How Vince McMahon's Most Famous WWE Words Will Come Back To Haunt Him
On principle, strictly viewed from the objective of getting a talent over, what WWE has done to Riddle is, to use a Dana White expression, promotional malpractice. Riddle is an insufferable moron, and what's worse is that this isn't even a suboptimal byproduct of the terrible scripting. It is canon. Everybody other than Jeff Hardy - who didn't save him on this week's RAW, so probably him too, come to think of it - thinks he's a complete tw*t. And he is.
The booking of the act is dangerously awful. Everything that led Jon Moxley to leave WWE - and then excoriate the company on his notorious Talk Is Jericho appearance - is happening to Riddle. He is the latest WWE talent with decent comedic timing to devolve into a prop comic. You see, because he likes the word "bro," and is a stoner who likes to eat junk food when he gets the famous "munchies," he carried around a box of bronuts a few weeks ago. This week, he compared the anticipation of a fight to eating pizza, presumably after he has smoked a "bowl".
Next week, Riddle will miss his match because he's waiting on a takeout delivery and promise to act more brofessional when his partner calls him a thick c*nt, or something.
And it's not just the prop comedy or the bunny chat. He's a d*ckweed in the ring, too. He complains about being decisively beaten the week after he faked a tap-out in order to - these oxymorons never fail to be incredible - deceive the heel. He isn't sympathetic. He isn't likeable. He isn't honourable. He isn't funny. He is a d*ck.
He is a WWE babyface.
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