>>11327284They weren't pushing Rey at all. He jobbed to Orton clean the PPV before. Jobbed to Angle clean before Wrestlemania. He won at 'Mania by pinning the guy who wasn't champion after the actual champ scored a visual submission on the other contestant behind the refused back. And tafter all of that, he'd go on to ne the jobbingest champion the company had ever had up to that point.
Vince didn't want Rey to be champ. He was punishing him for getting too over. And it was supposed to be Batista vs. Orton that year, but Batista had a muscle tear.
