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Alot of interesting stuff there.
I personally am a Cesaro fan, but does anyone have a bigger identity crisis in less than one year on the main roster? I'll recap...
- He started out as the former Swiss rugby player accompanied by Aksana who spoke 5 different languages with horrible theme music.
- Randomly ditched Aksana, received new theme music, had a nice run as US Champ with the persona of being a foreigner who loves American culture but hates Americans. This was his peak.. as he generated good heat as top, up and coming heel.
- Stopped defending the title regularly, and became a jobber to the stars. No longer cut any mic promos and started yodeling before matches (awful).
- Lost the belt and first came out with a hipster look... aviators, a jacket, and some goofy hat.
- Then a few weeks later he now speed walks out to the ring in a weird greco roman style wrestling look, another attire change.
That's a lot of character change for one year, and awful booking by the WWE. I hope he can recover from this.
Moving on, Curtis Axel's push right now kind of reminds me of Tensai this time last year. Both come out making strong debuts main eventing a few Monday Night Raws and getting really big, although cheap wins (both beat John Cena), but neither generates much crowd response. The difference obviously is Axel is a 3rd generation wrestler, has Paul Heyman as his mouthpiece, and has the support of some of the WWE's biggest names. Tensai was a former attitude era wrestler with a gimmick destined to fail, and no wrestling fan with a history of the late 90's, early 00's was going to take him seriously in a main event capacity.. especially with that gimmick. I'm not saying I expect Curtis Axel to become a jobbing comedy act in a year, but I'm hesitant to say he's the next big star either.
Lastly, I'm okay with Kane and Bryan not feuding. They did last summer before joining forces, with Bryan beating Kane at Summerslam. Why waste our time with the same feud, with the same result? I would rather see both amicably part ways.