[WATCH] Backstage footage shows damning moment for top WWE name who has now left the company

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Now, a piece of backstage footage has emerged from WWE Unreal, showing a creative meeting where Road Dogg was talking to Bruce Prichard, Triple H (on a video call), and the rest of the team. In that meeting, they were discussing R-Truth’s return and feud with John Cena, and Road Dogg got visibly angry at the lack of direction that they had with the story, calling it “horrible” and “the s**ts”. He essentially pleaded that they needed to do something with it, and his voice seems to have gone unheard, even by Triple H. You can watch the clip over here

Ex-WWE personality Jonathan Coachman believes Road Dogg was made to be a scapegoat

Although Road Dogg got a very bad name among fans online, many of whom blamed him for the creative direction that SmackDown suffered in 2025, ex-personality Jonathan Coachman has an entirely different point of view surrounding this issue.

In what he called an “emergency take”, Jonathan Coachman, the former commentator, ripped into WWE as a whole and was in full support of Road Dogg, who he said was supportive of names like Chelsea Green and R-Truth when other names like Michael P.S. Hayes weren’t. He had nothing but respect for Road Dogg, and said that the issue that the company has creatively is a larger one that starts from the top.

Coachman essentially said that with no good creative, even the best of talent can’t do anything. To put it simply, Coachman said that the creative issue that the sports entertainment giant has been plagued with is a systemic one, and that blaming Road Dogg for bad television wasn’t the way to go.

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