10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Kaitlyn

3. The Diva Era Killed Her In-Ring Potential

Watch Kaitlyn's effort against Maxine on NXT in 2010 and then her blistering match with AJ Lee at Payback 2013 back-to-back and it's night and day. In less than three years, she had gone from awkward rookie to self-assured ass-kicker, and her match against AJ still stands the test of time five years on.

It's every bit as valid as anything WWE's "female revolution" throws up in 2018.

Kaitlyn and AJ obviously had something to prove with the match. They were handed over 10 minutes (an abnormal decision for WWE back then), had an intriguing story going in and believably pasted the crap out of one another come bell time. It was a total winner, had the crowd invested and remains the best match of Kaitlyn's entire career.

Revisiting it makes one wonder how much more she could have done without the distracting Diva nonsense, short multi-woman matches or focus on looks over in-ring work. Perhaps that's something Kaitlyn herself wants to prove during her WWE comeback this August.