10 Specific Ways WWE Stars Can Recover From Awful Booking
9. Bobby Lashley
Roman Reigns isn't working out as the company's top babyface, likely because he is the company's top heel.
Lucky there's a Family Guy!
Yes, in order to engineer cheers on Bobby Lashley's behalf, WWE attempted the sit-down interview route that famously allowed Mick 'Mankind' Foley to connect with WWF crowds. Hilariously, said sit-down interview was considerably creepier than any of the old Mankind vignettes, in which the character was framed as a tormented cellar-dwelling psychopath with rats for mates. Lashley described a harrowing childhood in which his three sisters left him for dead in the woods with an uneasy smile that suggested he had killed and eaten them in retaliation.
The methodology is simple here: do not depict your new leading man as a horror movie villain. Alternatively, reinforce his selling point as a massive man capable of doling out major punishment by doling out major punishment to the outer reaches of the RAW roster, crucially, in the heel role, as a subverted bully version of Braun Strowman as a means of setting the two behemoths on a collision course.
Lashley, and there's no less blunt way of stating this, is f*cking weird - and with steep competition in the big bathturd babyface stakes, any face run, much less this face run, is a complete non-starter.