10 Wrestlers That NOBODY Hated
3. Big E
People wanted the world for Big E, so much so that many felt bad when he did eventually win the World title - much too late - due to the circumstances.
When he cashed in the Money In The Bank briefcase in 2021, he did so in advance, but he defeated a storyline-injured Bobby Lashley. Big E felt opportunistic, even callous, in the moment. He didn't survive against all expectations. He didn't headline WrestleMania after an arduous stint in the Royal Rumble. The odds were stacked against his heel opponent.
It was very much a consolation prize, a tactic with which to not lose against Monday Night Football in quite so humiliating a fashion.
Big E deserved something far grander because he - in the worst of twilight years, game-is-gone Vince McMahon creative - survived something far more gruelling than entering the Rumble at #1. He endured WWE's worst period of booking ever and became, in spite of it, a super-over babyface with universal appeal. Highly entertaining in segments, he was a low-key maniac in the ring - that spear to the outside was framed as the sort of risk all high spots should be - and while you never can tell in this parasocial era, he seemed like one of the most honest, principled and nice dudes ever to step foot in a gross business.
The old cliché has never applied more: if you don't like Big E, you are the problem.