5. Rooney!
Wayne Rooney is popular I hear. Im not much of a sports guy, so I didnt know who he was before Mondays Raw. Thats probably more of a knock on my knowledge about non-predetermined sports than anything, but I just saw this non-wrestler slap Wade Barrett in the face, and he sold it like hed been shot. I will never, ever, understand WWE continually pushing non-fighters over their own talent. If Rooney can make Wade look so foolish, so easily, shouldnt he be in the company instead? It took Neville 15 minutes to beat King Barrett on SmackDown, Rooney could do it in like five seconds. Why am I watching second rate fighters, who can get beat up by football players and that guy from Arrow? Mike Tyson knocking out Shawn Michaels after a match at WrestleMania 14? Makes sense. The guy is trained to punch people in the face. Stephanie McMahon selling for the first time in the past decade for Ronda Rousey made sense as well. Couldnt WWE have asked Rooney to take the punch instead? Would that have hurt his career or anything? Probably not, but it sure makes Barrett look like a wuss. But hey, publicity, right?
Andrew Soucek
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."
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