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Originally Posted by Impeccable
If, and that's a bit if...IF it is true that he is unhappy about being "fed" to Batista and that is his motivation for leaving, I would tell him to man the fuck up and be a team player.
When Triple h came back from quad tear in early 02, they needed someone strong, someone credible to feed to him. That someone was Kurt Angle. By that point multiple time champion Kurt Angle. I think this is a similar scenario. They have re-signed a main event talent and need someone strong to put him over.
I'd see it as a compliment.
Be a company guy ADR.
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The difference being the company still had a lot of faith in Angle and put him in main event feuds at the top of the card consistently after making Triple H look good before his Mania spot. Angle headline Mania the following year, putting over the company's most recent homegrown star to that point, and headlined again with Eddie, then a stellar match with HBK, followed by another headline match as WHC at Mania 22.
It's not even remotely the same. Angle was not being "fed" to anyone. He was simply being used to help reestablish another main eventer, and eventually went back to main eventing himself and still staying incredibly relevant.
ADR is not getting that treatment. As Mr. Guycott said, his fall from grace as been rapid. Three months ago, he was WHC and the "main event" of SD. He loses to Cena, and falls of the face of the company. He jobbed to Sin Cara a few times, who then went nowhere with it, and is now being fed to Batista as fodder prior to Mania. And there's zero sign of hope beyond Elimination Chamber that ADR is ever going to be given anything of significance to do ever again.
I don't blame him. He's clearly going to put Batista over and likely give Bats a very solid outing. But him seriously considering leaving the company shortly thereafter is a legitimate line of thinking considering how irrelevant he's become, and, due to unified titles, how little chance there is for him to ever crack the main event again.