10 Times WWE Failed To Replace Wrestlers
5. Diesel (with Fake Diesel)
Fake Diesel's arrival at the "climax" of the fake Razor Ramon's Raw debut against Savio Vega was met more with hostile indifference than earnest hatred from a crowd that had already been exposed to the crux of this lousy concept.
Though Jim Ross was again exceptional on commentary as the bilious and wronged WWE staffer, his indignant complaining could only go so far with a fairly placid on-screen President Gorilla Monsoon not prepared to fully sell the supposed humiliation taking place. And - and the company didn't learn this lesson once after the fact - office talk might be good for a bit of controversial conversation but punters want wrestling, not admin.
It was by the time the fraudulent Diesel arrived to lead a beatdown that the cold reality of this miserable idea exposed itself once and for all. Ross wasn't going to be making talent development jokes forever, but Diesel and Razor were going to wrestle as a tag team as if this bizarre experiment was the most normal thing in the world.