6 New Directions For Rusev After WWE Clash Of Champions 2016 Defeat
4. Ramp Up The Anti-American Feeling Ahead Of A Huge Return
Alternatively, if you're team are incapable of doing their one and only job why not go balls to the wall on the one piece of sh*t that managed to stick to the wall? If Rusev is going to be the 'Evil Foreigner', let's forget that in 2016 such a gimmick is silly and go all-out with it. Bring back the Russian flag, have the man destroy American traditions and stereotypes on a weekly basis.
You could even make him the most covert babyface in the world, by having him unflinchingly talk of why the world despises America so much, bringing up the hypocrisy and delusions of American foreign policy in the modern age. Heck, talk of the Middle East, Yugoslavia, Latin America, wherever.
Then slowly build to the return everyone in wrestling wants. Sure, it probably won't ever happen, but Rusev issuing an open challenge only to be answered by familiar music and resounding chants of 'You Suck' is the sort of hypothetical moment that hypothetical memories are made from.