10 Worst WWE Feuds Of 2018

7. The Riott Squad Vs. Natalya

Natalya Ruby Riott
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Not quite as hard as The Riott Squad's bully-girl drivel did, right enough.

In 2018, they tried to intimidate the SmackDown female roster, failed, moved to Raw and have since been found lacking again. Somehow, this equates to Michael Cole and Corey Graves pretending the threesome messing with a production extra's headset, throwing paint or stealing things makes them this year's gang of 'droogs' from A Clockwork Orange.

Ruby Riott, in particular, has talent and can work solid matches when the situation calls for it. This cartoonish punk rock attitude the Squad have is garbage though, especially when they regularly come up short once babyfaces fight back. They have about as much threat as Heath Slater and the Social Outcast boys did.

The main target of their (ahem) aggression has been Natalya. Her role as the go-to veteran for snot-nosed upstarts is an issue all in itself, and it's unacceptable that WWE thought Ruby breaking Jim Neidhart's old Hart Foundation glasses was going to get the wrestling world talking.

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