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As the face of the company? Yeah, he does a little bit. He doesn't go for technical wizards all the time, but Hogan, Bret, Shawn, Austin, Rock, Triple H, Brock, Cena and Reigns are all much better wrestlers than Braun is. He'd be the biggest and the least skilled of them all. Braun would actually be a departure from what Vince usually looks for.
We've got an influx of smaller guys doing twice as much because that's how the business has devalued itself. You need to do twice as much to get "over" with a dwindling audience. Triple H hires them because he wants to get over as the head of developmental and Vince puts them on TV because that's who is coming through the pipeline in NXT. They're factored into functional positions. But the plan has been Reigns since at least 2012.
I love Cesaro as much as the next guy. Him getting fucked up in 2014 still has me sore. But he got the chance to move t-shirts and it didn't really happen. The Cesaro Section thing was something I wanted to catch on, but it just didn't. Heyman had his hands tied and was told to talk about Brock, but there's a reason for that -- they didn't want him to be the guy. Cena and Reigns don't have managers talking for them. Brock is the exception because he's Brock. If Cesaro moved numbers like Brock, then he could be in that position, but he doesn't, so Vince won't put him in that position.
Baron Corbin is a fucking mess. I have no clue what Vince sees in the guy there, but it's probably enhanced by backstage stuff and him just giving Vince that mental stiffy. Who knows what Vince and doesn't see sometimes. I think he's dead wrong about Corbin if he thinks he's got something there. But Corbin is still more competent than Strowman in the ring. He's boring as fuck, but he's not as sloppy.
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