Curtis Axel wrestled in WWE with another name, Michael McGillicutty. The son of Mr Perfect wasn’t really presented as a top star during his time with the company.
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Former WWE superstar Charlie Haas recently said that Curtis Axel should have been the next Randy Orton and slammed the WWE for handling his time with the company so badly. Axel whose real name is Joe Henning is the son of late wrestler and Hall of Famer Mr Perfect Curt Henning. Curtis wrestled in WWE with another name, Michael McGillicutty. The son of Mr Perfect wasn’t really presented as a top star during his time with the company.
Former tag team champion Charlie Haas was speaking with Liam A Stewart when he said that WWE made a mistake with how they handled Curtis Axel. He said, “Joe Hennig, Curt Hennig’s son, third-generation wrestler, how in the hell can you go out and be a McGillicutty? If you don’t feel comfortable in your own skin, how can you go out and get that guy over? Let him be Joe Hennig. Let him be a third-generation superstar, which he should be, up there with Randy Orton.” Henning was released from WWE in April 2020 in a round of cuts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned to the company for a backstage producer tryout this past April.
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WWE superstar Randy Orton is known to be a hothead and one of the most unpredictable people in the WWE. So it came as a surprise when he said that he has started to like his tag team partner Matt Riddle. The Viper was a guest on The Pat McAfee Show and revealed how it feels to be a veteran of the business. The Raw Tag Team Champion admitted that he didn’t originally like his current tag partner, Riddle, but has warmed to him.
He said, “Riddle’s a good cat. Did not like him at first. And I think it was just one of those things where I was being a judgemental prick. You know the locker room, you’ve got a new guy coming in, and even though there’s no threatening to your position whatsoever, still, you’ve got this new guy coming in and you’re out there in the ring together trusting each other with your body, with your health.
“You’ve gotta shake my hand, look me in the eye, I need to know you and have some sort of relationship with you in the back before we go out there and I’m gonna go, ‘Here yeah, pick me up and don’t drop me on my head’. I think it just took him a while to kinda open up into being okay with developing that relationship, but once he did, and then I kinda… ‘Okay, I get what kind of guy he is’.
