10 Times WWE Destroyed Something Brilliant
5. The Divas Revolution
To this day, WWE remains borderline incapable of simply promoting an NXT act to the main roster and presenting them as is - i.e., how they got over in the first instance.
The counterargument - that WWE can't recycle NXT arcs beat for beat for fear of repetition - dissipates roughly half an hour into any given episode of RAW, during which WWE books the same opening segment that is older than UK Champion Tyler Bate. Rematches are practically law. A tiny minority of pay-per-view matches don't yield sequels. So why not just revisit a proven formula?
The fraction of RAW fans who tune into NXT are going to watch it, anyway - and such repetition would be far preferable to the dire main roster transposition of the Divas Revolution in 2015. Instead of drip-feeding their debuts, allowing fans to invest in one act at a time, WWE threw Becky, Charlotte and Sasha Banks out to the wolves all at once under orders from Stephanie McMahon, a heel (!), who essentially took credit for allowing them to grace her stage. They then grouped them together on the basis, let's face it, of ethnicity - before wrestling the same short, meaningless matches that had become meme-worthy in their stupidity.
It's still difficult to comprehend how badly WWE ballsed this up. Great women wrestlers were an aberration in WWE. The Horsewomen were the hottest thing across message boards everywhere. And WWE scripted 'Team PCB' (come the f*ck on) to make pinkie promises that they wouldn't hurt one another.