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After being released by the WWE in 2005 due to unprofessional conduct because of the whole
Edge and Lita drama...
Matt Hardy started making his own vignettes where he referred to himself
as “The Angelic Diablo” with the tagline "the scar will become a symbol" in reference
to the way that he had been treated by Lita and the WWE. These vignettes, along with the
public knowledge of Lita’s affair with Edge, gained Matt the full support from the fans
who chanted “We want Matt” at WWE events. The crowd support for Matt Hardy along with
a petition from the fans to get Hardy to re-sign with the WWE gave Vince McMahon no choice
but to give Matt Hardy a new WWE contract.
Damien Sandow’s Intellectual Saviour of the Masses gimmick landed him in many high
came in 2013, when he won the Money in the Bank briefcase. However, this all went downhill
after John Cena buried Sandow in a failed cash-in attempt. Sandow would then go on a
losing streak before he found great success reinventing himself as Damien Mizdow, a stunt
double for The Miz.
The Damien Mizdow character was so
over to the point that the crowd would boo The Miz and chant “We want Mizdow.” When
Sandow was eventually released in 2016, he was even trending worldwide on Twitter for
3+ hours just because of how popular he actually was with the fans.
Towards the latter stages of his WWE run, Rusev was being criminally underutilized,
But despite all of this, something good did come out of
this which was the global phenomenon that was Rusev Day.
Despite selling out t-shirts
and filling arenas each night with Rusev Day chants...
it still wasn’t enough to convince
The Chairman to push Rusev as Rusev revealed on The Ryback Show that Vince told him that
the fans were just f*ck*ng with him and that the Rusev Day chants didn’t mean that he
was over, it just meant that they were mocking him…
As a result of his dissatisfaction with his place in the WWE, Zack Ryder started his own
web series on YouTube called: Z! True Long Island Story. He made it his mission to get
himself noticed and that’s exactly what happened.
His web show started to skyrocket
in popularity and he gained a special connection with the fans as the WWE’s self-proclaimed
Internet Champion. His popularity meant that he was selling out t-shirts and filling arenas
with “We Want Ryder” chants despite not even being on TV…
This earned him more appearances
on TV and a rise in status which eventually led him to win his first ever singles title,
that being the United States Championship, at TLC 2011.
Daniel Bryan’s monumental success at WrestleMania 30 can be largely attributed to the global
revolution that he created known as the Yes Movement! Bryan over time gained the full
support of millions of fans who chanted his name. A great example was in the 2014 Royal
Rumble match which saw the audience chant for Bryan despite him not even being a participant
and boo the eventual winner Batista who was supposed to be a babyface.
The backlash was
so intense that it forced the WWE to change their plans and include Bryan in the main
event of WrestleMania 30 which he went on to win. A moment him and the fans will never forget!