10 WWE Things That Must Happen Before WrestleMania 38

4. End This Nonsense

Alexa Bliss
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The Fiend and the current version of Alexa Bliss split opinion unlike anything else in professional wrestling. Whether you think their supernatural hokum breaks the sport's accepted reality and psychology or believe the gimmicks to be creative, interesting, and unique, it's hard to look at their current booking patterns positively.

Bray Wyatt might play a murder clown and a horror movie villain, but he was supposed to be taken as the babyface in his Randy Orton feud. He lost at WrestleMania. Written of television after being burnt to a crisp by the supposed villain three months prior, he fell to that old WWE chestnut, the distraction finish, jobbing out in six minutes.

Where once The Fiend was impervious to regular finishers, he fell to a single RKO.

Strip away the characters' wackier elements (Alexa, infantilised as she is, is currently under a possessed doll's control) and you're left with an incomprehensible booking pattern that should probably be burned down itself.

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