Rave
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Post by Rave on Mar 30, 2023 5:53:44 GMT -5
It is odd they avoid having those characters with the women. I guess maybe a lot of it is that they had stopped going to that well considerably more by the time women's wrestling finally really took off in mid 2010's. Come to think of it there really hasn't been a lot of patriotic All American Girl babyface characters either. I think just Madusa, Lacey Evans (when she's a face), and I guess Torrie Wilson who IIRC they billed as the All American Girl and was the poster girl of the first few WWE Great American Bash PPV's while also being the go to for the divas it seemed when they would do any patriotic photo shoots. To your second point, there was Terri Gold in the early days of WOW...didn't wear the stars and stripes, but she was pretty much Kurt Angle played FULLY straight face. WOW also had Amber O'Neal and Santana Garrett billed as the All-American Girls. The current incarnation has Americana.
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Post by greyfmdan on Mar 30, 2023 12:37:37 GMT -5
I’d go so far as to say Col. Ninotchka in GLOW was one of the best evil Russians in wrestling history. After Lana, she was the first name I thought of for this thread. It’s also of interest that when she turned, she “defected” to France instead of becoming the all-American Stars & Stripes face (during the patriotic Reagan era, no less). Trying to show a bit of character depth, perhaps?
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Post by Hypnosis on Mar 30, 2023 21:00:20 GMT -5
To your second point, there was Terri Gold in the early days of WOW...didn't wear the stars and stripes, but she was pretty much Kurt Angle played FULLY straight face. WOW also had Amber O'Neal and Santana Garrett billed as the All-American Girls. The current incarnation has Americana. Americana even looks like Garrett, funnily enough.
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Post by XIII on Mar 30, 2023 22:51:24 GMT -5
WWE needs one from some random country like when Ludvig Borga showed up and everyone was scratching their heads about Finland. I nominate someone to pretend to be from Denmark and they hate the USA. lol
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Post by john84 on Mar 30, 2023 23:19:40 GMT -5
WWE needs one from some random country like when Ludvig Borga showed up and everyone was scratching their heads about Finland. I nominate someone to pretend to be from Denmark and they hate the USA. lol How about Dijak? Isn't he from like Croatia?
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