10 Things You Didn't Know About Sean O'Haire

3. It€™s Partly Hot Rod€™s Fault He Never Made It

Even though €˜the Devil€™s Advocate€™ gimmick was doomed to be abandoned, and O€™Haire€™s run with Hogan was in an enforcer capacity rather than as his own feud, an angle with Hulk Hogan, Vince McMahon and €˜Rowdy€™ Roddy Piper is nothing to sniff at. O€™Haire was going great guns in the role, which could have potentially have set him up for something huge down the line: but he was the junior partner in the angle, the hulking henchman tasked with taking down Hogan on behalf of Piper and McMahon, the big heel authority figure. If he€™d screwed up, the angle might still have worked with someone else in the role€ but without the senior partners in the mix, there was no angle to begin with. So naturally it was Piper€™s mistake that messed everything up. Piper had appeared on an HBO sports programme, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, with a remit to discuss the darker side of professional wrestling, and specifically in relation to drug use within the industry. Piper seriously aggravated a whole host of people in WWE with his outspoken comments, and was working without a contract at the time: it was the simplest matter in the world to simply decide to stop using him on television, which effectively nipped O€™Haire€™s involvement in the McMahon/Hogan angle in the bud. No Piper, no O€™Haire. Relegated to C-show Velocity while creative tried to come up with a storyline for him, O€™Haire would spend the next five months cooling his heels waiting. And waiting. Put out temporarily due to a minor injury caused by a motorcycle crash, when he returned he was sent back to OVW yet again. The decision to leave WWE at this point was mutual: O€™Haire felt that WWE wanted him to be someone he wasn't, and wasn€™t prepared to sit and squander his life waiting for them to make up their mind to use him. However, WWE clearly had some form of regard for him: Sean O€™Haire didn€™t lose a single singles match in 2003. They just couldn€™t make up their mind how to use him.
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