10 WWE Stars In Vince McMahon's Doghouse Right Now
8. Bobby Roode
By most accounts a tenured and impeccable professional, we doubt that Bobby Roode has triggered management with poor backstage conduct. We can however all too easily imagine another, inexplicable reason for his terminal portrayal on WWE television: his very being!
Much like Dillinger - the man who put him over so well as a heel in NXT, rendering their main roster careers even more of a disgrace - WWE seemed to resent Roode purely because the fans enjoyed singing along with his entrance theme, thus debuting him on SmackDown as a(nother) smiling babyface goof. The whole thing resonated as a sort of careful-what-you-wish-for fable. You want to cheer Bobby Roode? Here's our version of Bobby Roode. He is a swell guy. He says "glorious" a lot, and he smiles.
Roode once projected himself, with some gravitas, in the mold of a legendary NWA Champion.
That was to his cost.
The robe, the understated method of in-ring storytelling, the almost avant-garde body language: it all translated to the dunderheaded main roster creative regime as joke act hangover from the dreaded territory days.