10 Times WWE Tried (And Failed) To Make You Cheer For Former Heels
8. Carmella
The SmackDown Live Women's Championship has travelled a long way in the four months since Carmella clung to it with just the right amount of false hope a pretender should espouse.
Contrary to received wisdom, 'The Princess Of Staten Island' was a great heel, albeit not perhaps best placed at the top of division as a great wrestler. The character was an archetype of a time gone by, but as she said shortly before giving up her plum spot to Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch, she was "proud to be a Diva".
This sort of patter had become uncommon amongst those in the division, and thus had a place - though she could have done without Alexa Bliss being almost identically positioned on Monday Night Raw at the same time.
After her title loss there was little wiggle room for her persona on the blue brand. The IIconics did her b*tch schtick better, and Becky Lynch became the complete wrestling heel before Carmella could exponentially expand her moveset.
She was instead made a dancing fool alongside R-Truth. The gimmick has sort of worked - the pair drew so many new eyes to the mixed match challenge that the dance break has now become a feature in every match - but fans don't erupt, they merely don't boo. This half-baked effort is the best they'll ever make for her, in the near future at least.