How Vince McMahon Destroyed Typecasting In WWE
He got it wrong again when he misunderstood the cheers for the cool-as-f*ck Kevin Nash in 1994. Diesel was a breakout star in the Royal Rumble for the manner he which he drove through several foes before the field (and then-friend Shawn Michaels) conspired to oust him. He overachieved for the remainder of the year, and his imposing height and electric charisma was enough to convince McMahon to run his organisation on Diesel Power.
It ran out fuel the very second he made the bad*ss a grinning geek.
Sound familiar?
The Shield is WWE's greatest ground-up in-house creation of the decade, but Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose have -at one time or another - all been mowed by the mind that created a smiling Diesel Truck and red, white and blue bus.
What does he see now that none of us do?
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