10 Times WWE Wasted HUGE Teases
8. Sean O'Haire's Not Telling You Anything...
...at all.
The saddest thing about the 2003 devil's advocate repackaging of Sean O'Haire wasn't that WWE didn't pay it off, but that they did. In doing so, they proved that they were losing (or had already lost) their touch of how to transfer something complex to a live setting. Because the original vignettes were electric.
There's a certain quaintness to them now, but that's often the case of anything made to very specifically cater to audiences at the time. On a show trapped in a post-Attitude Era identity crisis and growing staler by the week, O'Haire's contemporary and stylish cut-ins advising the viewers to just do the bad thing they shouldn't do felt like the only vital thing on the show beyond The Rock's exceptional Hollywood heel turn.
When he finally stepped away from the soundstage, he was doomed. First appearing as the devil on Brian Kendrick's shoulder telling him to streak for attention, he then rocked up and told Dawn Marie to...strip...for...attention, before the gimmick was binned entirely.
'Hard friend of Roddy Piper' wasn't quite as textured, and a match against Rikishi at Backlash was as much as the talented giant got out of the run.