10 Wrestlers Who Have Suffered The Most Since WrestleMania 34

4. Nia Jax

Nia Jax
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WrestleMania 34 represented the pinnacle of Nia's main roster career. She earned plaudits in the build through believably lashing out at tormentor Alexa Bliss, and most received her arc as a genuinely nice spot of progressivism.

The mood soured when she failed the character test she passed (!) by treating an enhancement talent like a dummy in her attempt to intimidate Ronda Rousey mere weeks later. A victim of copy and paste scripting - the sneering words she used, bar the fat jokes, were identical to those she raged against a month or so ago - Nia's personal inability to perform has irked the audience yet further. She is green in virtually every respect, a completely manufactured and inauthentic performer who requires propping up. And, when WWE removes any foundational logic supporting her character, she falls and falls hard into an abyss.

The woman holding the RAW Women's Title is easily the worst performer in the division. And, to prove that WWE is an insane institution, the exact same thing is happening on Tuesday nights.

"Ronda is still very new to WWE," Nia Jax said on this week's RAW. That was a laugh. Ronda has wrestled one match, a classic, while Nia is evergreen.

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