When Rusev first arrived on the WWE main roster he was pushed as a force to be reckoned with, but as time went on he seemed to get lost in the shuffle. Rusev was able to reinvigorate his career when he introduced the Rusev Day gimmick with a big assist from Aiden English.
At one point it was clear that the fans were fully behind Rusev Day, but it doesn’t seem that WWE officials were quite as enthusiastic about the act. Road Dogg recently discussed Rusev Day’s run on his Oh You Didn’t Know? podcast and he noted that he would pitch ideas for the group, but they were always shot down.
“So it’s yes, yes, we saw it. Yes, we saw Rusev Day getting over. I honestly don’t know what happened to Rusev Day. One day, we were pushing it and the next day we weren’t. Honestly, when I say we weren’t pushing it, it didn’t go away. It didn’t just disappear, we just weren’t doing anything with it anymore.
“Every time I would pitch something it would get shot down. So I don’t know what happened. I’m not going to say anything, because last time I said something, I got a phone call and I’m not gonna have that happen again. But honestly, I don’t know what went down that all of a sudden we stopped running with it because it was going really well.”
While talking about why Vince McMahon seemingly gave up on the group Road Dogg indicated that the former WWE CEO might not have been a very big fan of Aiden English.
“I think it was getting over and I don’t know if Vince was a fan of Aiden English. I feel comfortable saying that. I don’t know if he was a fan of Aiden English. He’s a great singer. He’s a great wrestler.
“He’s, I mean, he’s not a beautiful man, but neither am I. Well, look, he doesn’t, his body looks like everybody else’s, just he’s not tanned and he looks like me or whatever. You know what I mean? Like he just looks different. And I don’t mean nothing bad by that. You can’t say nothing nowadays without having to qualify it with everything. God, the dude is not good-looking, what do you want me to say?”
