5 Best & 5 Worst Moments From WWE Raw's 3 Hour Era
9. WORST: Bella Tension
At SummerSlam 2014, Brie Bella was defeated by Stephanie McMahon in a rather tragic payoff to the Authority vs Daniel Bryan story following Bryan's abdication of the World Heavyweight Title.
As his real life wife, Brie was forced to take the brunt of the Authority's abuse until she walked off the job in disgust. In her absence, Nikki was fed to the wolves instead, which led to her shocking turn on her sister to aid Stephanie in victory at the summer supercard.
If only that crumb of common sense had been more laboured upon.
Despite the thin veneer of logic, WWE quickly embraced their lowest common denominator storyline instead, as Nikki went off on weekly diatribes about how Brie was always the favourite when they were kids, how she'd steal all her boyfriends, and how selfish and spiteful she had been all their lives.
That Brie's acting couldn't effectively convey if Nikki was actually lying was only part of the problem when they engaged in a public slanging match during an August edition of Raw.
Shortly before employing Jerry Springer as a moderator and ultimately reuniting with virtually zero explanation, heel Nikki ripped into her tearful sister, calling her a 'pathetic hot mess' before screaming in her face that she wished Brie had died in the womb. The supposedly shocking line fell painfully flat, as fans completely disconnected from the listless conflict.