I hate that Keith lee still gets killed for this lol
I do think it was an overreaction which is usually the case, but from a level headed POV I get it. The “WALTER” chants were such a big part of his presentation, and they had established him as that from day one so the change was kinda abrupt. Also mixed with the Nazi last name thing, it was easy to jump out the window and react at the time
It would be like WWE bringing in Samoa Joe, establishing him as that in NXT along with the “Joe, Joe, Joe” chants… and then randomly renaming him Jake Tua or some shyt 2 years into his run
Could he get over as Jake Tua? Probably. Cream rises…. But it would still kinda be like… why? What’s the reason? Why are we fukking with something that we literally helped work? In this case tho, it obviously worked out