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Why These 7 WWE Wrestlers REFUSED Certain Storylines! - Kurt Angle As Matt Riddle's Manager! CM Punk Vs. HHH At Mania! Stone Cold Steve Austin & Brock Lesnar! Edge Ending The Undertaker's Streak?!

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🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Simon Miller is back to discuss why these 7 WWE Superstars refused certain storylines!


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0:00.0

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Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. There is a rule that you should never say no to any idea if you are under

0:34.4

W. W. W. W. Because if you do, maybe you're not going to get another

0:38.5

opportunity. Now there is both evidence to support and refute this, but given that it's out there in the ether, it's always worth

0:44.6

mentioning. Sometimes though an idea is just so stupid or a logical a performer is like, man, I'm not going near it, and sometimes

0:50.8

they feel like it affects their ego, they're also like no I'm not

0:54.4

going anywhere near it and this happened recently when a Hall of Fame that was

0:58.0

presented with a brand new narrative and turned it down and that got my brain

1:02.2

thinking because I remembered a grand total of

1:04.4

seven wrestlers who had also done this and you probably want to know why. Well

1:09.2

here's why. We will start with a person in question and it is of course Kurt Engel.

1:20.0

doing an interview recently he said he had been offered the opportunity to manage

1:24.0

Matt Riddle as he moved from NXT to Smackdown but he had gone to management and said,

1:28.4

while I do appreciate it, you've made me feel good inside, I have to turn you down.

1:33.3

And the biggest reason for this is surely because it makes absolutely no sense.

1:36.9

And don't get me wrong I love Kurt Engel and when you do go back to his career now

1:40.6

not only was he one of the most naturally gifted in-ring performers ever, but he also got all the behind-the-scene stuff or the character stuff as well.

1:48.0

I mean he turned up one day, wearing a tiny cowboy hat and playing the ukulele he did not take himself seriously even though he was super

1:55.4

serious in the squared circle it was damn perfect but I think even he knew that

1:59.7

managing riddle would have been a waste of time because Matt Riddle doesn't need a manager.

2:04.2

He is one of the few people on the W roster right now that just has that weird magic

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