10 Totally Stupid Things WWE Has ALREADY DONE Since WrestleMania 35

5. Jobbing Out So Many Champions

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Imagine holding a title in WWE.

"Great! I've made it!"

"Get on your back, dipsh*t. We don't know how to write stories, so somebody, doesn't matter who, is going to pin you to set up a match. Preferably via roll-up, so it doesn't really count."

On the April 15 RAW, Tag Team Champions Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder lost in an eight-man match. Intercontinental Champion Finn Bálor lost to Andrade. Women's Tag Team Champions the IIconics lost to a duo steeled by years of experience and the chemistry this fostered...

...Bayley and Naomi!

On SmackDown the next night, the IIconics lost again. Hey, that's their gimmick. They are obliviously sh*t. They also hold the same Women's Tag Team Titles WWE has spent almost the entire year telling us to take seriously. On RAW the next week, Billie Kay lost again, to Naomi, in 01:12 of a match that featured a 26 second-long rest hold. Billie bumped here as if on her first day of wrestling school. The first day of Tom Magee's wrestling school.

United States Champion Samoa Joe lost that night, too, in a Triple Threat match.

On the subject of which...

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