I miss Shark Boy

[Sephiroth]

And I hope I'm not the only one. Sure, his act was silly, childish, and over the top-but that was the whole point! He offered a lighter, more kid friendly side to wrestling, and some of his segments delivered laughs aplenty. And, oh yeah, he is actually good in the ring! For a character that could only go so far, he always delivered the goods. I loved his team with Curry Man and still wish TNA had had Daffney break out her Shark Girl character to team with them, even for a short run.

[Celgress]

I also miss Shark Boy.

[bigfatpaulie]

I miss him too, and I'll admit that I laughed at a lot of his stuff. Stone Cold Shark Boy had me in stitches from the second it debuted. Give me a shell yeah!

[Sephiroth]

Go ahead and tell me this wouldn't have been gold

[Deleted]

I missed Sharkboy back in 2009. Didn't even know there was a sharkgirl?



This man should have been a 5 time TNA champion by now!!! Curryman should have held the belt at least once too.

[Sephiroth]

Mar 4, 2014 4:48:45 GMT -5 @torgaddon said:

I missed Sharkboy back in 2009. Didn't even know there was a sharkgirl?

It was a character played by everyone's favorite goth goddess, Daffney. She and Dean Roll are real life friends, and she created the character as kind of a tribute to him. They even partnered from time to time. I think it would have been fun if she had used the character during her TNA run. I could just have pictured Shark Girl biting Angelina or Velvet! And seriously, she was freaking adorable as Shark Girl

And personally, I would have at least figured Shark Boy would get a short run with the X Division title, or the tag belts with one of his various partners. Speaking of which, I think its testament to how great the man is that he was able to get funny segments out of New Jack-NEW JACK of all people!

[chazraps]

TNA messed up huge by pairing James Storm with Gunner than with Shark Boy. The tremendous gold of Shark-Storm would have been the stuff of legends.

[sebulba]

Do I miss Shark Boy? Shell yeah!!

[bigfatpaulie]

Mar 4, 2014 17:16:24 GMT -5 chazraps said:

TNA messed up huge by pairing James Storm with Gunner than with Shark Boy. The tremendous gold of Shark-Storm would have been the stuff of legends.

If this happened, they would need to bring back Matt Hardy and use his WWE theme, except dub over the lyrics to say "I can slap a sharknado"

[Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks]

Shark Boy + Tigre Uno = TIGER SHARK

[Sephiroth]

This video says it all, really. A big part of what I love about Shark Boy isn't just the comedy of his whole act-its that he took a character that by every conceivable means should have been short lived and stupid and absolutely ran away with it. And he did it in no small part by just throwing himself, heart and soul into it and playing every aspect of the gimmick for all it was worth. Splashing in a water park, freaking out on the Jaws ride, palling around with Popeye? So many other wrestlers never could have pulled that kind of stuff off, but with Shark Boy it fit and it worked. Even after he took on the Stone Cold persona, he somehow found ways to play the whole thing for all it was worth-clam juice anyone? And then there was the other half: being a solid worker in the ring. The guy was sort of like Jericho or Tito Santnana in that he was a good all round hand between the ropes and could always be counted on to pull of a decent match, no matter who he was working with. I do kind of miss his earlier days when he did a lot more high flying, but age and injuries take their toll on everyone. And I suppose part of me just misses the time in TNA that he was most associated with, when TNA was actually a fun show to watch. Still, if TNA ever gets around to trying to renew the X Division, I say Shark Boy should be at the top of their list.

[Kevin Hamilton]

His Stone Cold knock off kinda killed it for me. It was funny at first, but wore think quickly.

[Ryushinku]

I first saw him years ago and yeah, I like him a lot. As said, it's just nice to have these more outright fun characters around in pro wrestling and much moreso when they're good wrestlers rather than the gimmick being all they've got.

Even in the Stone Cold parody, which seemed a waste of his character and doomed to go nowhere, he was still able to provide a few moments of gold.

A team with Daffney, or even with her as an interfering manager, would've been great.

[sunnytaker]

count me in on the ones who was hoping Storm would pick Shark Boy as his partner instead of Mr. "cheer me i'm an ex-soldier" "Intensity" Gunner. Shark Storm- while not only sounding like a Sci-Fi channel movie of the week would be great. they could have beer and clam juice toasts. The finisher writes itself- a Chummer right into the Last Call superkick. it'd be like Stone Cold and HBK as tag partners (if you squint REEEEEEAL hard>.

and they could have a running gag where shark boy keeps trying to make Storm drink clam juice which Storm wants no part of. Shark Boy's success in this goal turns Storm heel on him down the road.

[AJ Smudgico]

The first time I heard of him, was either on a board like this. or Wrestlecrap, or something like that. As I didn't have satellite tv at the time, I did all my research online as everything about his act fascinated me, Here was a guy, who impersonated Stone Cold, but whilst dressed as a half man, half shark mutant? I looked him up and was transfixed at the way he got away with such stupidity AND made it work.

I have been a fan ever since! I ordered the mask, I dressed as him for Hallowe'en, and my mates, despite being stunned at my 'stupid outfit' (they ain't wrestling fans) started my new nickname of 'Sharky'

So do I miss him? Shell yeah!

[Sephiroth]

You know what should have happened?
Back when Shark Boy and Curry Man were teaming, they should have had a feud with the Rock n Rave Infection where they keep losing because Curry Man, the dancing party animal, became enamored of Christy Hemme, who would use her feminine wilds to distract him and cost them the match. Eventually Christy officially rejects Curry Man, taunting him and leaving him heartbroken in the ring.

The next week they do a backstage interview before their rematch, but Curry Man refuses to do his dance because he is still so sad over Christy, and Shark Boy tries to cheer him by assuring him "there's other fish in the sea." Later on they make their entrance, Curry Man still acting depressed, but before they reach the ring Shark Boy pauses, points back up the ramp to the entryway-and out comes Shark Girl! Curry Man instantly perks at the sight of her, and after their inevitable win she joins them to celebrate in the ring; Shark Boy starts to gesture to the audience, but Shark Girl stops him, holds a hand to her ear-and Curty Man's music hits as she launches into his dance. The announcers go ballistic and the crowd cheers as Curry Man looks on in amazement, obviously infatuated. No longer distracted, and with a valet of their own as a counter balance, the faces go on to a final victory over the heels at a PPV.
And I haven't even had any drinks all day!

[mrbananagrabber]

To this day I don't understand how he managed to do the Stone Cold gimmick, same moves, same mannerisms, same name..and not get sued by WWE.

[Hurbster]

They probably understood it was a parody and treated it as such.

Did WWE get sued for Gillberg at all ?

[sebulba]

Mar 5, 2014 0:32:32 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

His Stone Cold knock off kinda killed it for me. It was funny at first, but wore think quickly.

I suppose you could say that it (shark) tanked.........

*cough*

*watches tumbleweed roll slowly across the thread*

I'll see myself out......

[Ken: The Hero of WWE]

For the longest time Shark Boy was the best part of TNA. He should come back.