Which Superstars have the most crossover appeal?

[2 Cold Scorkum]

I was in the video store the other day and saw some B-action movie starring Steve Austin. Then I thought about The Rock and how he stars in a fair amount of movies(though I would hardly consider him an A-lister). I was wondering what other wrestlers you guys thought had the potential to be crossover stars like that.

Cena is obvious I guess. He's definitely the most well known out of the current crop of WWE guys and has a bit of personality. Orton's pretty popular too, but I think he's too wooden to do anything outside of a wrestling ring. Jericho has his band, and I've seen him as a talking head on VH1 as well.

Wasn't Stacy Keibler slated to be the next "it" girl a few years back? Or did I just imagine that. She definitely had potential, she was freaking gorgeous.

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Alex Riley as a Stifler cousin in some generic American Pie sequel type high school movie thing would work.

[Hawk Hart]

Tyler Perry's Cook Out: Starring Drew McIntyre as the white guy who the black daughter brings home and no one approves of until he shows his loyalty to the daughter and he is accepted.

Highlight: A little kid gets BBQ sauce all over Drew's white shirt prompting him to get angry, give the kid a Future Shock, and declare the party over. This will of course be forgiven in the end.

[FUNK_US/BRODUS]

If Otunga picks it up in the ring, and shows up with his wife on the red carpet more often, there could be something there. His mic skills are great as it is, but he always looks lost in a match.

[bshadye413]

definitely The Miz. he's already had the most media attention of any champion since The Rock

[The Cool Pup]

Dec 7, 2010 19:37:35 GMT -5 bshadye413 said:

definitely The Miz. he's already had the most media attention of any champion since The Rock

Easily this. I truly see him as leading a wave of the new stars into the mainstream.

Miz has the capability to continue the WWE further towards the entertainment world, which they've been trying to do for oh so long.

[Jimmy]

Orton and Miz, I think.

[Pervy Stone Cold]

Chyna was really well known (she was even on Whose Line) even for people who don't watch pro-wrestling.

[wcw]

Cena of all the guys on the current roster is the biggest cross over star. While HHH, The Undertaker, The Miz, and Orton are really the only other guys with some sort of crossover appeal. Any other wrestler isn't really known much outside of wrestling.

[saintpat]

Miz FTW

[zeez]

As far as action stars, I think Orton would be pretty good. I also agree that Miz would do well. I'd also add CM Punk if it were a comedy. He'd be hilarious.

[Alex Shelley]

Dolph Ziggler. Just send him to some show that 16-25 year old girls watch and have him take off his shirt.

[Bub (BLM)]

I'd say Morrison if he could talk.

[flatsdomino]

CM Punk. He's the best all-around performer in the company, and has a modern look and persona which is different from the archetypes of wrestling's past, which is important because wrestling isn't "cool" anymore so you need someone wildly different, like Austin was to Hogan, to represent the product and freshen up the sport in general. He's hip, he's got an MMA-like fighting style, has punk rock tattoos and an edgy character, plus the whole sXe angle to work off in press to be the poster boy for a drug-free wrestling industry. A few years ago I saw Spin magazine do a profile on some celebrities and what music they were into, and one person they asked was CM Punk. I remember being surprised initially, but after a while it made sense, as I could see a publication like that doing a feature on CM Punk, depicting him as a cult figure of sorts and a rebel of the wrestling world, playing on the interest in the story of a wrestler that "The Wrestler" has raised in the mainstream conciousness. Depicting Punk as an "alternative" mainstream figure from the seedy world of wrestling, while also mentioning how he came up from the indies and is now in WWE is another good angle. He's a press goldmine, and someone who could carry WWE for years to come if he was given the ball.

[Citizen Grimm]

Honestly, Sheamus.

The guy is huge, has a unique look, and can actually talk. I doubt he could star in anything right away, but I could see him doing movies down the road.

Sheamus as an Irish mobster = awesome.

[MichaelMartini]

No one. I haven't seen any mainstream attention for Miz. Not doubting that there's been some blurbs along the lines of "Hey, a guy from real world is the WWE champ" and now that those reports are done, so is the attention.

Fact is, as long as they continue these super scripted characters of face is smiling guy who likes to have fun and heel is robotic, deliberate way of speaking, privlidged guy, no one is going to cross over. No one's got that "larger than life" personality to transcend the business right now because they're not allowed to express it.

[worldsstrongestman]

Dec 7, 2010 16:07:50 GMT -5 Hawk Hart said:

Tyler Perry's Cook Out: Starring Drew McIntyre as the white guy who the black daughter brings home and no one approves of until he shows his loyalty to the daughter and he is accepted.

Highlight: A little kid gets BBQ sauce all over Drew's white shirt prompting him to get angry, give the kid a Future Shock, and declare the party over. This will of course be forgiven in the end.

Madea should fight him at Wrestlemania to promote the movie.

[treysarver]

It's not that they're not allowed to express it, it's that none of them know how to express it. For example, I work as a stand up comedian. There are clubs where you can say whatever you want (we'll associate these clubs with the Attitude era) and then there's clubs were you have to keep it clean (this would be the PG era).

What separates the men from the boys in comedy are the ones that can work in both the clean clubs and the "anything goes" clubs. A clean comic will make much more money than a dirty comic purely off of being able to work at more places. Richard Pryor and George Carlin were legendary, but couldn't go to as many venues as Bill Cosby. In Pryor and Carlin's defense, they chose to use the style they used, the both could and had worked clean before. There are guys (I'll use Daniel Tosh as an example) that simply can't work clean.

I'm rambling, but my point is I think wrestlers aren't looking outside the box enough. They're thinking, "I can't do this" or, "I can't do that". What they need to focus on is what they can do, and run with that. John Cena, as much as you guys hate him, takes what the PG guidelines give him and he runs with it.

I loved the Attitude era as much as the next guy, but I blame the wrestlers for this more than I blame creative.

[MichaelMartini]

Dec 8, 2010 2:04:15 GMT -5 treysarver said:

It's not that they're not allowed to express it, it's that none of them know how to express it. For example, I work as a stand up comedian. There are clubs where you can say whatever you want (we'll associate these clubs with the Attitude era) and then there's clubs were you have to keep it clean (this would be the PG era).

What separates the men from the boys in comedy are the ones that can work in both the clean clubs and the "anything goes" clubs. A clean comic will make much more money than a dirty comic purely off of being able to work at more places. Richard Pryor and George Carlin were legendary, but couldn't go to as many venues as Bill Cosby. In Pryor and Carlin's defense, they chose to use the style they used, the both could and had worked clean before. There are guys (I'll use Daniel Tosh as an example) that simply can't work clean.

I'm rambling, but my point is I think wrestlers aren't looking outside the box enough. They're thinking, "I can't do this" or, "I can't do that". What they need to focus on is what they can do, and run with that. John Cena, as much as you guys hate him, takes what the PG guidelines give him and he runs with it.

I loved the Attitude era as much as the next guy, but I blame the wrestlers for this more than I blame creative.

I think it's more of an issue of them getting scripted promos now. Even the attitude era stuff wasn't laced with profanities. Even Cena is not immune. His 5 questions segment online, which was all him, was way better than anything they've had him say on Raw.

Good luck with the comedy btw.

[johnpricesuperstar]

Triple H should have been Thor. He has the right look.
I think Eddie Gurrerro could have been a huge movie star too.