To argue for why I think Bobby Roode deserves a shot in WWE, lets just keep it simple. Lets simply compare Bobby Roode and Curtis Axel. Axel, as you know, is a full-time WWE employee (well, independent contracter if you want to be technical) who gets paid to wrestle on Raw and SmackDown every week despite the fact that he has very few people interested in his character. Roode is a better in-ring wrestler than Axel. He cuts a better promo than Axel. He has more charisma than Axel. The only thing he doesnt have going for him? The fact that hes 37-years-old instead of Axels 34, and that hes not the son of a WWE Hall of Famer. Yes, Roode would probably not ever become a main-eventer in WWE, but he would still be a valuable asset. If nothing else, creative could stick him in a tag team and it would immediately make the division more exciting. After all, Roode was involved in one of the best national tag teams of the past 15 years in Beer Money. There's plenty of floundering mid-carders that could be teamed up with him for a career boost. Now Im not saying that Bobby Roode not being in WWE is wrestlings greatest crime, but if Curtis Axel (I like picking on him, but feel free to insert your own mediocre mid-carder here) has a job there, then so should Roode.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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