10 Times WWE Broke Your Heart And Didn’t Even Care
3. Women Trouble
Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks' 2016 rivalry over the Raw Women's Title may have elevated 'The Queen' to a level that matched her grandiose nickname, but the prize itself and the former 'Boss' of NXT were both significantly wounded from the regular and disjointed switches.
An accidental storyline even emerged from the repeated trades between July and December. Flair was unbeatable on pay-per-view but unprepared on Raw. Each of Sasha's wins came on the flagship but were undone by her rival within weeks on the next available supercard.
Whilst the matches hit peaks at points, the entire programme continued to be diluted by the repetition, with Banks' hometown main event Hell In A Cell loss to Charlotte a sad midpoint rather than the fitting reversed-result ending it should have been.
The rationale for that loss was that WWE were building an undefeated record on pay-per-views for Flair, presumably ahead of a strong WrestleMania programme - a thing that never even occurred after Sasha took final fleeting revenge cheating to help babyface Bayley pin her one month before the 'Show Of Shows'. And thus, a series that should have corralled all the promise and perfection from their collected NXT runs was cruelly crushed.