Criticism backstage in WWE over pushes

Some of the people in the back for WWE are being critical of the current pushes and time being spent to develop the characters of Charlie Haas and Santino Marella.  While both are talented and entertaining to watch, neither of them create ratings or have potential to be big money makers.  Hornswaggle received the same kind of criticism last year due to his angle with Vince McMahon.

source: ewrestlingnews.com

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1. Comment #1

   Maybe just give Haas and Marella the limelight for a lil bit longer and see where it goes.

   Posted by I dunno know... on Thursday, October 09, 2008

2. Comment #2

   LOL. They are entertaining...I think Finlay deserves a push...

   Posted by KOD on Thursday, October 09, 2008

3. Comment #3

   You want to know who's getting over-pushed? The Diva's. How the hell does a 90pound anorexic blonde beat a Beth Phoenix or Natalie Neidhart?

   Posted by Smark on Thursday, October 09, 2008

4. Comment #4

   ^second Bayou's comment.
   
   Honest to god, they could swap Haas's push for Batista's and I wouldn't be at all angry.

   Posted by The Glide on Thursday, October 09, 2008

5. Comment #5

   This is crap. Their push is refreshing from seeing the same guys over and over again. I just wish they'd actually give Santino a moveset. It's pretty dumb that he's going to win every match by roll up or some other stupid crap. They should have Haas go after Santino for the belt.Maybe do the Goldberg persona for the title match.

   Posted by Bayou on Thursday, October 09, 2008

6. Comment #6

   wtf are they on about... have they seen santino play the badass russian? they're can produce big stuff for wwe, end of story.

   Posted by on Thursday, October 09, 2008

7. Comment #7

   Better than failed push number 473 for Mark Henry or Kane...I think their best bets at guys who could actually main event in the future with the right push were Mr. Kennedy and Carlito but its a bit late for either. Shelton isn't bad either but they always seemed to ignore him in favor of guys like MVP who aren't as good as him.

   Posted by King Atlus on Thursday, October 09, 2008

8. Comment #8

   Well, Kane never gets pushed into the main event scene, he basically just gets quite some TV time for a jobber, and why shouldn't he? How many of the legends do you know backstage that prefer to put over some younger guys rather than claim they should get another title? And I wouldn't say MVP is less talented than Shelton, MVP is a great technical wrestler AND can talk on the microphone. Somehow, I think both Santino and Marella will never make too much of an impact, Haas, they tried that before, and Marella, is just too old, and seems to think so himself, so he doesn't mind being outside of the spotlight. And since when is Santino a bad ass Russian?

   Posted by El Valo on Thursday, October 09, 2008

9. Comment #9

   shelton benjamin is lazy, that's why he doesn't get a push.

   Posted by on Thursday, October 09, 2008

10. Comment #10

    Shelton didn't use to be lazy till they spent 2 years doing jack **** with him after his breakout Money in the Bank performance.

    Posted by King Atlus on Thursday, October 09, 2008

11. Comment #11

    I mean "used." Also, Kane has plenty of main event pushes, just none recently because they never draw. He was in Mark Henry's position about 4 or 5 years ago where he kept being in snoozefest title matches.

    Posted by King Atlus on Thursday, October 09, 2008

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