Epic Reine 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 A smart mark wrestler. What do you think? You can debut some new guy with a manager and have him win a couple matches and then he goes to the locker room and his manager insults him on his selling, psychlogy, offense etc. and have the manager berate him in every match yelling at him using smark terms. He can also insult other wrestlers like him having a backstage confrontation with someone like Flair and have him or the manager saying "Look at you, you can't even bump properly anymore and your selling is totally abyssmal!" It could be a great way to gain heat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
redbaron29 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 I think it's pretty gay Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Some Guy 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 That was what Dean Douglas was supposed to be and it didn't work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 That would be absolutely horrible. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bigm350 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 The majority of the WWE audience probably wouldn't understand or know the gimmick. Even if they did, it still would be a lousy gimmick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Boon 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 Yes, is shitty, this idea. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spaceman Spiff 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 Even if a gimmick like that ever made it on TV, they'd just have the guy lose all the time as a way to say "ha ha, 13 year-old internet losers!". The guy'd be Simon Dean w/ a worse w/l record. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fuzzy Dunlop 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 We had this discussion a couple years ago. It was like the exact same thread, and everyone was saying it should be Val Venis's new gimmick when he got traded to RAW. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benoit4hor 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 Why stop there he could go own to insult members of popular wrestling forums, such as this. He could cut promo's on the TSM posters. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbondrage99 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 Wow this is the greatest idea ever! Whatever wrestler is lucky enough to land this will be as big as Hogan, Austin or The Rock ever were! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheFranchise 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 I'd laugh if someone like Eugene totally changed their character and did this. Or, I wouldn't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Precious Roy 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 Something like this might work in ROH, but even that's a stretch, it's too overt the way it's outlined here, you've got way too much shit going on. Stuff like Foley disowning hardcore wrestling and Steve Corino's "King of Old School" gimmick work because they were simple, subtle jabs at wrestling purists. Throwing out a bunch of smart terms without logic just to be hip reaches Russo levels of retardo booking. Though I must say, the idea of a prelim guy who's cocky as shit and brags about how well he makes his opponents look has some comedic possibilities, just not with the breaking of kayfabe.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
claydude14 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 They should just have a new Superstar line and have the host's gimmick be he always cuts backstage promos promoting his hotline, and then one time we watch a Superstar call (Matt Hardy) and he hears that his girlfriend (Lita) has been cheating on him with feces (Edge). So then Hardy or Edge or Lita could beat his ass pointlessly to promote the hotline and start a feud. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ace309 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 This gets suggested every now and again. The general consensus is that it would confuse casual fans and mildly irritate smart marks. No up side. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Open the Muggy Gate 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 It's a gimmick that's been before and didn't work.... which probably means they will bring it back and name the character Keith Scott or something like that.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
justcoz 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 I always thought WWE had a chance to really poke fun at smarks by making their idiot savant, Eugene, have some smark tendencies. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Art Sandusky 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 Batista should work one little smart jab at someone each week on Raw. That's the most I'd want to see of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarvinisaLunatic 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2005 With all the pretty yellow flowers growing in Death Valley..they should turn the Undertaker into a wrestling Florist... ... That wouldn't nearly be as bad as the above idea. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SuperJerk 0 Report post Posted March 29, 2005 Yes, is shitty, this idea. Even Yoda agrees. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
