10 WWE "Shoot" Moments Absolutely Nobody Believed

As we'll touch upon again later, WWE have a habit of trying to recapture lightning in a bottle.

If something new generates a genuinely shocked and explosive reaction from the live crowd, you can guarantee it will only be a matter of time before they try to pull the trigger on that same secret weapon again. However, there's one glaring problem with this mentality; Once a fresh visual or event has been witnessed and people have figured out how the moment was achieved, you'll likely never recreate the shock and awe which met its initial reveal.

Alexa Bliss' ability to convincingly make us believe she's broken her arm unfortunately falls into this category. Though the sight of Bliss dislocating her elbow is still a tad disturbing, it was hard to fully invest in the star actually being injured during her 2017 Great Balls of Fire match with Sasha Banks due to the fact that we'd seen this trick play out on-screen once before.

Bliss had pulled off the exact same feat during a bout with Becky Lynch on SmackDown in 2016, popping it straight back in to defeat "The Man" on the blue show. Bliss would then show off her impressive double-jointedness again after both of these matches during her 2018 SummerSlam bout with Ronda Rousey. Yet, by this point, fans were well and truly clued up on how this "shoot" injury was put together.