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Post by avenger on Feb 28, 2013 18:15:35 GMT -5
It would have to be a heel - with a face, you need to build them up to the title run, so that fans get behind them during the chase (look at how Jerry Lynn flopped, he won the Lt-Heavy title on his debut as a face - there was no reason for people unaware of his ECW run to get behind him)
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Post by ERON on Feb 28, 2013 18:53:51 GMT -5
The only people it could have worked with in the past were Flair and mayyybe Goldberg or, if he was to compete in WWE, Great Muta. The only person it could work with now is Sting. I hadn't thought of Muta. He or Sting are pretty much the only active wrestlers I can buy winning the strap in their WWE debut. The only other way I could see it happening is if a fairly well-known or well-hyped athlete from another sport - MMA, NFL, the Olympics - switched to pro wrestling ala Ken Shamrock, Kurt Angle, or Mark Henry.
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Feb 28, 2013 23:42:45 GMT -5
Alternate universe scenario:
TNA gets huge in the US after WWE stocks plummet (Cena and Rock have a gay sex scandal)
Some TNA cast off makes his "big" debut in the WWE by winning the title.
Ladies and Gentle, your NEWWWW WWE champion ......Robbie E!!!!!!
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 1, 2013 0:59:13 GMT -5
It's a big, big gamble. You might think you have the next Goldberg, but for whatever reason, the fans may not take to him, and you end up with the next Billy Gunn.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2013 8:54:36 GMT -5
It's a big, big gamble. You might think you have the next Goldberg, but for whatever reason, the fans may not take to him, and you end up with the next Billy Gunn. Billy Gunn was perpetually over through every one of his post-Smoking Gunns gimmicks. His fan response was great, Hell, he was accepted (by fans) as one of the final four of the star studded 2001 Royal Rumble. No mock laughter or silence as he got moves in. "Being Billy Gunn'd" is one of those odd phrases like X-Pac heat but it's slightly worse given Billy always got a reaction whether it was as Mr Ass, Bad Ass Billy Gunn, The One, or Billy & Chuck Billy. That being said I'm a fan of the guy but I'm willing to bet most of the non-half dozen main eventers would love to have that level of overness for a prolonged period of time.
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Post by percymania on Mar 1, 2013 9:41:59 GMT -5
Sure, they could do it - but it doesn't make much sense. If you start at the top, you have nowhere to go but down. They kind of lamented that fact on the Big Show DVD.
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Post by segaz on Mar 2, 2013 14:42:17 GMT -5
It's nice to think about, but you'd all hate it if it did happen.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Mar 2, 2013 22:32:45 GMT -5
The ship has long sailed on a such a scenario. The one man who could have made it work was the late great John Tenta. He should have been booked to win an impromptu challenge for the WWF title, instead they just introduced him as a bad guy, albeit a real prick of a bad guy.
From Wikipedia.org: Tenta then made his WWF television debut on the November 11, 1989 edition of WWF Superstars of Wrestling, where he was planted in the audience as a normal spectator at the taping held in Wheeling, WV. During an in-ring interview with Gene Okerlund, Dino Bravo challenged The Ultimate Warrior to a strength competition. In order to demonstrate, Bravo and manager Jimmy Hart suggested that they pick a random audience member to come into the ring and sit on the backs of Bravo and the Ultimate Warrior as they did push-ups to see who could do the most. The Ultimate Warrior agreed, and Hart, after pretending to look around the audience, centered his attention on the very large Tenta who was sitting in the audience in casual clothing and appeared surprised. Tenta came down into the ring, identified himself as "John from West Virginia" and proceeded to sit on Bravo's back as he did a set of push-ups. During the Ultimate Warrior's set, however, Tenta jumped down onto the prone Ultimate Warrior using a seated senton that was adapted to be his signature move. Bravo and Tenta then beat and unleashed multiple big splashes on the prone Warrior. Both then celebrated as Tenta was inaugurated into the WWF as a heel with Hart as his manager. Tenta was pushed as The Canadian Earthquake — and by WrestleMania VI, simply Earthquake - an unstoppable monster heel who often sent his opponents out on a stretcher after repeatedly hitting them with his sitdown splash.
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Post by Essential1 on Mar 3, 2013 8:39:06 GMT -5
Yokozuna could of done it for sure.
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