Huge Backstage Heat On WWE Star

Why WWE is burying this SmackDown wrestler over and over at the moment.

by Andy H Murray
Top Dolla Los Lotharios
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Backstage heat with members of the creative team could be the reason behind Top Dolla's current treatment on WWE television.

Dave Meltzer reports on Wrestling Observer Radio that the Hit Row member has "some enemies on the creative team." Top Dolla, who "is not very popular with some people", was dealt what Meltzer described as "the burial of all burials" on last week's SmackDown, dropping Hit Row's stage of a tag team gauntlet match to The Brawling Brutes in around eight seconds.

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Top Dolla has been dealt a rough on-air hand since botching an attempted dive over the top rope on a December 2022 SmackDown episode. Commentator Michael Cole has made a concerted effort to remind fans of this since then, repeatedly burying the big man even six months later.

Hit Row's last televised win on WWE television came on the 20 January episode of SmackDown, where they toppled Los Lotharios. Top Dolla and Ashante 'The Adonis' have wrestled only one regular two-on-two match lasting longer than five minutes in 2023.

Completed by B-Fab, Hit Row has been back in WWE since August 2022, when they were amongst the first of Paul 'Triple H' Levesque's re-hires as Chief Content Officer.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for six years and is currently WhatCulture's Senior Wrestling Reporter. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.