Well, That Was The Worst WWE Career Ever

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He explained his credentials as a fan and prospective talent in a segment alongside Mojo Rawley and Michael Cole, which an interrupting King Corbin didn't take a liking to. He did so with no fear; after all, two honourable, fun-loving babyfaces were hardly going to gang up on him. He was right: three did, after Elias arrived on the scene. Mojo ducked behind Corbin, and the Gronk pushed him over. WWE's next big legitimate celebrity babyface revealed himself to be a bully - or at least the absolutely useless scripting did - within minutes. Gronk, your host of WrestleMania, was a horny as*hole who evoked memories of the challenging adolescence once faced by the famously popular and well-liked wrestling fan.

He was inoffensive as the host really. He looked visibly nervous reading from the teleprompter. He didn't do much at all on either night beyond his one big move stunt move and 24/7 Championship win. The Gronk was asked to perform one move on WWE television. One. That move was a dive.

The Miz turned up to the Performance Center sick over the WrestleMania tapings. Perhaps Gronk was scared that his notorious inability to catch was infectious; this might explain why he held up the tapings, per a report from Fightful, for several hours. In a wild and yet not unexpected Vince McMahon story for the ages, he demonstrated the safety of the manoeuvre to ease the Gronk's fears. Gronk eventually went ahead with it, swerve-turning on Mojo Rawley - whose existence is conditional on Gronk's, what a sh*t friend! - to leave with that ugly f*cking novelty jukebox they call a comedy belt.

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