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Post by dlg3000 on Jun 27, 2008 18:52:37 GMT -5
I actually liked this gimmick. But what was the story behind its demise? Was it just dropped because it didn't go over well? youtube.com/watch?v=kfqP18ik0oE |
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jun 27, 2008 19:00:26 GMT -5
I actually liked this gimmick. But what was the story behind its demise? Was it just dropped because it didn't go over well? youtube.com/watch?v=kfqP18ik0oEThe higher-up at TNN thought he was like a Child Predator in his first promo. |
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Post by Evil Doink on Jun 27, 2008 19:05:06 GMT -5
"I hate gimmicks like this. They stuck me in this. I will do a shoot against myself and the 'powers to be'" that's called the "I'm doing this against my will..." meeeeeeehhhhhhhhhh, pass. If I recall correctly, he tried something like this while he still was goldust, just not in the same fashion.
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Post by Lancers on Jun 27, 2008 19:09:09 GMT -5
I actually liked this gimmick. But what was the story behind its demise? Was it just dropped because it didn't go over well? youtube.com/watch?v=kfqP18ik0oEThe higher-up at TNN thought he was like a Child Predator in his first promo. In their defense, he WAS looking into a little boy's window at night. Normally, most thirty-something guys in the wrestling industry don't do that. Unless their name is Rob 'ill pretend u said 18 lol' Feinstein. |
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jun 27, 2008 19:10:08 GMT -5
The higher-up at TNN thought he was like a Child Predator in his first promo. In their defense, he WAS looking into a little boy's window at night. Normally, most thirty-something wrestlers don't do that. True. Either way, the gimmick sucked. |
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Post by Krimzon on Jun 27, 2008 19:10:20 GMT -5
Who could forget him?
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Post by dlg3000 on Jun 27, 2008 19:10:55 GMT -5
Thanks. It does seem like he shut down his own gimmick. I would have never thought pedophilia looking at this gimmick. I would have thought of "Hellraiser"'s Pinhead instead, but without the pins.
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Post by Lancers on Jun 27, 2008 19:12:46 GMT -5
Man, I couldn't stand WCW at this time. All of those fake shoot promos. Most fans had no f'ing clue what was going on. Even the cardboard cutout fans in the audience seemed disinterested by 2000.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jun 28, 2008 0:59:23 GMT -5
I loved that entrance... just the way he floated into the ring like that.
But it was a time when the more 'gimmicky' gimmicks were being dropped or turned into jokes anyways, so I loved it more when Dustin dropped it and spoke for himself (I don't know if that was really the plan all along, but I loved it anyways).
Another instance of WCW dropping the ball. After that I was hoping for a bigger Dustin push, fighting against the NWO along side Sting and the Horsemen.
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Post by Rocky Van Heineken on Jun 28, 2008 3:59:29 GMT -5
Yeah, it was a pretty good Brad Pitt movie.
Oh, you mean the WCW gimmick. Yeah, it sucked. But so did 98% of what WCW did.
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Post by waffleofpower on Jun 28, 2008 9:22:34 GMT -5
The "fear me, you will" is a little too Yodaesque. Apparently, if Raven had stayed in WCW, he and the Kiss Demon would have ended up being his lackys. But Dustin Rhodes HAS to have a gimmick. He's very boring as himself.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Jun 28, 2008 9:30:55 GMT -5
I loved that entrance... just the way he floated into the ring like that. But it was a time when the more 'gimmicky' gimmicks were being dropped or turned into jokes anyways, so I loved it more when Dustin dropped it and spoke for himself (I don't know if that was really the plan all along, but I loved it anyways). Another instance of WCW dropping the ball. After that I was hoping for a bigger Dustin push, fighting against the NWO along side Sting and the Horsemen. I don't think the Horsemen or the NWO was around still. This was like early 2000 when Russo was doing the powers that be gimmick with the Harris twins. |
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