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Post by audiencewatching on Oct 30, 2012 8:41:03 GMT -5
I think we're all aware that Del Rios booking consists of a throw away match on Raw where he re-applies or refuses to release the cross arm breaker...which leads into his feud with whomever, who he then loses to on PPV...the cycle repeats.
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How do you break the cycle and what story can you give Del Rio to make him interesting?
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 30, 2012 8:43:57 GMT -5
Actually have him do Mexican rich guy stuff, instead of telling us all the time he's a Mexican rich guy. You know, show him making American immigrants do his gardening or something.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Oct 30, 2012 8:44:54 GMT -5
Put him and Ricardo in the tag team division against Team Friendship.
The relationship between him and Ricardo could totally be expanded, and it would also get him out of the Smackdown upper-card to reinvigorate his stale character.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2012 8:47:12 GMT -5
Actually have him do Mexican rich guy stuff, instead of telling us all the time he's a Mexican rich guy. You know, show him making American immigrants do his gardening or something. This. Turn him into a Mexican Ted DiBiase. An idea I had for Del Rio was for him to spend a ludicrous amount of money to bring back the hardcore title, but instead of the old crappy belt he buys a new one which has gold and diamonds all over it. Del Rio works best in the ring as a brawler/hardcore type guy anyways. |
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Post by #RUDO Coco Del Rio on Oct 30, 2012 8:49:29 GMT -5
Make him the eccentric billionaire that he's supposed to be instead of a guy that just has a lot of nice cars. That Money in the Bank ad was golden and the leopard-print wheelchair was a good touch when he got injured.
Inject some classic DiBiase in him. Make him pay for his contendership. Pay off a hitman to do his dirty work (he can work with Barrett for this).
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Oct 30, 2012 9:24:11 GMT -5
They missed the boat on him and it's never coming back to port. They had a chance last year when he was red hot going into the Rumble and blew it to give Edge a win in his last match.
Kinda like how they're blowing it with Ryback.
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Post by fortknox on Oct 30, 2012 9:29:43 GMT -5
They missed the boat on him and it's never coming back to port. They had a chance last year when he was red hot going into the Rumble and blew it to give Edge a win in his last match. Kinda like how they're blowing it with Ryback. Well it's not like they knew it was going to be his last match. I figured if Edge hadn't retired Del Rio would have won the belt at Extreme Rules. |
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 30, 2012 9:30:04 GMT -5
Give him a pencil thin mustache and make him a telenova soap opera villain.
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Post by hitch on Oct 30, 2012 9:33:03 GMT -5
Have him in a gimmick where the cars he drives turn out to be cars stolen from other WWE superstars and have an angle where he just takes other people's belongings and claims them as his own. Like RepoMan without the mask or the gurning
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Oct 30, 2012 9:36:48 GMT -5
They missed the boat on him and it's never coming back to port. They had a chance last year when he was red hot going into the Rumble and blew it to give Edge a win in his last match. Kinda like how they're blowing it with Ryback. Well it's not like they knew it was going to be his last match. I figured if Edge hadn't retired Del Rio would have won the belt at Extreme Rules. Royal Rumble winner wins belt at Extreme Rules does not have the ring to it, or the "prestige" as Rumble winner wins the Belt at Mania. Also, they knew prior to the Mania match that it was Edge's last stand. |
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Post by The Sam on Oct 30, 2012 9:37:46 GMT -5
3 words, Chris Masters Sombrero.
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 30, 2012 9:51:22 GMT -5
3 words, Chris Masters Sombrero. His Sombrero would also have it's own announcer. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2012 9:53:33 GMT -5
Give him a more impactful finish, or make some moves that he uses, like the enzuguri and the senton bomb become more powerful.
The armbar is a good submission approach, but it shouldn't be your finisher all the time.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Oct 30, 2012 9:55:00 GMT -5
They missed the boat on him and it's never coming back to port. They had a chance last year when he was red hot going into the Rumble and blew it to give Edge a win in his last match. This. When he won the Rumble, then failed to take the world title (on two consecutive occasions, let's not omit that part), it sort of deflated him. Guy then turns around, continues the destiny spiel up until he cashes in on Punk at SummerSlam, thus derailing that angle without making up for any lost ground at all, and then proceeds to hotshot the title betwixt himself, Punk, and Cena until November. Now, with no title, he's still talking destiny! It's like WWE wrote the book on how to sink someone's heat in six months or less.  |
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Post by Krimzon on Oct 30, 2012 9:55:19 GMT -5
Give him a pencil thin mustache and make him a telenova soap opera villain. And there's your gimmick, people. Film mini telenovela segments starring Del Rio. Turn the ham & overacting up to eleven and it'll be gold. Have him act alongside Rosa Mendes & PrimEpico for maximum lulz. |
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 30, 2012 9:56:10 GMT -5
Just make him fun.
He worked well for the like 2 weeks where he acted like a goofy rich guy with the bellas... having a wheelchair with leopard print stripes and stuff.
Likewise he worked well for the one week where he was a deluded world champion who thougth he was a fan favourite.
For some reason though, WWE scrapped those gimmick changes to make him dull and generic (Or intense and even more vicious than ever! If you're a WWE writer). I'd turn him into a drugs baron. Have it be revealed he made his millions selling cocaine.
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Post by Dub H on Oct 30, 2012 10:07:38 GMT -5
Make him angrier and more AGRESSIVE.
And every wiki he defeats a low midcarder-jobber ,after the match he refuses to let the armbreaker go.
I'm sure it will work
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2012 10:45:15 GMT -5
A WWE films James Bond ripoff with Sin Cara as Bond and Del Rio as an egomaniacal villain which leads to the novela gimmick already suggested in this thread.
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Post by Citizen Grimm on Oct 30, 2012 10:57:55 GMT -5
Actually have him do Mexican rich guy stuff, instead of telling us all the time he's a Mexican rich guy. You know, show him making American immigrants do his gardening or something. This. Turn him into a Mexican Ted DiBiase. An idea I had for Del Rio was for him to spend a ludicrous amount of money to bring back the hardcore title, but instead of the old crappy belt he buys a new one which has gold and diamonds all over it. Del Rio works best in the ring as a brawler/hardcore type guy anyways. Exactly what I came in to post, sans the Hardcore title part. I'd also giving him a finisher outside of the armbar. It not a bad finisher at all, but he could really use something with a bit more flare. Maybe have him use a loaded boot and do his enzuguri. |
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Post by hitch on Oct 30, 2012 11:01:50 GMT -5
The ring announcer has to go. It adds NOTHING to the character.
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