10 Wrestlers Who Broke Kayfabe In Unusual Ways
3. Bayley, Sasha, Alexa And Nikki Stop Wrestling...
...when the whole world probably should have followed their lead.
The first ever pandemic SmackDown was a curious experiment of an episode that had Triple H bantering Michael Cole off the face of the earth in a coy way to cosy up workplace bullying, highlights of other pay-per-views to fill the gaps between the "novelty" Performance Center bouts, and absolutely no mention whatsoever of why the f*ck we were all suddenly all locked indoors.
Given the difficult task of opening up a historic and slightly tragic show, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss put forth a decent doubles effort under the pressure of atmosphere unlike any in wrestling history. No fans, no noise, no point, in reality, and the four of them understandably agreed when the show cut to break.
Though SmackDown was live, a lack of audience rendered anything within the commercial break completely redundant, apart from select feeds in various corners of the world that got the lot. The lot, in this case, was a shot of the two teams simply stopping wrestling and prepping to come back from commercial.
What once might have scanned as a scandal didn't even register as as misstep, as a fanbase with more on their mind were forced to get used to understanding and accepting some extremely difficult circumstances.