10 Wrestlers Who Improved At Something They Were Terrible At
7. Jay White - Being A Heel
Jay White hardly projected himself as a heel at Wrestle Kingdom 12, which was almost impressively unimpressive, given that the best pure babyface in wrestling history, Hiroshi Tanahashi, sold selflessly for him. It was elementary stuff. He simply grabbed Tanahashi by the throat and loudly questioned his status as the Ace, while everybody else questioned his instant mega-push. It was a one-dimensional and methodical performance incongruous to the lightning bolt bastardry boasted by the likes of Tetsuya Naito and Kenny Omega.
Jay graduated and became White hot in the summer months.
Crashing Juice Robinson against the guardrail more times than he slammed him to the canvas at G1 Special In San Francisco, before suffocating his opponents underneath the ring apron throughout the G1 proper, White became attuned to the main event environment by unlocking the physical environment around him to legitimately loathsome effect. He performs now with such unabashed dishonour that he has completely disassociated himself from the Young Lion of old.
He is a despicable piece of sh*t. He luxuriates in his villainy. Like the best storytellers, he no longer tells Tanahashi, nor us: he shows it.