10 Wrestlers You Can Tell HATED Working For WWE
Your Reigning, Defending, BORING Universal Champion.
Working for WWE is framed as the absolute pinnacle of achievement.
All sports entertainers aspire to the main event of WrestleMania - per company rhetoric. Getting there is the hard, or utterly demotivating, part; WWE is a company in which you can be the absolute drizzles in the ring, but as long as you eat enough "chicken and broccoli", and happen to share the heritage of the market the company is expanding into next, you will be awarded a run at the top. The dream, however, so often descends into a nightmare.
"I've spent my entire career perfecting the art of the promo."
"Please recite the words written on your behalf."
"I am a phenomenal high-flyer."
"Tone it down. You're nowhere near the main event."
"But that's how I plan on getting to the ma-"
"Tone it down."
"OK. I'll start working on ideas to flesh out my character instead. I -"
"Please recite the words written on your behalf."
It's a depressing paradox. Working your knackers off, being great, even being over - nothing, it seems, propels you closer to the imaginary brass ring.
Even those who have had it in their grasp often let go out of sheer, inescapable frustration...
10. Gail Kim
Santina Marella was booked to win the Miss WrestleMania Battle Royal at 'Mania 25, which Trish Stratus and Lita wisely ruled themselves out of because they knew it was to be a soul-destroying exercise in agency-stripping - and not even the t*ts-out-for-the-lads Attitude Era version. At least then, they'd have had the camera trained on them for longer than five seconds.
Gail Kim shared this prescience, but being under contract was forced to participate, nonetheless. The women were instructed to trade blows even before Justin Roberts was done announcing the rules, as if they mattered. Kim, who had learnt that she was just a face in a crowd, applied this lesson two years later when, on the August 11, 2011 RAW, she simply eliminated herself from another battle royal.
In fairness, if she knew how Vince McMahon was convinced to hire her in the first place, she would not have made it that far. McMahon had to be made aware of the existence of Asian pornography before he could accept the idea of his public finding her attractive. So, knowing her lot, Kim smiled all the way up the entrance ramp. It was the happiest she had looked in an age.
Either that, or she was terrified at the prospect of a Kid Rock encore. In either event, she cannot be blamed.