10 INSANE Risks WWE Took With Their Biggest Stars
3. Becky Lynch
Becky Lynch should have been permitted to fall in love with a fellow superstar and it not almost derail the run she'd worked over a decade and a half for, but such is life atop WWE's typically unstable tree.
Rising to fame, fortune and iconic status in 2019 as 'The Man', Lynch's historic WrestleMania 35 win over Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair came as result of the latest case of WWE audiences rejecting what they were being fed when she'd turned heel the prior summer. All went swimmingly too, until her relationship with Seth Rollins was needlessly thrust into kayfabe's grisly maw.
A mixed tag feud beckoned with Lacey Evans and Baron Corbin, headlining a Stomping Grounds show that infamously only opened three sides of the building up due to poor sales. The quartet weren't entirely responsible - no performers are now - but an evident malaise had crept in as result of the angle.
The exact same crowd that stuck with her through years of doldrum booking simply didn't have half the energy to power her out of unfavourable circumstances after the mountain had been scaled. Especially when the end product was so dire. After a dispiriting two-month run, the idea was nuked.