10 Recent Plot Points WWE Dropped Cold

6. Robert's Roode's Quasi-Repackaging

Robert Roode
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"Glorious! How much can he take? How much can he take, before he's discourteous?"

Those should be the new lyrics for Bobby...sorry, Robert Roode's ever-catchy WWE theme. Roode's latest union with Dolph Ziggler marks another step sideways for the one-time NXT golden boy. OK, so he's 42 years old, making good money and on TV, but Robert's run hasn't been without serious hiccups.

The moustache he wore that made him look like the love child of Tom Selleck and Rick Rude lived on his upper lip for exactly one week in April before he looked in the mirror (not the same one as Mojo Rawley though) and decided growing out some trademark stubble was the best call. In other words, his repackaging was a total flop.

It wasn't even a full repackage job anyway. WWE had Roode shave off his beard, elongate his forename from Bobby to Robert and act the same way he had the last time he played heel. Then, they dropped that in favour of this tag with Dolph, and had announcers occasionally call him Bobby Roode.

Huh?

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