12 Perfect Ways To Retire Current WWE Gimmicks (And How)

6. Bayley

OK. Bayley just wrestled in a 30-minute ironman match and has had a series of hard-hitting matches against top competitors throughout 2015. The idea of this now grizzled women's wrestler dressing like an eight-year old girl might be done. The moment that Bayley stood in the ring with ACTUAL eight-year old girl Izzy, her gimmick as adult-sized child passed its peak effectiveness. The time has come for Bayley to look like an adult, and in doing show show little girls everywhere that when they grow up, that they can eventually become adult-sized adult heroines like Bayley. Imagine Alexa Bliss coming out one week and burying Bayley's gear and bearing down the current NXT Women's CHampion to the point that she makes Izzy cry. Bliss bullying Bayley into standing up for herself "like a real WOMAN" and reflecting this by dressing like one, would be a necessary character development point. As ground-breaking as Bayley's character is, there's going to either be a point where she gets too old for this adult-sized child thing to keep holding weight. It needs to stop now.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.