Since, in this young week, I’ve already written about the push of Kofi Kingston and Sheamus (and again after Raw), I’ve decided to christen this “young WWE wrestler week.†Since we’ve hit the top young heel and face each on Raw, let’s take a look at the guys everyone expected to be the top young heel and face on Raw around now, Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase.
Ever since their feud with Degeneration-X ended, the push of Rhodes and Dibiase has almost completely stalled out. I recently wrote that Legacy are future superstars and nothing in their recent de-push has dissuaded me of that notion, but it will apparently take longer than we all thought. The warning signs were there, though I was told I was crazy for noting it, when Legacy were held off Raw after their Hell in a Cell with D-X, there was clearly a problem. Usually, in these situations, the WWE will strike while the iron’s hot, keeping the newly elevated duo over with either a big win or a new angle. Instead, they were off television and barely mentioned.
Since this time, Dibiase and Rhodes have been relegated to a with MVP and Mark Henry. Worse, against these two they’ve done nothing but lose and act as angle advancement for Randy Orton. That’s exactly where they were prior to their big, elevating Degeneration-X feud and only makes sense if D-X thought they weren’t ready. I surely hope this isn’t political, as both of the guys pushed, Kingston and Sheamus, have strong ties to Triple H (read each of their articles for more). If that is the case, then it doesn’t jive with what numerous legends and current stars have said about Dibiase in particular, who John noted is the best young guy he’s ever seen for his age and comparable to Randy Orton already.
This is the time the push for Legacy should have begun. Ted Dibiase has his Marine 2 movie coming out for the holidays and the WWE has just begun airing trailers for it. This means that if they consider him ready, he should be being pushed now to support his and the WWE’s own product. That he hasn’t suggests he’s reverted. Since the Orton partnership was to offer credibility, and the D-X feud was to offer elevation, then those top guys didn’t properly do their job assuming the original assessment of his talent (Vince McMahon and John Cena) was correct. All that is known is that somewhere in here, someone made a rather large mistake, for which the careers of two budding talents are suffering.
