to the strengths of its roster, and Lana’s strength lies outside the ring.

WWE has toyed with non-McMahon female authority figures in the past. AJ Lee had a hit and miss run as RAW GM, while Tiffany had a forgettable one in charge of ECW. Lana is a different beast to those two however - she seems tailor made for such a position.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.