10 Modern WWE Moments You Totally Don't Remember

6. The Curious Case Of Brendan Vink

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Since Riddick Moss has resurfaced in RAW Underground - like so much in this company, that sentence doesn't make a lick of sense - Brendan Vink remains WWE's preeminent whodeyfookisdatguy.

The weirdest thing about Vink is that he was just there, and it was weird that he was just there because it was almost framed as if he was always there.

"That's Brendan Vink! From NXT! You know, the guy who...hasn't been on TV at all. That Vink."

No vignette, no trade, no nothing. Again, there was a certain Lynchian nightmare logic to this, one that would be designed to derange your perception of things, were it done on purpose. It wasn't. WWE struggled for bodies amid stay-at-home orders, and because it would grim fans out to remind them of it - dingy shows in an empty gym apparently did not - Vink was just there, working exhibition matches, as Vince said to himself "Contractually, this passes for original content".

At least acknowledge the situation, explain why Vink was there, and build him as somebody who could potentially take a spot or something. And if he was just a jobber, maybe don't put him over f*cking Ricochet in four minutes and 30 seconds.

Ricochet is getting a blue dot superimposed over his face soon enough, the poor prick...

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