10 Wrestlers That WWE Are Failing Right Now

3. Shayna Baszler

Shayna Baszler Nia Jax
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Yes, Shayna Baszler just became one half of the new Women's Tag-Team Champions at Payback, and yes, her dual submission work on Bayley and Sasha Banks was f*cking kick ass. However no, working alongside Nia Jax in some frosty-duo-done-good is not a great use of her skill set in 2020.

This is a woman who once held the NXT Women's Title for 416 days in 2018-19 and looked like an absolute tank doing it. Her matches with everyone from Kairi Sane and Ember Moon to Io Shirai and Rhea Ripley were works of aggressive art that painted Baszler as NXT's answer to fellow MMA warhorse Ronda Rousey.

In many respects, Shayna was better than her real-life friend.

Raw life has been a false dawn for Baszler though. Her push was scrapped several times from WrestleMania 36 onwards, and now she's buddying up with the borderline-unbearable Jax. Shayna should be the heel face of the division, not a background extra.

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