They really dropped the ball on Clay. They needed him to be a monster type, and run him in a program w/ Cena.

The territory system was so good to the Hogan Era, because you could bring in the monster types (Kamala, Bundy, One Man Gang) as established threats to go after him for a nice couple month run. Now there are generally 2 ways a noob goes, hot shotted to the top or jobbed out too quick.
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Thinking of cracked-out and/or tweaking whores getting their throats and asses brutalized for the next hit makes me hard. --Rear Admiral