I was never a huge fan of Rusev to begin with, so that was never really a "fear" with me. With that said, though, he was called up while WWE was still in that "immediate impact or bust" frame of mind. He was supposed to be the new big bad of the roster just on how he looks.
His whole "generic heel foreigner" thing was super flat. Then, he started basically being buried by his valet by osmosis, since people wanted to fap to her and still not give a shit about him... expidited by that whole "love triangle" nonsense. At least this would have given *some* character. Hell, if handled right, may have even ended up in a possible face turn for the guy.
Better on TV with *something* than who-gives-a-fucksville like this whole League of Nations blandness.
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