>>17803975>>17803988>>17803991That man was getting louder pops than 75% of the main roster and they made him into a wheelchair prop in a John Cena love triangle. They literally wrote a storyline where Kane chokeslammed him into oblivion in a neck brace. In front of his crush. While Cena just stood there. I wanted to rip my tv off of the wall.
This is what happened when someone dared to get over without Vince’s permission. You can’t color outside the lines. You can’t build your own buzz. You can’t be likable unless it’s on their terms. Meanwhile we had dudes on TV every week with the charisma of unbuttered toast getting five segment matches and title feuds. Don’t even get me started on them taking over his YouTube show. They moved it to WWE’s channel, sanitized it, neutered it, and basically shoved a PG rated cattle prod up its ass until it was just another soulless segment nobody wanted to watch. They took everything that made it his and turned it into corporate content.
Zack Ryder created the template for self made success in modern wrestling and got punished for it.
