Dear WWE - Let's save Bobby Lashley

[Dark One]

Originally Posted by Noid He himself has looked fine. They have seemed to have been careful with not having him overshadow anyone so there isn't backlash. He teamed with Braun a lot as a way of making him feel like "Braun's friend," so the crowd doesn't feel like he is taking Braun's spot, you know? Does his delayed vertical suplex and the crowd is polite and pops for it. It's that tightrope between him just being a dude very soon after returning though, but they seem to want him cool. But the fucking sit-down interview with Renee Young. Holy shit, it was comically bad. I'm fairly certain it was done to get people to "relate" to him, and make him seem "nice" and like a "role-model." It's so fucking creepy, man. I got this vibe of the JR/Mankind interviews, thinking "Man, Lashley is actually demented," except I am fairly certain that is not actually the point. He talks about how his sisters used to abuse and mercilessly tease him, but he fake laughs and says that he loves them, as Renee stares on, looking generally sad with life, or like she's trying to look sad so she doesn't laugh. They're edited so starkly. There's nothing natural or organic. It's like someone programmed a robot to try and understand complex human interactions, and it came out sounding a bit like a horror story. Apparently Vince "liked them" and thought they were effective.

Originally Posted by Noid This is a company where you have to turn heel so that people can head canon a personality for you, because as a heel you get to be a bit of an ass and feel a lot more connected as an individual. If Lashley is going to be a babyface, he needs to turn heel first, show himself as ruthless, not sell like a geek that slips on banana peels all the time, etc. Then people might begin to think "Hey, Lashley is cool" and start to cheer him.

We don't agree on a lot any more, but this is super accurate.

That said, at this point they should just start telling more and more batshit insane sister stories.