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Post by The Rick Jericho on May 15, 2024 20:20:17 GMT -5
He goes to Japan in January as an "NXT representative." WWE doesn't even hype it up on TV or show any footage.
Some how wins the Hertiage Cup.
Then the mouthpiece of the stable gets fired.
Then his backup gets kidnapped and hopefully is gone from NXT for a while.
Then he loses the heritage cup.
So what becomes of Charlie Dempsey now? He doesn't have the comedy chops of his father. Doesn't have much personality right now. Doesn't ooze the charisma like a Lexis King does when he shows up on your TV and has prescence.
Where do you go with a guy who doesn't show a lot character at this point and gets crickets for the most part as a reaction. He doesn't fit the mold of the young and fun NXT characters like most of the others on the roster. He really is an awkward fit at this point.
Maybe he just becomes Pretty Deadley's third long lost partner who is constant angry and doesn't smile. Or he simple becomes Pete Dunne 2 on the main roster, with one facial reaction 24/7.
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Post by CMWaters on May 15, 2024 21:11:59 GMT -5
His father hands him a hard hat and flannel shirt, telling him to find his true calling.
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Post by HIM on May 15, 2024 21:15:58 GMT -5
He'll be fine, they just need to work on him a bit. Tbh, all he needs to do is cut a no nonsense promo about him not living up to his potential and boom, people are behind him and you can have him as a major babyface.
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Post by 4real on May 16, 2024 4:08:51 GMT -5
Changes his name to CD and starts trying to sell his ‘totally fire mixtape bro’ to the whole NXT roster.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on May 16, 2024 5:55:01 GMT -5
Changes his name to CD and starts trying to sell his ‘totally fire mixtape bro’ to the whole NXT roster. Joe Coffey than feuds with him because Coffey is the only one who can sell Bootleg and independent merch |
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Post by callmekc on May 16, 2024 7:52:56 GMT -5
He'll be fine. The NQCC had a short shelf life regardless of Gulak getting canned. I think the remaining members have a higher ceiling outside the group than in it, at least as it stands right now.
Dempsey's (and the group's as a whole) problem is that he's a wrestle guy that wrestlers good. There's nothing more to it. And you need more than that to get over and stay over. Gunther murders you, Dragonov kills himself and then you in order to win (also stop headbutting people for f***'S sake), Gable can do comedy and be serious, his Dad was one of the best wrestlers in history but is more memorable for acting like a panto villain than that. Charlie needs to grow a personality and be someone in the ring that isn't just "wrestler man #376".
There's a few ways to do that. Push him as a solo guy in NXT with some batshit angle that would only work in NXT to force him to show some personality. Or send him to NOAH to learn how to get over in front of a crowd he can't speak to in order to gain some presence and ring personality that isn't just 'put up your fists and make a frowny face'
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Post by Allie Kitsune on May 16, 2024 8:25:17 GMT -5
He retires to start a homestyle restaurant serving Amish and Mennonite favorites in the heart of Lancaster PA.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 16, 2024 10:27:20 GMT -5
Puts the weight back on and goes back to his nickname "Bull".
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Post by ayumidah on May 16, 2024 15:43:24 GMT -5
Kemp and Bourne appeared towards the end of his match against Tony D., so they're still around.
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Post by lildude8218 on May 16, 2024 17:35:28 GMT -5
New Catch Republic win the tag titles on Raw. Dempsey shows up to challenge them. He says his partner is someone from Pete Dunne's past. They have the match, Dempsey comes out alone. Dunne attacks Tyler Bate. Dempsey says the man from Dunne's past is "the real Pete Dunne, the one who wouldn't put up with your nonsense." Dempsey pins Tyler. Him and Dunne are now champions.
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Post by Forbidden Magnitude on May 16, 2024 18:04:05 GMT -5
He seemed a lot more confident out there without a stable.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on May 16, 2024 18:05:28 GMT -5
i think as long as you keep him out there on his own he will eventually get over
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on May 16, 2024 18:36:35 GMT -5
What if he becomes the first man that Noam Dar eats?
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fadeaway on May 16, 2024 18:38:01 GMT -5
Twerk videos
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Post by crowley1986 on May 17, 2024 6:13:23 GMT -5
Changes his name to CD and starts trying to sell his ‘totally fire mixtape bro’ to the whole NXT roster. Joe Coffey than feuds with him because Coffey is the only one who can sell Bootleg and independent merch While Earl Hebner winks to the camera |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on May 18, 2024 17:56:45 GMT -5
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Post by avenger on May 19, 2024 6:09:50 GMT -5
Dempsey needs to drop some of the things that his dad did, and find what works for him. Specifically two things - the voice and the facial expressions 1) The voice. You've never heard Regal's real voice. I might have heard Regal's real voice, but that would have been on TV in the late 1980s, but it isn't what you hear on TV, even in his early WCW days as white meat babyface Steve Regal. I can't believe that weird transatlantic voice we hear on NXT is Dempsey's real voice. It sounds unnatural. Drop the fake voice, and use his real ones. 2) The facial expressions. Regal only started using these when he became Lord Steven Regal in WCW. Being a comedic heel means that he was able to tap into his love of UK comedy, and there's huge influences from Tommy Cooper and Eric Morecambe in his facial expressions. Dempsey isn't playing a comedic heel, he's a tough guy, but when he pulls that face that he does, he looks like a cross between an eight year old who has just watched their first action movie, and Mandy Carter, and I just can't take him seriously. |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 19, 2024 8:22:07 GMT -5
Alvarez is right about him, if he's gonna have a shooter gimmick he really, really needs to start training in some sort of grappling based martial arts. You've got Shayna Bazsler on the roster, have her start training Dempsey in catch wrestling or something. Go to one of the millions of BJJ gyms in the US, roll a bit. Valerie Loureda is right there! I know she's a Taekwondo person, but she was 4-1 in Bellator she must be able to show the dude some shit!
Dude doesn't need to have be a black belt, but he really needs some moderate competency in grappling if he's gonna have a shooter gimmick. I don't think he's actually spent anytime working on shoot grappling, and it shows. Especially in modern wrestling where a considerable amount of guys and gals who don't have shooter gimmicks still train BJJ in their spare time and know how to properly apply and escape holds.
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Post by krozor on May 19, 2024 10:10:29 GMT -5
Given Dempsey's look, the Charlie Dempsey parking lot thread immediately had me thinking of the Alan Partridge "Dan! Dan! DAN! Dan!....Dan!" parking lot clip, and the title of this thread had me thinking of the "What happens now? What happens now?!?" ending of Knowing Me, Knowing You.
So what I'm saying is: give Charlie Dempsey an Alan Partridge gimmick and watch the money roll in.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on May 19, 2024 11:51:40 GMT -5
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