How Vince McMahon's Most Famous WWE Words Will Come Back To Haunt Him

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It's not just Riddle. So many of these babyfaces are unfunny dorks. A couple of weeks ago, WWE penned a segment in which it would apparently have been funny if Kofi Kingston acted more obnoxiously than The Miz. It was not funny. The Mix is comedy anathema. His words and the cadence with which he speaks them are a zipper to the urethra. At least, if a sharp pain coursed through the most sensitive part of your body, you'd feel something.

Ricochet is a happy-go-lucky loser. Charlotte Flair is a prick to her dad. AJ Styles just turned face - we only know this because he wrestles heel opponents now - and he still has a man-mountain of a bodyguard informing his victories. Keith Lee is not that bad, on balance, but he doesn't face any great heroic struggle. He just squabbles a bit with other babyfaces. The Fiend infantilised and seduced Alexa Bliss - she plays on a swing-set and giggles like a child, this, after touching his face and describing the attraction as like a "moth to a flame" - and this gaslighting monster was the babyface in his programme with Randy Orton.

Jeff Hardy is not a bad person. He meets the entry-level babyface requirement. Asuka does too. But wait - there are three halfway likeable characters on RAW!

Drew McIntyre is the real rule-proving exception, when he isn't not saving Sheamus to justify the Irishman's upcoming heel turn.

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