Do you enjoy watching an overweight man dancing to funk music? If you answered "yes", would you also enjoy watching this exact same act 100 times? Such was the downfall of The Funkasauras Brodus Clay. WWE tricked us with Clay back in 2012. For weeks, we were shown vignettes of him returning to the main roster as a monster heel. We kept hearing that he was going to show up "next week", well for some reason the debut kept getting delayed. Finally, he showed up, and it was downright shocking. Clay was no longer a mean dude out to destroy everyone. Instead, he just wanted to dance. He was decked out in shiny pants, and a matching hat. It actually was kind of popular...for a few weeks. Clay debuted in January, and it seemed that the character peaked just months later at WrestleMania XXVIII when he had a dancing segment with his "mommas." It was terrible. After that, he was on a downward slope to irrelevancy. The dance was no longer fun, it was just a two minute entrance that began to drag on and on. Part of the problem was that Clay didn't have feuds. He showed up on TV, wiggled around, had a short match, and then repeated it the following week. Adding Hornswoggle and later Tensai to the act didn't do him any favors. It just weighed him down. Even the entrance started to get cut from TV half the time, which was pretty much the entire point of the act. Vince McMahon lost interest in him quickly, and moved onto other newer things. It took Clay close to two years to get rid of the Funkasauras moniker, but the damage is most likely done for good.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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