10 Most Boring Wrestlers Of 2017

5. Tamina

Tamina Lana
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Someone needs to make a quick compilation of Tamina's facial expressions on YouTube. In the above pic, Lana is selling pain and concern in equal measures. She's alive, in the moment and at least trying. Meanwhile, Tamina looks like she's totally bored by everything around her and can't even be bothered to sell that.

Not possessing charisma in abundance isn't a major problem if other aspects of a performer are magnified instead. WWE barely even try with Tamina. She kicked around wearing the same facial expression all year then we were suddenly supposed to take her as a threat to Nia Jax because it's Survivor Series and 'Raw vs. SmackDown' was back again.

That's poor character development from all concerned. In 2017, Tamina managed to make the dynamic Lana character less important, and that's even after WWE's creative writing had undermined the 'Ravishing Russian' for years. She did it all, matches, promos and ringside work, wearing a look that screams indifference.

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