10 Times Wrestling Fans Turned On Internet Darlings
7. Mr. Kennedy
The world was his, and then he dropped it at a dangerous angle with a back suplex.
People loved Mr. Kennedy - your writer included - because he pre-dated the workrate era and carried himself like a megastar at a time when WWE could actually build them, or at least persisted after three weeks.
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A gifted mic man, Kennedy's booming proclamations of his own greatness were enough to convince us all of his main event credentials. The confidence he radiated was infectious, and the booking matched it: there was nothing remotely over-ambitious about Kennedy's pledge to cash in his Money In The Bank briefcase at WrestleMania XXIV: he belonged on that stage, and his assurance of that fact was consistent with a character WWE were very committed to putting all the way over.
It was at this point that a plague of rotten luck threatened to babyface a natural heel, which wasn't ideal, but his inner dumbass surfaced to save the day, restoring his heel aura via disastrous media handling.
WWE however didn't have the appetite anymore - he was stigmatised as a sh*t disturber - and when he left, he never did find a set of clothes.