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8. Selling The Womens Title Match
No matter how bad WWE programming is, one thing that always seems to rise above it all is the companys video packages for matches and rivalries. The people who put those together tend to do an excellent job at condensing a feud into something that fans that havent followed it can digest and understand. But when the product (and feud) is good, like in NXT, then the packages become even better. In the case of Womens Champion Bayley, the video guys used footage of Bayley reading a grade school essay she wrote about become a wrestler (a clip many fans have seen before). But this time, they followed Bayleys career arc from being an 11-year-old girl wanting to be a wrestler, to debuting in NXT, to finally overcoming and beating opponents to earn a title shot. The great part came right after she won, as all the challengers who came out of the woodwork Sasha Banks, Alexa Bliss, Eva Marie and Nia Jax trash-talked Bayley and said she wasnt deserving of being champion. Then we saw Nia (wo)man-handling Bayley. All of this did a tremendous job in making the current champ feel like a total underdog. Thats no small feat.