10 Candidates For WWE’s Next Bizarre Push

7. Mojo Rawley

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The Mojo Rawley push has already sort of happened, but, as is often the case, WWE forgot all about it weeks later.

Rawley acquitted himself well; his Kickoff match with Zack Ryder at Clash Of Champions conveyed his darkened heart to believable effect. It was, by some distance, the best performance Rawley has ever delivered - not difficult perhaps, when his babyface repertoire was once remindful of an excitable puppy with its lipstick hanging out. The timing of said push was hardly ideal, coming so close to WrestleMania season, but with Rawley's genuine improvement, his standing as a from-scratch Performance Center prospect, and the celebrity circles in which he mixes, there's a firm chance WWE resets it in late April despite (or cynically, because of) the imminent influx of superior and more popular NXT talent.

If Rawley does become a fixture on our screens once more, as opposed to the man punching the bag that is Tye Dillinger on the house show circuit, it would be nice if jettisoned the colourful trunks for a jet-back colour palette, to allow us to disassociate from the most irritating babyface act in living memory.

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