10 WWE Stars In Vince McMahon's Doghouse Right Now

Bark, bite, it's all bad news...

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In times past, a WWE independent contractor once had to commit an actual transgression to enter the fabled "doghouse" of Vince McMahon.

Dan Severn effectively put an end to his his mainstream wrestling career when, in 1998, he hinted that Ken Shamrock and virtually the entire WWF roster was juiced to the gills, with the bumbling obliviousness of Art Donovan. Mickie James performed a "V-lick" gesture at WrestleMania 22 that Vince McMahon deemed lewd and offensive while, in parallel, green-lighting angles ripe with rape connotations. Where the Acolytes saw fit to welcome the Public Enemy into the WWF by caving their faces in, Saturn was punished with a less wooden love interest than Claire Lynch for beating the p*ss out of a jobber at a Metal taping.

It was a different world.

In modern times, his acts are too sh*t-scared to speak up for themselves. Mission accomplished! A quiet roster too compliant to cause him headaches. Except, it is this weak, "millennial" mentality that causes McMahon to lash out at them, citing a lack of ambition. He also punishes ambition. It's almost as if there is no pleasing the man.

When he treats even his beloved Big Dog as a loser, it's little wonder that many of his peers find themselves in a small house at the bottom of his yard...

10. Nia Jax

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Nia Jax is generating actual heat, heat reported on by Dave Meltzer and evidenced via a social exchange loaded with intrigue - as opposed to the heat we can mostly only infer through dismal characterisation elsewhere.

Per the rumour and innuendo, Nia Jax and Alexa Bliss have legit fallen out, which explains why they have "quietly unfollowed" one another on social media. Jax fuelled the fire by tweeting "For someone that doesn’t care what anyone thinks it’s weird they have to go out and get a tattoo that says they’re enough," in reference to Alexa's "I Am Enough" tattoo marking her battle with anorexia. So, in addition to being an untalented and dangerous beneficiary of nepotism, Nia is also classless.

This displeased management.

We are none the wiser as to why this is all happening - perhaps Alexa grew tired of narrowly avoiding serious injury in their series of matches, and lashed out - but it seems as though it definitely is happening; usually, when the Twittersphere enquires about such clearly-worked social media beefs, Meltzer replies with a delightfully withering deadpan.

Expect a humiliating burial at Extreme Rules, and expect to be told to forget all about it when WWE inevitably resumes her push later this year.

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