How THIS Wrestler Has Become WWE's Most Valuable Player In 2020

Things are looking complicated for The Hurt Business right now, with WWE unable to decide whether the group should be bullying heels against Ricochet and Apollo Crews or valiant babyfaces in Raw's fight with RETRIBUTION, leaving them floating awkwardly in-between. Picking one of these directions will steady their course. The heel option is much more compelling, given the group's strengths as characters and relationships with their opponents.

"WWE will ruin it" is an earned cliché because the past ten years tells us that the promotion often will, indeed, ruin it. The Summer of Punk ended with Kevin Nash texting himself, remember. WWE is very good at f*cking great things up.

But MVP has been rolling for close to nine months now, having seemingly established himself as somebody too good to be derailed. Doing so would be absurd, anyway: look at the good he has done for pretty much everybody he has come into contact with on WWE television. Nobody has a track record of helping elevate this many people in this little time over the past few years.

There will come a time when MVP decides he doesn't want to put his body through the grind of competition anymore, and that's fine: his new multi-year contract means he can keep lifting others up as a mouthpiece.

The WWE Performance Center can't produce somebody like MVP fresh out the box. His current state is a result of hard work, experience, and smarts. Rather than grasping for his own spotlight, the 46-year-old has aged gracefully, sharing his shine with anyone fortunate to share a ring with him.

And now his son gets to watch him doing his thing every single week.