10 Recent WWE Rivalries That Underwhelmed In The Ring
3. AJ Lee Vs. Paige
The Divas division was in a deplorable state for several years, and there was a point where it appeared to be on the verge of extinction. The women rarely got time for their matches or for their feuds, and although AJ Lee's record-setting reign as Divas champion breathed new life into the division, she still lacked real competition.
Enter Paige.
If anyone was capable of bringing change to women's wrestling in WWE, it was the inaugural NXT Women's champion, who contested a Match of the Year candidate with Emma at NXT Arrival in February 2014. Fans had similar expectations for her feud with AJ, which didn't officially get underway until AJ returned from her sabbatical that summer.
The roles being reversed with Paige as the heel and AJ as the babyface freshened things up a bit, but the fans waited, and waited, and waited for them to have a blow-away bout. Their string of matches on pay-per-view were far too short to be anything of note, and the Divas Championship bouncing back and forth between the two made fans care even less.