10 Times WWE Was Categorically Worse Than It Is Right Now
7. The Original NXT (Season 3)
Back once again with the ill behaviour, it's the first and only female version of an idea that should have already been confined to the bin before the stench of the first season started to linger.
Everything already problematic about the freshman and sophomore series' of NXT were ramped up to the detriment of the all-female cast - a crew of performers that were, in the main, even less experienced than the rookies that were sent out to die in the months before them.
Michael Cole and Josh Matthews were - without hyperbole - rampantly sexist throughout in their vile takedowns of the over-exposed semi-pros. Commentary can sometimes tell the story when the wrestlers can't, but the pair going into business for themselves only served to underserve those that desperately needed it.
Living the gimmick presumably with the full support of Vince McMahon (if he even knew the show existed), Cole lambasted the women for their low quality efforts whilst Matthews offered little or nothing in the 'babyface' defence against his caustic colleague. It was unbearable - fittingly the only point at which it had any synergy with the p*sspoor product on show.