10 Most Believable Performers In WWE Today
2. Bobby Roode
...because the man is suitably glorious in his role as deluded demi-God.
Even at its best, just prior to the introduction of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff as Executive Producers, TNA was a distant second to WWE in most every department. Bobby Roode was always possessed of significant star potential - but his rate of in-ring improvement was, sadly, never matched by his employer.
It's easy to criticise WWE; seemingly unable to elevate anybody to John Cena's stratospheric echelon, the company is all too often a bloated mess - one at controlling odds with the very philosophy on which the industry was built. The best acts in wrestling history were mostly extensions of themselves - and it's only recently that WWE have begrudgingly acknowledged that indisputable fact.
For all its faults, it is peerless in the production department. Bobby Roode's G.O.A.T.-level "Glorious Domination" theme has accomplished in ten seconds what TNA failed to do in ten years - make the man a genuine superstar. It is a testament to Roode's ultra-convincing portrayal as an entitled blowhard that he has emerged from its shadow.
Somehow, it's not the best part of his act.