It's literally the same way they brought in Eddie Kingston and Ricky Starks too lol only difference is they had actual title matches for theirs where Mance's was non-title. People just pick new things to complain about that don't make sense, they played a video package showing a recent win he had on a big name indy show and had a video package promo air before the match, then had him lose a great debut match. If you knew him, you were hype, and if you didnt know him then you had a good idea of what he was about before the match even started. What else do people want lmao (I don't actually care bc I know these people don't either and will keep making their loser posts anyway so they shouldn't be catered to). This convo only even happening cause of that neckbeard tiktok Booty mentioned, which I'm sure was 100% successful to that guy since he got a ridiculous amount of exposure even if it's a lot of people clowning him.
I'd even bet the reason Mance went over Bully at the Flair show (which felt random at the time) was due to this already being planned lol since that was their way to sell him, assuming most people watching knew who Bully Ray was at least if not Mance