10 Reasons WWE Wanted Rid Of Alberto Del Rio

5. His In-Ring Work Had Slipped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO71AbmZ7S4 In June 2013, at WWE's Pay-Per-View event Payback, Alberto Del Rio had his best match. For the World Heavyweight Championship, he wrestled Dolph Ziggler who was still recovering from a concussion suffered mere weeks earlier. The babyface Del Rio wrestled a match against the heel Ziggler with story-telling that was so brutal that during the match their roles had reversed. When Del Rio lifted his new championship above his head at the top of the entrance ramp it was met with a chorus of boos, and Dolph got back on his feet to the sound of thousands chanting "Ziggler." A so called "double-turn" is notoriously difficult to pull off. Few have been attempted, yet WWE felt confident at Payback in 2013 because of the faith they had in the ability of Dolph Ziggler and Alberto Del Rio. They had trust in the fact that those two men would be good enough in the ring to tell a complex story; they had trust in Alberto Del Rio. A year later, did WWE still have trust in Del Rio? No. His wrestling had become stale, almost formulaic. Technically, he was still delivering. A Del Rio match still looked good, still had some interesting spots and he rarely ever botched. The spark, however, had gone. He was phoning it in. He had gone from someone who could be trusted with a double-turn, to a reliable body you could book to fill time between talking segments on Raw. Perhaps, because...