WWE ain't smart enough to do a storyline about someone finally becoming champ, and they grow gradually more and more megalomaniacal and we watch the steady, nuanced crash and burn in vice and excess culminating in the new scrappy hero defeating them for the belt.
Nah, they'd fukk that up. I'd want some epic poem type shyt. High art type shyt for that.
Asuka was doing that during her NXT title run before she got injured
she gradually started to subtly cheat to prolong the title run, shyt was seeming like a slow burn heel turn but then she got injured and hotshotted to the main roster when she came back