8 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Lana
4. An Ill-Timed Reference
One of Lana's strengths is the art of the pre-match heel promo. Rusev's entrances are often given a greater degree of menace and foreboding by his manager's harsh tones, although many felt that her work at Battleground 2014 overstepped the mark.
Lana referred to "recent current events" while bashing the USA and praising Russia, with many taking this as a reference to Malaysian Airways Flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine earlier that same week.
Although not quite as ill-advised as WWE's decision to air Muhammad Hassan's infamous Undertaker segment the same week of the London bombings, this promo still stirred up a lot of controversy the company would probably rather we erased from our memories.