Every WWE Gimmick Match And The Wrestlers That Defined Them
20. ...On A Pole Match - Bayley
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The trademark of Vince Russo, WWE's experiments with the gimmick were equally brainless. The ...On A Pole Match is sh*tty by default. The most damaging version yet of a stip that is invariably unnecessary was far worse than that.
The Bayley character was ruined for years, plural, by the events of June 4, 2017, in which she was portrayed as a laughably ineffective wallflower. Was she too afraid, or too noble, to use the kendo stick? She was too stupid, ultimately. This, to frame it in a way Russo might understand, was Pygmalion Swerved; the match ostracised Bayley as a feature character, and defined the main roster's mistreatment of it.
The ...On A Pole Match is a ladder match without the dramatic danger of the climb, nor the invention the ladder affords. It is awful, and it made everybody think Bayley was awful.