10 Things In Wrestling That Can’t Be Taught
6. Luck
Big Cass cannot buy a break, having suffered a debilitating ACL tear just as his feud with Enzo Amore was winding down. Then again, since WWE is incapable of booking so many of its acts in consecutive singles programmes, it probably didn’t affect his immediate future.
This dose of bad luck didn’t stop WWE, once he redeveloped through injury that shiny new toy sheen, from pushing Big Cass once more. In fairness to Cass, the injury was very serious, and stripped a man who had little of it much of his mobility. The 2018 version of Cass is even slower than the 2017 “vintage”, which was only ever vintage in the way Michael Cole screeches it with no authority or conviction whatsoever.
A man as tall as Cass is more susceptible than most to leg injuries, which may persuade WWE, reluctantly, to see what most everybody else already does - and scale back his role accordingly. That may be for the best. Without meaning to come across as too mean-spirited - the man’s livelihood is far more important than whether or not your writer or his other detractors enjoys the way he earns it - Cass was more than capable in his role as the power guy in a fun opening act tag team.
He simply isn’t an upper card singles act.