10 Very Bad WWE Ideas That Only Lasted 1 Day
8. Keith Lee's Skirt
Alright, it wasn't a skirt. And plenty of wrestlers could have pulled off wearing a skirt anyway. What, fundamentally, is wrong with a skirt as wrestling gear?
Nothing, unless you're Keith Lee, already have an established look, style and energy and have utilised all to tremendous success for the duration of a run in and out of the WWE system.
The former NXT Champion was caught up in a storm by virtue of these changes. A Raw debut on the post-SummerSlam edition of the show seemed to bode well, as did the mini-feud with Randy Orton that kicked off there and resulted in a short sharp shock of a clean win over 'The Viper' at Payback just six days later.
Eternal optimists and bad faith trolls alike trumpeted the win as a sign that everything was going to be just fine, but the gear was the far bigger tell and it always was. Lee was an elite talent in theory, but not one through the eyes of Vince McMahon. Further noodling and experimentation either side of a nasty battle with COVID-19 permanently doomed the 'Limitless' star. A man nicknamed "Bearcat" was released just over a year after the ill-fated main roster promotion.