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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 6, 2015 18:07:50 GMT -5
I always read that before he died Owen was the one the WWF brass wanted to give "The game" gimmick to. I just don't get how that would have worked. I think of The Game as a gimmick in the same way I think of The Rock or Hulk Hogan as a gimmick. In that the gimmick is mostly just the performer's personality turned way up.
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Post by Big Poppa Pumpkin on Apr 6, 2015 18:10:28 GMT -5
I don't really buy it in the slightest, seems far more likely that they intended to make him look like a joke as the blue blazer for as long as they possibly could.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2015 18:12:13 GMT -5
I don't buy it either, and it was absolutely the wrong kind of character for Owen. anyway.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Apr 6, 2015 18:14:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard this before and thought the same. I always assumed it was just being overstated and that maybe there were plans to give him the nickname and play up his in-ring credentials.
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Post by bigjohnsons on Apr 6, 2015 18:20:03 GMT -5
It would have been a nickname nothing more
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Post by SkullTrauma on Apr 6, 2015 18:21:23 GMT -5
This is still one of the stupidest internet rumors to exist. There was never any truth to it. People keep claiming it came from Triple H but nobody has ever provided a source. The only "source" for any of this is Owen Hart's IMDB page.
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Post by Tyrannosaurus Sex on Apr 6, 2015 18:38:50 GMT -5
What exactly IS The Game gimmick anyway? Triple H just seemed to be the same as he was in D-X and after, but with a nickname and a Motorhead theme.
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Post by SkullTrauma on Apr 6, 2015 18:41:55 GMT -5
It isn't a gimmick, that's what makes the whole thing stupid. It was a throwaway line in an interview that caught on.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Apr 6, 2015 18:42:29 GMT -5
20 minute Owen Hart promos every week.
Yikes.
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Post by bigjohnsons on Apr 6, 2015 18:49:20 GMT -5
20 minute Owen Hart promos every week. Yikes. YOU SEEEEUGHHHH IM OWEN HARTUGHHHHH , OR YOU CAN CALL ME THE GAMEUGHHHHHH |
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Post by tms on Apr 6, 2015 20:38:16 GMT -5
20 minute Owen Hart promos every week. Yikes. It would have been better than the crappy ego-fests we ended up with instead. |
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Post by A damn road sign on Apr 6, 2015 20:44:53 GMT -5
It wouldn't.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Apr 6, 2015 20:44:58 GMT -5
"Time to play the game, whoooooo!"
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Post by bmfjules on Apr 6, 2015 20:57:44 GMT -5
I'm not only the King of Harts, I'm the King of Kings.. of Harts!
Whoooooo!
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Post by JCBaggee on Apr 6, 2015 21:06:15 GMT -5
From what I heard, the original idea behind "The Game" was that he was a "student of the game" and thus an expert ring general.
So it's basically Ringmaster with a slightly less crappy name.
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Post by chronocross on Apr 6, 2015 21:07:30 GMT -5
I never bought into that, just one of those rumors started up on the net.
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Post by Amazing Kitsune on Apr 6, 2015 21:49:56 GMT -5
Owen secretly marries Stephanie, humiliates Test and Vince, and starts the Hart-McMahon Era. Gets constant heat(love?) by allegedly taking phone calls from Bret each week.
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Post by mizerable on Apr 6, 2015 22:17:09 GMT -5
It would have been a nickname nothing more Just like almost all of Owen's nicknames. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 6, 2015 22:48:11 GMT -5
From what I heard, the original idea behind "The Game" was that he was a "student of the game" and thus an expert ring general. So it's basically Ringmaster with a slightly less crappy name. Exactly how Triple H started the gimmick. At least Owen has the, no pun intended, well maybe it is, pedigree to back it up. If you're imagining Owen in leather and denim and a Motorhead theme song and a sledgehammer, you're picturing it wrong. |
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