6 Ways WWE Can Salvage Alberto Del Rio

2. Let Him Be El Patron

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In August 2014, Alberto Del Rio was released from his contract with World Wrestling Entertainment after striking a backstage worker who had been spouting off some awful racist jokes. Del Rio was gone and, whilst many lamented the loss of the Mexican Aristocrat, no one was truly in tears. He had underwhelmed on the whole, growing stale in the process.

Which made it all the more incredible that Del Rio turned up in various promotions outside of WWE as the fiery babyface WWE had always wanted him to be. In fact, Del Rio may be one of the best examples of the restraints WWE puts on its performers having a most negative effect.

In WWE he looks tired, dead behind the eyes and generally disinterested. When he was working as Alberto El Patron in Lucha Underground, Ring of Honor and other promotions, he was the Latino star that WWE so desperately craved. If WWE just let him be a fiery babyface they could have something special on their hands.

As it is, Del Rio continues to spin his wheels because that is exactly what is expected of him.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.