10 Paige Matches That Prove WWE Has Misused Her In Women's Revolution

7. Paige Vs. AJ Lee - WWE SummerSlam 2014

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One of the most important aspects of in-ring performance on the grand stage of WWE is getting over a character during the course of a match. At SummerSlam 2014, Paige and AJ Lee were not only tasked with telling their collective story but, at the same time, the Brit was faced with getting her new heel persona over with fans inside Los Angeles' Staples Center.

She openly mocked and berated Lee over the course of the match and showed more intensity and aggression as she tried to defeat the one woman who had been such a thorn in her side in year one of her WWE career.

Paige ultimately reversed The Black Widow submission into the Ram-Paige and collected the title, doing so in just five minutes.

The SummerSlam match is not only an example of how far Paige had come in her handful of months with the main roster but, perhaps of more significance, proof that she could jam-pack enough action and character work into a five-minute window to have the match land on a list such as this one.

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