One MIND-BLOWING Secret From EVERY WWE WrestleMania
7. WrestleMania 35 | Of Course
Lars Sullivan was always going to get a massive push, all going well. He was massive, muscular, and was gifted with a rare, terrifying face. He was protected so well in NXT that he accidentally worked a five star-rated Ladder match at TakeOver: New Orleans. He did embarrass himself at TakeOver: Chicago by selling for a missed Black Mass, but as far as limited guys Vince would force upon you regardless go, Sullivan was not woeful.
Things did not go well; Sullivan reportedly suffered an anxiety attack upon entering the building for his Raw debut on January 7. In what was likely a linked development, it was discovered in May that Sullivan had written a wave of awful stuff under a pseudonym, some of which was directed at WWE employees, on a bodybuilding forum. The content was as vile as it was wide-ranging; it was as if Sullivan was going for the world record in the problematic decathlon.
Sullivan however looked like such a dreamlike Vince heel that he was rolled out the very next month. The extent of the push was limited, though. Limited and weird: he wrestled three opponents at Super ShowDown, in an extension of the original Ryback run, but the match against Lucha House Party was competitive, which accomplished nothing for nobody.
It was a downgrade on the original plan: a match against John Cena at WrestleMania 35. One does not need access to a wormhole to correctly surmise that Cena would have likened Sullivan to Shrek in this alternate timeline.