10 Times WWE Picked The RIGHT Wrestler At The WRONG Time
4. Bayley
The above photo of a despondent Bayley perfectly captures the despair felt by her fanbase circa 2017-2020.
Bayley's run as a babyface on the main roster was awful - an abject, misery-inducing example of how to take a license to print money and get it revoked faster than you can say "Who booked this sh*t?"
Bayley went from looking like the next John Cena in NXT to a total afterthought on the main roster, entirely due to a series of calamitous booking decisions.
Bayley's first title win set the tone for what was to follow. In the dim and distant past of 2017, Bayley's on-again off-again nemesis Charlotte was at her imperious best. Undefeated on PPV, she had taken to calling herself the Queen of Pay-Per-View, and with WrestleMania around the corner the narrative wrote itself. Surely Bayley, the lovable underdog, would triumph over her arrogant adversary on the Grandest Stage of Them All and cement herself as the company's next big hero?
Not quite.
Instead, Bayley won on the Fastlane PPV - four weeks before WrestleMania - and in screwy fashion to boot. This completely let the air out of the storyline WWE had seemed to be building towards, and turned Bayley's big moment into a stunning anticlimax. The fact Bayley beat Charlotte again at WrestleMania was moot. After all, would Steve Austin's win over Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XIV have meant as much if the he'd already won the title on a lesser show a month earlier?
It was astonishingly poor storytelling, and the start of a truly cursed three years for Bayley.