10 WWE WrestleMania Moments That Meant NOTHING In Hindsight
6. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
It was hard to feel sympathy for Ken 'Kennedy' Anderson when his motormouth gimmick dared to interject itself into the company's grisliest public relations catastrophe ever.
Piping up about the supposed lack of steroid use within WWE in 2007 shortly before being exposed as a serial user alongside a laundry list of colleagues, his intentions were pure and in full support of an organisation that were ultimately happy to hang him out to dry when his claims only provided additional embarrassment.
It was the story of his year. At WrestleMania 23, Kennedy triumphantly raised the Money in the Bank briefcase above his head with all the confidence of a man rightfully expecting to eventually be WWE Champion. Promising to wait out the full calendar to gift himself a WrestleMania XXIV main event, an injury misdiagnosis months later saw him drop it to Edge instead of ever getting to use it himself. A year on the shelf was reduced to weeks, but Kennedy still had a place in the plans as either/or (depending on sources) the cause of the Mr McMahon character limo explosion and the Chairman's illegitimate son.
Injuries and suspensions axed the lot for him, and he existed on borrowed time for the remainder of his tenure until a clumsy suplex on Randy Orton during his 2009 in-ring return led to an uncharacteristically callous firing.