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Post by lez 3:16 on Jan 3, 2012 17:42:42 GMT -5
what are your thoughts?
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Post by moneyman20 on Jan 3, 2012 17:45:31 GMT -5
No, simply because "Stone Cold Steve Austin" is just an extension of the man himself.
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Post by Cela on Jan 3, 2012 18:16:36 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a gimmick. He did it damn well, but it was just a gimmick.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Jan 3, 2012 18:17:49 GMT -5
No or it would have worked every other time WWE and TNA have tried to do it.
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Post by Krimzon on Jan 3, 2012 18:19:04 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a gimmick. He did it damn well, but it was just a gimmick. Phantasio was a gimmick. Battle Kat was a gimmick. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, as said earlier, was an amped up version of the man behind the character. It belongs to him and him alone. |
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jan 3, 2012 19:00:13 GMT -5
A tough, beer-drinkin', authority-defyin' redneck badass? Yeah, a lot of people could play that character successfully. A lot of them already have, both before and after Austin's heyday.
But there's only one Stone Cold.
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Post by Peeetah on Jan 3, 2012 19:22:44 GMT -5
Bradshaw could probably have got close.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2012 19:23:29 GMT -5
Colin Delaney could have done it easily
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 3, 2012 19:37:57 GMT -5
A tough, beer-drinkin', authority-defyin' redneck badass? Yeah, a lot of people could play that character successfully. A lot of them already have, both before and after Austin's heyday. But there's only one Stone Cold. APA Bradshaw and Cowboy James Storm fit that description. But like you say, they are not Stone Cold. Only Austin can be Stone Cold. Anyone else can be similar, but not the same. |
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Post by Bone Daddy on Jan 3, 2012 19:39:04 GMT -5
Sandman? Actually, he DID make it work. kinda.
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Post by Paco on Jan 3, 2012 19:44:24 GMT -5
"Dr. D" David Schultz?
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Post by DJ Maniak on Jan 3, 2012 23:16:35 GMT -5
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Post by percymania on Jan 3, 2012 23:19:31 GMT -5
Brian Pillman.
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Post by hughmorris on Jan 3, 2012 23:36:28 GMT -5
What?
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Post by joebob27 on Jan 3, 2012 23:37:10 GMT -5
Taker did it. Honestly he seemed more low-rent redneck than Austin did. He just replaced the beer with a motorcycle.
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Post by Yami Daimao on Jan 3, 2012 23:55:23 GMT -5
Stone Cold Savio Vega wouldn't have worked.
It was meant for Austin, and Austin only.
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Post by Some Guy on Jan 3, 2012 23:57:13 GMT -5
That was actually my thought too. MAYBE Brian Pillman, but no one else really could have (Sandman was a homeless man's version of Stone Cold). |
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Post by Junkenstein on Jan 4, 2012 10:04:45 GMT -5
Bradshaw could probably have got close. Bradshaw's APA character had a few Austin-like traits, but I don't think he had the likeability or the look to pull off the everyman role that Austin did so well against McMahon. The best wrestling characters are always those that are exaggerations of the actual performers. Which coincidentally is why the JBL character was so brilliant, cos it was clearly not far off the man himself. |
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Post by rapidfire187 on Jan 4, 2012 10:59:35 GMT -5
I think it would have been hard to not get over with that gimmick back then. It probably wouldn't have been as good if anybody else had done it.
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Post by Jtre on Jan 4, 2012 17:27:49 GMT -5
A tough, beer-drinkin', authority-defyin' redneck badass? Yeah, a lot of people could play that character successfully. A lot of them already have, both before and after Austin's heyday. But there's only one Stone Cold. The uniqueness of Austin's gimmick is not that he was a, "tough, beer-drinkin' authority-defyin' redneck badass," but rather that Austin was able to capture the imagination of people who, in many cases, were the exact polar opposite of every adjective used to describe him. AJ Style looks and sounds like a redneck, but comes off more like the kind who hangs out on the hood of his rusty IROC at the softball field while listening to his 1988 Too Short cassette. James Storm has hell of a lot of personality and charisma but also has the look of a real trailer-parker who might actually have a white sheet robe hanging in his closet. For the record, I don't actually think Storm is a Klansman, but I do think he could have a hard time garnering mainstream popularity or developing a large fanbase which consists of Blacks or Latinos. Austin is a one-of-a-kind talent who applied his unique charisma to a less-than-mainstream gimmick and became arguably the biggest star in the history of his profession. It's hard to imagine that anyone else could have done the same with anywhere near the success. |
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