10 Candidates For WWE’s Bizarre Post-WrestleMania 35 Push
6. No Way Jose
No Way Jose feels less like a professional wrestler, and more like a test.
Even in 2015, Vince McMahon was in the process of aiming captive bolt pistols into the temple of every promoted NXT cow. "He's f*cking with me," Triple H said, as Dolph Ziggler of all people went over Tyler Breeze 2-1 in the latter's introductory programme. "He is, isn't he?"
Driven by paranoia, Trips devised a test scenario: he created a focus group "Vince McMahon Midcard Sports Entertainer". He called him No Way Jose, and built the gimmick in order to meet various, patented criteria. This guy has a good, hulking body. He has dumbass hair WWEShop.com can make into a wig. He wears a massive, ever-present "big smile out there". He - and this is paramount, this is the way to extract a sly yuk from Gorilla, perhaps even a boisterous impression - dances.
There is but one, fatal flaw in Triple H's fiendish masterplan: his entrance music is too engaging for the crowd, who had far too much mild fun dancing alongside it. That won't do, and thus the test fails.
No Way Jose exists to awaken that crowd early doors, but is not allowed entry into the building. He isn't getting over (because he isn't there) and so, in May 2019, No Way Jose becomes, simply, 'Jose' - a new heel act who doesn't want to have fun anymore. He wants to scratch and claw his way to the top.
He tumbles off the side of Titan Towers after three weeks.