Cesaro, Samoa Joe, Adam Rose and More from the Human Mailbag

Cesaro is on a tear in the tag team division again. Remember his 10 running uppercuts against The Ascension? Brilliant. But let's not jump to conclusions about his potential as a singles star just yet.

Question of the Week: Cesaro's Breakout Potential?

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@ThisIsNasty do you think that cesaro should get a big push to a main event spot?

— Raheem Mansaray (@johnnymansaray) May 13, 2015"

Absolutely not. WWE tried its hand at pushing Cesaro as a big deal, and he just wasn't about that life. Cesaro's biggest career peaks came as part of a tag team, whether it was the Real Americans or Kidd and Cesaro. 

Wrestlers work the undercard, but sports entertainers main event pay-per-views. Cesaro is a wrestler who simply couldn't cross over.

He didn't blossom alongside Paul Heyman because only the biggest of stars become elevated through Heyman's services. Heyman is such a talented performer that lesser WWE Superstars he managed—from Matt Morgan to Heidenreich and others—crumbled in his shadow.

Fans are still salty about Vince McMahon's comments about Cesaro's not being able to connect, but McMahon knows better than anybody. Cesaro has never cut a great promo and always needed a manager or other moving parts around him to make people care, because he cannot deliver quality entertainment on his own. European uppercuts will only get you so far.

Cesaro has found his niche as a tag team performer. Fans make the mistake of extrapolating his effectiveness in the tag team division, thinking he is being underutilized, but this is where his potential lies.

Cesaro, who turns 35 this year, is a great tag team wrestler. That will be his legacy at WWE. That was his legacy on the independent circuit alongside Chris Hero as part of the Kings of Wrestling.

Talk of Cesaro being underrated and underutilized is just Internet comfort food. 

The Humanizing of Adam Rose?

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@ThisIsNasty Did the @WWE drop the ball by not using @WWEAdamRose on RAW at all after humanizing him so much on @E60?

— Jordan Smith (@JSmith_FOX6) May 12, 2015"

I'm hearing that a lot. People keep saying ESPN put Adam Rose over more than WWE could, but WWE is about larger-than-life personalities. There's certainly a time for humanizing characters, but how would WWE be able to make money off Rose's poignant real-life story?

Creative meetings, and ultimately storylines, involving Rose's at-risk child could get uncomfortable, to say the least.

Perhaps a switch back to Leo Kruger could help his cause, given the exposure that character received on the E:60 documentary. Unfortunately, Rose's options are limited due to his age and the amount of time he spent on the main roster as a throwaway character.

It will certainly be interesting to see how he is used post-E:60, and whether or not things will simply stay the same.  

Pay-per-views or Special Events?

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@ThisIsNasty How long are they going to call them Pay Per Views for? Not really PPVs anymore are they? More like Network Specials.

— V (@MrVDawg) May 12, 2015"

They pretty much are pay-per-views, aren't they? To view these events on the WWE Network, fans have to pay a monthly fee. Besides, the term pay-per-view has been grandfathered into pro wrestling lexicon, and there's always a chance WWE goes back to this format in the future, especially after seeing Mayweather-Pacquiao draw 4.4 million buys.

I have no problem with WWE's referring to these events as pay-per-views. That's what they always have been, and that's what they still are.

Perhaps the term "network exclusive" could suffice as a replacement, but after decades of promoting pay-per-views, WWE is in too deep to update the term at this point. 

Rowan and Harper Reunited?  

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Erick Rowan & Luke Harper back together. Thoughts about this? @ThisIsNasty

— El Cerebro (@tuale_CA) May 12, 2015"

Several months ago, I claimed Erick Rowan would be a bigger star than Luke Harper as a singles competitor. I wasn't wrong, but I wasn't right, either. I consider their reconciliation a sign that this was a wash.

Neither really worked out as a singles star. With Rowan, WWE could have made him an entertaining comedy character, and I truly think he could have gotten over with a younger audience as a real-life Shrek.

Harper wasn't really given a character outside of the fact that he's mentally unstable, but there are too many individuals on the roster with that gimmick already.

Now that they're together in a suddenly booming tag team division, they should get back on track to relevance. With Bray Wyatt currently in a lukewarm feud against Ryback, a Wyatt Family reunion shouldn't be ruled out, either.

Samoa Joe in NXT?

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Seriously @ThisIsNasty why in the Sam Hill does Samoa Joe have to come in through @WWENXT? dude is certified!

— Howard Writes (@howardwrites) May 9, 2015"

Should he sign with WWE, as was rumored by Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, (h/t WrestlingInc), I only see Samoa Joe working out in NXT. 

The former TNA star will be most over in that space, surrounded by hardcore fans who know exactly who he is. I have my doubts about Joe working out on the main roster, especially given the sudden epidemic of injuries among talent with similar indy backgrounds and age.

Fans should embrace the idea of Samoa Joe in NXT. NXT is more of a hybrid promotion than an actual developmental territory. NXT is where he'd have the best matches and be most popular.

Alfred Konuwa is a featured columnist and on-air host for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter @ThisIsNasty, and subscribe to his weekly wrestling podcast.