Why Vince McMahon Won’t Push Luke Harper
The past dictates the future.
Did Luke Harper’s southern accent come out Jamaican?
“The Wyatt Family will rise again, mon!”
Is this why Vince McMahon refused to use him upon his return from injury in 2019, and why his presence was inconsistent and in a near-constant flux throughout his post-Wyatt Family career?
The past dictates the future. This is a truism especially true of WWE, in which ingrained mentalities are infamously resistant to change. To gauge whether Luke Harper’s shock return will materialise as a sustained push, his strange journey must first be revisited.
Harper signed with WWE years and years before the company signed or attempted to sign everybody. He wasn’t known to Vince McMahon of course, but still, back in 2012, talents were signed under the idea that they would one day work on the main roster, as opposed to now, where they are signed, re-signed or frozen in order to not sign elsewhere.
Harper seemed to intersect the outlooks of Vince McMahon and Triple H, who was deep into the process of taking over from John Laurinaitis as the head of developmental. A very tall performer with a distinct look and a supreme level of skill—an advancement on what it meant to be a hoss—Harper was destined for big things…
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