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WWE certainly doesn’t act as though it’s an actual sport. It is most certainly a political minefield that adds so many other factors one has to deal with to achieve success. Being good at what you do doesn’t always get you to the top.
Unlike sports where there are on-field results that will make one become a star and deemed the best, unless you are puckering up to the higher powers in the business and being the best corporate “yes man” you can be, it can be extremely difficult to find your footing within the business.
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Here we look at 5 WWE superstars who are undoubtedly corporate “yes men” within the company.
#5 The Miz
Miz is like a corporate “yes man” created by Vince McMahon to spin everything towards complimenting the WWE in interviews.
The Miz even goes out of his way to adhere to the WWE outlook of using terms like “sports entertainment” and “WWE Universe” and almost never uses words such as wrestling and wrestling fans. All of that most certainly keeps the higher ups in the world of WWE happy.
While he is talented in his own right, there is no doubt that years of kissing up to top men helped Miz get his WWE Championship win and the undeserved opportunity of main eventing WrestleMania XXVII against John Cena.
#4 John Cena
Yes ok, Cena has been loyal employee and truth being told, that isn’t the same as kissing up, but when you do it for so long without doing anything to change for the better, it becomes one and the same.
Cena has dominated the WWE main event scene for a decade now and while no one else is on his level as a star (even if you hate him, he does sell tickets), his undying loyalty to Vince McMahon plays a huge role in that.
The sweet art of kissing up to Vince may have been the reason that people like Daniel Bryan and CM Punk didn’t get the same breaks he did. Heck, even CM Punk said it in his pipe bomb promo on Raw,
“The only thing your better at than me is kissing Vince McMahons ass.” – CM Punk
It seems as though whatever Cena is told to do, he simply goes out there and does it.
#3 Road Dogg
Yep, even one of the coolest characters during the attitude era is a massive corporate “yes man.” The Dogg had spent a few years in TNA and after that WWE hired him back for an office role and he was given one of the more powerful positions in the company.
Road Dogg was even the main person in charge of SmackDown during the months Vince McMahon and Triple H spent working on the Tough Enough live show.
So how is he a corporate “yes man?”
Well, you can often find him on Twitter engaging in arguments and talking down to fans that voice displeasure with a WWE show and I’m sure the WWE has a hand in telling him to do this.
Let’s not forget that he talked down Triple H during his years out of WWE, so one could only imagine that Road Dogg has been kissing up quite a lot to get to where he is today.
#2 HHH
So yes I guess this one was pretty obvious. Of course HHH makes the list. This superstar has a history of using backstage politics to his advantage and forming relationships with the right people through the art of puckering up to the men at the top.
Even without his current status of power, there’s no doubt “Trips” would go down among the top corporate “yes men” in the business. He now holds a large position of power within the company and is being groomed to take over from Vince.
Even without sucking up all those years he probably still would have been a serious main eventer in the business but maybe wouldn’t have the kind of power he has today.
#1 JBL
As far as WWE superstars go, JBL is wrestling’s biggest “yes man.” After all, he has been doing it for over two decades and as some would have you believe, it is the reason he is still successful in WWE.
JBL has been employed with WWE through all the flops in the ring and stories of him bullying other wrestlers in the locker room, and its all down to him being a corporate “yes man.”
An interesting point to note is that Vince even pitched the JBL character as an extended version of himself, but instead using the stock market as his way of getting rich rather than owning the company.
Bradshaw even found a way to become the top colour commentator in WWE despite having very little skill in that department. I guess all the years of playing to Vince’s tune has really paid off.
