It started with broken promises (people like me picked up on that), then it was him being completely pretentious in interviews. That seeped into his on-air content and presentation. I noticed some people pick up on how much the show gravitated around whatever meaningless crap he was doing. Some had theories he booked himself out the title picture because he knew he couldn’t hang. But the criticism became wider when he cut those awfully constructed promos about race relations and he started branching out into reality and game shows that wrestling fans see as “bullshit.” Since then it’s been a war of attrition between him and the fans who think they’re smart.
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