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Old 12-27-2007, 12:06 AM   #36
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Fox, you might be right, but I have a different take on the Carlito situation. It's more of an "Optimists" take:

The earliest thing I ever heard about Carlito's attitude was that he didn't want to be a professional wrestler growing up, but his dad pushed him into the business, and he turned out very talented.

The guy then showed up on SmackDown!, and he did very well. He was really entertaining, and made *ahem* lemonade out of the lemons the WWE gave him. What could have been a shitty gimmick was actually loved by a lot of people, and the WWE obviously had enough faith in the kid's abilities to put him over John Cena, and win the US Title in his WWE debut.

Then Carlito got a break in his arm, or something, and instead of having Carlito remain US Champion by ducking out on Cena, they had Cena get Carlito in a match, and pretty much squash the one-handed Carlito. From there it all went downhill with the guy.

Well, he did move and win the IC Title in his RAW debut from Shelton Benjamin, and he got to be entertaining on RAW for a while. Then the WWE took notice of the pops he was getting, so they did what they do whenever they have a heel getting cheered: ruin his characer and make him a bland babyface. Carlito's face turn was epic boring, and I can't even remember what happened with it. All I know is that people were underwhelmed, and felt the WWE was handling it wrong. They then put the blame on Carlito for implying he was not "acting enough like The Rock."

This is when Carlito began to develop an "attitude." It wasn't Carlito's attitude which invited the poor booking, but the other way around. Carlito never wanted to get into the business, but did it because it was his father's wish, and stuck with it because he was good at it. Then the WWE pushes his dedication to the industry by handling him really poorly? Of course it was enough to demoralize Carlito.

Wasn't Carlito's feud with Ric Flair actually based on his "attitude problems?" And it wasn't just Carlito who spoke out against being left off the WrestleMania card. Flair was voiced his displeasure with their program being forgotten.
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