Unholy Meatpuppet
I never judged Zach on his personality, even though he was an a*****e to a friend of mine. He gets over on sympathy. He has one leg, whoopee.
Ric Flair broke his back in a plane crash and went on to win sixteen world titles. Ric didn't milk that for sympathy. If it wasn't for the fact that Zach had the novelty of one leg, he would have gotten no where in wrestling. He was a bad Mikey Whipwreck with one leg. He never gets an offensive manouver other than his bad one legged moonsault, which isn't as much of a wrestling move as it is a party trick.
I commend Zach for still going into wrestling after losing a leg. But he could have at least tried to become a wrestler, not a gimmick.
And, yes, I AM judging Zach as a wrestler, because he is a shitty one.
Flair actually hardly left his house until the brace came off. And on camera when he came back, he was given a stack of get well soon cards sent to him by the fans. He took two of them and pocketed them (including the one from Racquel Welch (sp?)) and tossed the rest on the ground. He didn't want to be the sympathetic face, he wanted to be a heel. After that stunt, practically everyone wished he had died in the plane crash.
EDIT: He had already won his first World Title by then, if I remember correctly. THe problem is that it was lackluster because some of the promoters purposely fully made their regions bottom out to sabotage his reign. He was deemed too small. I wonder what they'd think of AJ Styles....