[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by Sepholio He was better as the BEARCAT. Yeah, I said it. So what? Wanna fight about it?

Originally Posted by Verbose Minch Nobody would dare dispute the power of BEARCAT Keith Lee

Originally Posted by DaveWadding I don't know how someone who describes themself as verbose cannot identify the indubitably insatiable verbosity of the indescribable, incomparable Limitless Keith Lee.

Originally Posted by Vastardikai This feels like what me on the best (?) Booking posts. Also, last Keith Lee match I saw was the one where Zicky Dice bounced off of him and put himself into the Spirit Bomb.

Originally Posted by Verbose Minch I've identified it because I'm also an autistic grandpa (and I stink)

I can't believe I'm about to defend Keith Lee. I already made my feelings known since he got plucked from Ring of Honor to a NXT developmental deal, but for the uninitiated: I could not tell the difference between him and Shane Taylor. They were both just two big black "former NFL" fuckers that were respectively shaped like a pear (Taylor) and an upside down pear (Lee). They had nothing of note: no real gimmick besides being big, no visible charisma, and aside from the tried and tested "agile for a big man" shit done to death since Bam Bam Bigelow, nothing of note. I didn't get why WWE bothered to sign one and not the other. To me, it should have been both or neither.

Then, Keith Lee started getting over in NXT. I even said then that I personally didn't get it, but I could see by reaction that the fans obviously wanted to see him. His entrance was over. His matches were over. Him talking was over. Fans ate all of it up.

So, WWE did what WWE does; and fucked all of it up. Changed his name. Changed his music. Changed his ring gear. Tried to change how he talked. Essentially, everything that was already over: blow it up and start again. For no real fucking reason.

So, then AEW. He comes in with all that behind him in terms of smark knowledge. Fans basically get the NXT Keith Lee that was over... just for him to disappear in short order. Then randomly tagging with Swerve. Then beaten to hell by two guys who end up released, so, guys that essentially don't exist. Both he and Shane Taylor now work for TK, and, unless there is something currently going on from Rampage or the unwatched ROH online shit, still haven't addressed their history in spite of having a random-ass six man tag on opposite sides for one of the handful of AEW PPVs that happended fairly recently. Don't even remember which one.

All of this that I mentioned is all stuff that isn't Keith's fault. There's prob'ly other things that is. Whatever. Again, never really been my cup of tea. He was always the poor man's Mark Henry to me. But to go from everyone loving you to nobody knowing you exist outisde of the recent internet drama where people confused him with the food critic Keith Lee. How the fuck does a company do that? Repeatedly? It isn't a one off, because the same thing happened with The Hardy Boyz. And Tony Neese. And Undisputed Era... etc., etc. Feels like only a matter of time before they find a way to fuck up Edge Adam Copeland and Christian.

Even people the AEW community consider "big stars" of the international variety never show up in big star capacity. Guys like Okada or Osprey look like they just rolled in off the flight they crossed the pond in in travelling sweats so it takes less time to get through security instead of anything identifiable. The few times they appear, any New Japan guy looks more like a guardrail hopping fan than RoH Kevin Steen did.