>>15069488It's insanely hard to get wrestlers to get personal enough to tap into who they truly are (viewers can/will sense insincerity) and put it on screen for storylines.....but not get so close to the wrestlers that you now feel you must keep them on the roster even when they have an oversized ego, injury-prone, injure others or not a good worker.
Look at all the shaming tactics for Dijak yesterday. 37 years old, 7 years in WWE, worked 29 matches in 2023. You'd think he was 48 years old, WWE for 25 years, and worked 135 matches. Instead we get the collective shaming, "how could they let this guy go? boo hoo", they "made a terrible mistake", and all this other nonsense. The reality is that he was a lightly-used big man who wanted to keep riding the gravy train, WWE said no, and this man has no interest in actually hitting the indies and working his ass off so AEW or someone else offers him big money. He's like Mace/Mansour, he wants to sit around and play video games and work 1 match per week while making $400,000/year. Welcome to reality.
