#4 Kaitlyn and AJ Lee
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One of the rare positives to come out of the third season of NXT, where an all-female roster was subjected to pointless non-wrestling related tasks and promo scripts, was AJ Lee. Her presence in today’s product is sorely missed, and her contributions as a wrestler and talker would certainly fit in with what the company are trying to do with their female roster today.
Another NXT alumni from that season was Kaitlyn, who actually went on to win the series altogether. From the very start, she and AJ had great chemistry and had obviously formed a healthy friendship on and off air. The two were put together as a tag team after graduating to the main roster, feuding with the likes of Tamina, Alicia Fox and the Divas of Doom - Natalya and Beth Pheonix.
The two worked as a kind of big sister/little sister dynamic, with the stronger, larger Kaitlyn always looking out for her friend - a bit like a female Enzo and Cass.
This kind of pairing always paves the way for a split further down the road, and this is exactly what happened. Kaitlyn grew tired of constantly having AJ’s back and being on the receiving end of so many losses as a result. This helped AJ morph into her vulnerable, easily manipulated persona that Daniel Bryan would later take advantage of when the two of them started an on-screen relationship.
AJ and Kaitlyn would meet again further down the line, this time with AJ Lee as the manipulative, unhinged heel and Kaitlyn as the face. AJ became the number one contender for Kaitlyn's Divas Championship which started a feud in which Lee would play mind games with her adversary, convincing Big E to pretend he had a crush on the champ. All of this worked in AJ's favour as she became the Divas Champion for the first time.
The storyline continued with Lee managing to retain her title with the help of various people. It was not until a mix tag-team match at Summerslam 2013 where Kaitlyn would finally get her revenge, teaming up with Dolph Ziggler to defeat the team of AJ and Big E.
This feud was given a decent amount of time in comparison to most diva feuds of that era. It was occasionally able to mix in with other male feuds going on at the time, but was ultimately an example of how valuable these women were to the company. It’s a shame we no longer see these two on WWE television anymore, especially considering what they would be able to achieve with a deeper, more talented roster.
