Paige vs. Emma. Credit WWE.com
3. Paige and Emma
These best friends may not get the chance to main event anything, nonetheless a WrestleMania. Paige and Emma’s encounters have been fleeting and given their current situations, may never happen again. When they did meet, however, it was excellent. At the first ever NXT special event, NXT Arrival, Paige defended the NXT women’s championship against Emma. It was probably the last time they truly crossed paths in WWE. With the biggest audience to date for the new era of women’s wrestling in NXT, it was their job to make this happen. They delivered with high-impact spots including our first look at Paige’s PTO. Emma sold it like it was the most awful experience of her entire life.
Since coming up to the main roster, the most notable interaction was the 30-second tag match against the Bella Twins that lead to #GiveDivasaChance. Instead of a full blown rivalry, we’ll have to settle for Instagram photos and Total Divas episodes of them hanging out together. One of Paige’s dream matches? “I would want to go up against Emma, in an extreme rules match at Madison Square Garden in New York,” she said to Gorilla Position in 2015. We can only hope that’s still yet to come.