20 Most Underrated WWE Stars Of The Past 20 Years
17. Summer Rae
The most underrated woman on the current WWE roster who isn’t an Australian submission expert, Danielle ‘Summer Rae’ Moinet has been saddled with some of the worst, most tired tropes that the former Divas Division has ever seen, and knocked ‘em all out of the park.
She was the senior partner in NXT’s BFFs stable of villainous women with Sasha Banks and Charlotte. Both those women have gone on to front the NXT Women’s Division and the main roster’s equivalent, winning the respective top titles, while Summer... became Fandango’s dance partner.
She’s almost exclusively been booked to be someone’s girlfriend, or a jealous catfighting vamp, or someone’s jealous, catfighting vamp girlfriend. Sometimes it’s seemed that the company were set to turn her into a full time wrestler rather than a bad soap star, but every time Summer Rae has appeared to be on the brink of being taken seriously, the WWE have relegated her to being a human hissy fit again.
She’s had good quality matches with pretty much every woman on the NXT and WWE rosters over the last four years. You’d be forgiven for not remembering any of them, though, since most of the actual television angles she’s been involved in have positioned her as bitter eye candy.
Despite that, she’s excelled: she was shoehorned into the car crash Lana/Rusev/Ziggler angle of 2015 in the middle of the second act, and still managed to steal the show in yet another thankless role.
Drafted to RAW in this summer brand split, Summer Rae has been less than an afterthought ever since, partly due to injury, partly due to... well, the usual. She deserves better: but then she always has.