Wrestlers/angles you never “got”
By Scott Keith on February 3, 2014
We all have our guilty pleasures, wrestlers or angles we enjoy despite their massive flaws or silly concepts, etc. (My childhood favorite being Psycho Sid). On the flip side, do either of you have a good example of a wrestler or angle that was generally warmly received or looked fondly upon by a significant portion of the fans, that you just didn't “get?” You don’t necessarily have to hate the guy or storyline, but merely not quite understand why it got over to the degree it did or just didn't see what the big deal was.
For me (and I want to be clear I don’t think the guy was talentless or didn't deserve his push), I never really bought Edge as a main event guy during his upper-card run. I remember him being a bit of a darling to a lot of causal and online fans alike for his heel work against guys like Cena and the Hardys, but he never really did much for me. And don’t get me started on the Vicki Guerrero stuff crica 2006 or so, which I remember was loved by many. I personally couldn't stand the Vicki character (still can’t), and I was rarely entertained by any of it.
Yup, I'm with you on Edge. I like him a lot but I never really bought him as a threat to Undertaker's streak, for example. But then keep in mind that I was WAY out of the loop at the point when he was on top of Smackdown, and Smackdown itself was the last thing I'd be watching, so maybe I just remembered him more as the tag team specialist from years before or something.
I also never got Mr. Kennedy or understood why he was getting the push that he did, given that the entrance was kind of neat but there was nothing to back it up in the ring. I know he wasn't exactly a smark darling or anything, but he had his supporters and I just didn't see it. TNA for sure exposed his emptiness as a character even more, but that's TNA.
It took me a long time to get MVP, but keep in mind he debuted at the tail end of my fandom, just before I dumped the product and went to WWE 24/7 exclusively for years. When I came back in here and there in 2009-10, he was probably a better worker, but the original character never meant anything to me.
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