Panthera, you mentioned this earlier and I had the idea too in the last thread, that there definitely is a huge undercurrent in WWE over the last while about preferential treatment for the golden boys and how hard it is to break through when you're not someone who WWE wants to see succeed at a World Title level.
It's probably just coincidental, with the writers just stuck trying to find new ways for people challenging Cena and Orton to come after them, but even going as far back as Daniel Bryan's NXT run/unceremonious exit, to the entire existence of the Nexus as a way to circumvent the politics of WWE, and now to Truth and Christian and Punk, there really is a huge movement afoot in kayfabe calling out the way WWE chooses to do business, whether or not WWE actually intended that or not.
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Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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