Guest Report post Posted June 10, 2002 Unfortunately, the Soviet Union is gone, the Cold War is over, and there's no real need for evil Russian wrestlers from the U.S.S.R.'s Olympic team. But I think we could benefit from an Evil Russian right about now. Evil Russians are one of the most enduring, recognizable, and awesome stereotypes of wrestling! We need Evil Russians! True, some Evil Russians have been on the crappy side. But Nikita Koloff, an excellent wrestler (his tights even said CCCP instead of USSR, talk about attention to detail, baby) compensated for Boris Zhukov and Nikolai Volkoff. It won't be hard. Find a big talented wrestler with a knack for the amateur stuff, shave his head, give him a big furry goatee and a red singlet-sans-legs, and you've got an Evil Russian. For entrance theme, give him Tchaikowsky's Marche Slave or the Soviet National Anthem. When cutting promos, it doesn't matter what he says! Russian just sounds menacing, even if you're saying "pass the marmalade." Just make lots of trilled R's, zh's, ishk's, and orf's, and you sound vaguely Slavic. So this is my campaign for an Evil Russian for the 21st century. "Ivan Stalinov" sounds particularly good. I might like a Czech wrestler, but that's a harder to define character. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheDames7 Report post Posted June 10, 2002 With Brock looking like Ivan Drago, he could have pulled it off, but they done fucked it up now. Dames Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest RicFlairGlory Report post Posted June 10, 2002 With Brock looking like Ivan Drago, he could have pulled it off, but they done fucked it up now. Dames I'm sure the WWF has a lot more bad stereotypes If that Prototype guy ever turns out half-decent, its worth a shot Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted June 10, 2002 I think evil ethnic stereotypes in general would be a great direction for WWF to go against the political correctness of our society. All Japanese are evil right now, let's extend to Evil Russians, Persians, Cubans, Finns, Greeks, Dutch, and more. Seriously, I've got ideas for all of them. Russians: the new Bolsheviks, or the Czars of the Mat Persians: does the Iron Sheik have any relatives? Cubans: Fidel Sierra from the waning days of Saturday Night Finns: Two words - Ludvig Borga Greeks: a Diva with a mustache Dutch: some piece of Eurotrash that does drugs and uses Rad Radford's old theme, found at http://www.100megsfree3.com/wrestlestar/radradford.rm it's actually pretty cool! Any other ethnic stereotypes we can rejuvenate the WWEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee with? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest raptor Report post Posted June 10, 2002 Has anybody ever heard of the old-school japanese heel Kenji Shabuya? His entire gimmick was based on our economy... people hated him because he would take the money he earned wrestling and spend it in japan... thus LOWERING OUR GDP. BWAHHHAAAAHAAAHAHAHHA!!! Tajiri should do THAT. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted June 10, 2002 Was Akeem a stereotype? Other stereotypes: Any wrestler of Pacific Islander descent. they can't talk, they are big, and they have hard heads. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest converge241 Report post Posted June 10, 2002 If golberg had arrived in the 80s he would have been a Koloff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted June 10, 2002 How bout a French wrestler who always surrenders and runs away whenever his opponent comes towards him? Also, when Regal started in the wwf as the English ambassador, he was pretty stereotyped. btw raptor, love the Tajiri idea! Trading US dollars for Japanese yen = RATINGS!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DragonflyKid Report post Posted June 10, 2002 Of all the stereotypes they need to bring back the anti-American mid-easterer(Tiger Ali Singh), of course all the overly-sensitive crowd will critisize it but Tiger will get major heat although to a lesser extent that he would have months ago. Sure he is a bad wrestler but he is good on the mic and will make for some decent television and contrversy The middle-eastren stereotype would be ideal right now, they shouldn't present him a a member or sympathizer of Al-Quadi because they might be going a bit too far but he should still hate America, basically having the same gimmick he had last time he was in the WWF. I also thought the Talibanas on Galavision's lucha libre was funny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest RevEvil Report post Posted June 16, 2002 and of course the snobby left-leaning intellectual. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted June 16, 2002 Greeks: a Diva with a mustache Well your forgetting Mantaur for the WWF and Spiro something that ECW Greek wrestler that lasted about 2 weeks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted June 16, 2002 I think Prototype would make a good Russian. He can be Vladimar Cenavic, with his partner Ivan Stalinov. Then Stalinov can tag-team with Kurt Angle and Michael Cole can call it the "Strategic Alliance" ad nauseum. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ash Ketchum Report post Posted June 16, 2002 Great idea, Czech! That sounds sweet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ash Ketchum Report post Posted June 16, 2002 Great idea, Czech! That sounds sweet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest PlatypusFool Report post Posted June 16, 2002 "Has anybody ever heard of the old-school japanese heel Kenji Shabuya? His entire gimmick was based on our economy... people hated him because he would take the money he earned wrestling and spend it in japan... thus LOWERING OUR GDP. BWAHHHAAAAHAAAHAHAHHA!!! Tajiri should do THAT." Speaking as an economics student, that is absolutely CLASSIC, whether it is real or not. In fact, Toryumon, or one of the other gimmick based Japanese indies, should bring a character like this in right now. An American wrestler who sends all his earnings back home in order to cripple the Jap's economy even further. He'd be so over! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
