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Post by Orange on Jun 22, 2013 12:51:45 GMT -5
So, I was thinking about this while watching Impact last night and thought it might make for a fun thread. Obviously, the chances of wrestling going through a new boom period seem slim to none, at least in the immediate future, so we'll have to ignore the obvious societal changes that'd have to take place and pretend that a wrestler (or wrestlers) would have enough crossover power to bring forth a boom on their own.
For some reason, I think Magnus has that crossover power. Young, good looking guy with a unique look that doesn't look like the wrestlers of old (in terms of attire and whatnot). If I had to pick just one guy that'd be able to crossover and get a mainstream audience interested in wrestling again, it'd be Magnus.
What say you, FAN?
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Jun 22, 2013 14:01:56 GMT -5
I feel like DOC has it in him to be a big star if he's just given the opportunity. The guy exudes intensity.
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Post by TK The Friendly Robot on Jun 22, 2013 14:07:27 GMT -5
Completely agree with Magnus, he's also got hosting and acting experience to boot. From what I've seen of Jamin Olivencia in OVW I think he has a lot of potential as well, he's not quite there yet but bring him out of the rough and shine him up and he's a diamond that can and will draw money. I think Michael Elgin could be that Rough Neck guy that's needed in every superstar roster. I also think TJ Perkins has the look and ability to go far as far as he wants given the spotlight.
That's just a handful of guys I'd have on a "boom period" roster.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Jun 22, 2013 15:35:42 GMT -5
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jun 22, 2013 15:51:38 GMT -5
I hate to say it, being such a huge fan, but he falls into the "HBK/Bret Hart" tier of being one of the best, but not having the right amount of "it" like a Cena, Austin, or Hogan.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2013 17:20:22 GMT -5
I hate to say it, being such a huge fan, but he falls into the "HBK/Bret Hart" tier of being one of the best, but not having the right amount of "it" like a Cena, Austin, or Hogan. I used to think the same, but he is so over right now that I honestly feel that he can take off into one of the top guys of all time. He just has that connection with the fans that so few have. Fans eat up everything that he does. I'm a believer.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Jun 22, 2013 17:43:22 GMT -5
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Post by SOR on Jun 22, 2013 18:15:48 GMT -5
Honestly? Nobody can create a boom period again. Wrestling just isn't popular enough anymore and there's no real stand out talents anymore.
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Post by Sam Punk on Jun 22, 2013 18:58:00 GMT -5
Jeff Hardy is the only name I can come up with.
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Post by slappy on Jun 22, 2013 19:02:29 GMT -5
RD Evans
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 22, 2013 19:12:21 GMT -5
Correction...
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Jun 22, 2013 19:14:22 GMT -5
Correction... mmmm, i think Hitogoroshi got it right
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jun 22, 2013 20:24:48 GMT -5
I hate to say it, being such a huge fan, but he falls into the "HBK/Bret Hart" tier of being one of the best, but not having the right amount of "it" like a Cena, Austin, or Hogan. Cena, Austin, or Hogan?!? Cena isn't even in the same league as Austin or Hogan. In all the years that WWE has shoved Cena down our throats, wrestling's popularity has been in a decline, not a boom.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jun 22, 2013 21:03:28 GMT -5
I hate to say it, being such a huge fan, but he falls into the "HBK/Bret Hart" tier of being one of the best, but not having the right amount of "it" like a Cena, Austin, or Hogan. Cena, Austin, or Hogan?!? Cena isn't even in the same league as Austin or Hogan. In all the years that WWE has shoved Cena down our throats, wrestling's popularity has been in a decline, not a boom. I'm pretty sure that the WWE is the most profitable it has ever been right now.
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Post by Digital Witness on Jun 22, 2013 21:26:53 GMT -5
Trying to find the next Hogan or the next Austin is about as futile as trying to find the next Nirvana. You're never going to find it, its just going to one day hit us like a bag of bricks.
Its a fun speculation though, I will say that.
Just based on how over he is and with what little it really took to get there, Daniel Bryan is about the only person I see right now that is close.
Fans have a connection to Bryan that hasn't been seen since Jeff Hardy was still wrestling in WWE, and not really since the Attitude era which was the last time I recall EVERYBODY getting a great reaction.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2013 21:37:31 GMT -5
Dean Ambrose.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2013 21:45:09 GMT -5
In 2010 if all things were handled properly I really thought that D'Angelo Dinero and Ken Anderson had "Rock & Austin" potential. It's extremely difficult to say it would be enough to start another boom period but the charisma and talent between them I really think they could have built them to be really big deals in wrestling.
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Post by Mac on Jun 22, 2013 21:52:33 GMT -5
It'll never happen again, and day by day it becomes less likely. The more guys who get brought into the business through WWE's developmental program the more cookie cutter nobodies we're going to get down the pipeline. We'll be stuck with a hundred interchangable parts just going through the motions. WWE considers itself more than a wrestling company now. So we'll see more straight to DVD movies and reality shows using "sports entertainment TV" as nothing more than a vehicle to get them to do something outside the relm of "wrestling"
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Post by "I'm Batman..." on Jun 22, 2013 22:43:54 GMT -5
Boom Boom Colt Cabana?
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Post by eDemento2099 on Jun 23, 2013 1:06:21 GMT -5
Cena, Austin, or Hogan?!? Cena isn't even in the same league as Austin or Hogan. In all the years that WWE has shoved Cena down our throats, wrestling's popularity has been in a decline, not a boom. I'm pretty sure that the WWE is the most profitable it has ever been right now. I find that hard to believe. I was a kid when Hulkamania went wild in the 80s, and was already a huge wrestling fan by the time the second major wrestling boom hit in the late 90s. Kids that used to make fun of me for liking wrestling did a total 180 and jumped on the wrestling bandwagon because it was the 'cool' thing at the time. Wrestling T-shirts could be seen everywhere, to the point that even stores that specialized in rock band merchandise stocked up on wrestling merch. I don't see any of that stuff happening any more. WWE may be doing well, financially, but its hard for them not to when they've virtually monopolized nationally televised wrestling in the United States and Canada. My friend and I hate the current WWE product; the only reason why WWE has received any money from us over the last 7 years is because the monopoly owns a vast tape library and occasionally publishes some retrospective and/or biographical DVDs worth buying.
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