Since his WWE debut, Mr. Kennedy was touted as the company’s future. He had a great look, delivered excellent promos, and was a good worker. At one point, he was hailed as SmackDown’s fastest-rising star. Kennedy even won the Money in the Bank briefcase and was one step closer to becoming champion. However, he lost the briefcase to Edge and his world title push was eventually derailed.
Mr. Kennedy recently did an exclusive interview with WrestlingNews.co where he talked about winning the Money in the Bank briefcase and how his push got derailed.
“The only specifics I ever got were after I won the Money in the Bank briefcase, they told me, ‘Hey, we’re gonna have you hold on to that for a year. I came out, I believe the next night, and I announced that I was going to cash it in at WrestleMania the next year. That was the plan going forward, and then Undertaker got injured.
They called me in the office and said, ‘Hey, There’s been a change. We got to get this title off Taker’, so they laid out this scenario for me. This was on a Tuesday night after SmackDown because SmackDown was taped on Tuesday nights. Taker had torn his biceps. Next Tuesday, Taker is going to have a cage match. He’s barely going to get the win. Somebody is going to come out and beat him even more. He was barely going to survive that one. Then they were going to hit my music and I was going to cash in the briefcase and become world champion.”
Mr Kennedy
After dropping the briefcase to Edge, Mr. Kennedy’s star power fizzled out until he was eventually released from the company.
H/T to Wrestling News
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