10 Times WWE Broke Your Heart And Didn’t Even Care

1. Women Trouble (2.0)

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More broken that Matt Hardy's Impact Wrestling universe by the time she was spat out by the malfunctioning main roster machine in 2017, Bayley fell so far from her wobbly podium that she's still yet to remotely restart a climb.

The aforementioned atrocious mishandling of her title win and retention aside, Bayley's momentum was halted by a hometown loss to Alexa Bliss just a month removed from her permanent dispatch of Charlotte as Monday Night Raw's top star. Her failure to recover her belt and her backbone in a 'Kendo Stick On A Pole' match the following month drained any faith the audience still had in her to be the nuanced odds-defier she'd portrayed with such aplomb in NXT.

WWE's main stage was and still is devoid of nuance, devoid of heart and devoid of longterm consideration - the exact three things that helped Bayley become 'the female John Cena' to so many on her inspiring developmental journey. The Champ Was There, and despite having the neon green, orange, red and yellow blueprint, Vince McMahon just somehow didn't seem to see it.

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