The Disturbing Truth Behind WWE's Recent Controversial Decision

The fact that it happened to Dain, and is now happening with Lee, hardly inspires confidence that it won't definitely happen again. Jesus Christ, Brodie Lee somehow got the Dark Order over, and Vince McMahon lost all faith in him because, get this, his topknot came unloose in an AXXESS match with Dominik Dijakovic.

This is standard Vince practise so standard that it's foolish to think better of him, at this point, but altogether more inexplicable was the decision to change Lee's entrance theme. The first bit is a cosmic joke - loads and loads of people like the wrestler, but the person with the power thinks he's unsightly - but the theme tune, f*ck. It's generic butt rock recycled from the Ruthless Aggression days that conveys nothing of his cocksure character.

Lee's next appearance, somehow, was worse. Lee, not the coolest of pro wrestlers, wore something adjacent to a LARP outfit. Not that that is a bad thing in itself, but it's not something the wrestling fan wants to see on their new fave. Whether this was his way of responding to an outfit change edict or not, it did him no favours at all. The presentation was lame and confusing. It was as if Vince McMahon was tinkering with Lee, in real time, after Lee had spent two years in a system designed to do precisely that before he entered his clutches.

There is good and bad everything. Things that are designed to be good are often bad. Rocket-strapped pushes to the moon can, in fact, be bad. "He beat Randy Orton Clean cry-laugh emoji" isn't a well-supported comeback because Randy Orton, a big protected star yes, isn't remotely flattering as an opponent for Keith Lee's strengths. Big pushes can be bad. Look at Vladimir Kozlov.

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