10 Wrestlers Way Too Desperate For Your Approval 7

7. Big E.

Powerlifter. Check. Thickly muscled. Check. Natural athlete. Check. Innate charisma. Check. If all of these things are true about Big E, then why since he dropped the Intercontinental Championship did he randomly begin speaking like a Baptist minister, randomly take up the cause of defending the United States of America, and then contemplate siding with his black friends Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston and R. Truth. Sometimes it isn’t the wrestler that’s desperately pandering for support, it’s creative that’s ultimately desperate on behalf of the wrestler.
                                                     

Ever since being the NXT Champion and getting over like King Kong Bundy once did because he wanted to prove his in-ring dominance by getting a five-count pinfall, Big E.’s character has had very little humanity. He’s not a person as much as he is a concept, which when you haphazardly attach some sort of humanistic charisma to this “thing”-as-man, it falls short and makes the talent look desperate. Big E.’s failure to look comfortable on TV isn’t as much Big E.’s fault as it is the fault of a system that has yet to locate the oddly charismatic person inside of the hulking behemoth.