10 Coldest Performers In WWE Right Now
Oh, Enzo Amore.
This list is shaped relatively.
It isn't a ranking of which jobber is the worst jobber - mostly for the sake of variety and to avoid drilling into the minutiae of why Curt Hawkins is slightly worse at selling offence for a minute and a half than Primo Colón.
The status of these performers isn't necessarily - or at all - their fault. RAW has largely lived up to its rich legacy in recent weeks. as the much-maligned creative regime remembers that it is Big 4 pay-per-view season. The Dean Ambrose/Seth Rollins reconciliation angle has revitalised both men to a level thought inconceivable just a couple of months back. All four men involved in the SummerSlam headliner appear very much as the monsters they have been depicted as. That match - Godzilla Vs. Biollante Vs. Gigan Vs. Destoroyah - has been hyped brilliantly. Even Akira Tozawa Vs. Neville has been lent a degree of intrigue, even if the method was dubious at best. Elsewhere, outliers and name stars alike are caught in the cogs of the spluttering WWE machine, either as ill-fitting parts or out of date software.
In some cases, the apathetic booking is catching, infecting the performance levels of those victimised by it.
10. Mike Kanellis
Is Mike Kanellis already knackered?
He's done what boils down to nothing at all on SmackDown Live, given that his sole televised win - over Sami Zayn on the July 18 SmackDown - was retconned at Battleground. He also lost a meaningless tag team bout alongside Aiden English to Zayn and Tye Dillinger on the very next SmackDown. He didn't really show much in any of those three bouts, either. He spent the vast majority of his time on the receiving end of offence - from Sami Zayn, perennial punching bag, remember - which probably served his cowardly character. But what is his character, really? A catchphrase and an awesomely cheesy entrance theme?
It's baffling. There's no other word for it. There must have been some sort of long-term plan in place; why else debut the double act on the main roster proper? Isn't that what Triple H insists upon when batting away accusations that too many talented acts are doing anything of real significance in WWE?
All we have at this point are questions - but Kanellis, unquestionably, is dead on arrival.