10 Times WWE Completely Misunderstood Sexuality
8. Bayley & Her Father
2017 was year WWE tragically managed to take a performer so organically over with their own audience that many compared her to John Cena as a future industry icon, and get her booed in a building that housed one of the organisation's best ever matches.
In Bayley, the company should hang their heads in shame for a chronically awful presentation of a performer with a purity that transcended audience members in age and gender. It's been a catastrophe on such a scale that it's legitimately tough to identify the lowest ebb, but May's 'This Is Your Life' segment makes a strong case.
The overly long nadir of her lousy feud with Alexa Bliss, Bayley's memory lane trip took a dark turn allegedly masquerading as comedy when each special guest made a joke about 'The Hugger's special relationship with her father.
Her dad came with her to school. He hassled her and her best friend. He...went on her first date? Yes, with as much implication as they could get away with on a PG rated broadcast, WWE less-than-tacitly alluded to the idea that her relationship with her father was far from just paternal.
It was perhaps worse that they stopped short of outright saying it - the lingering connotations were far worse in anybody's imagination.