Dat Dude
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Post by Dat Dude on Feb 22, 2013 17:00:15 GMT -5
One of the things folks like Austin, Rock, and other used to say is that their characters were just who they are but with the volume turned way up. But other performers thats not always the case. Some wrestlers have personas that are the polar opposite of who they are as people.
Who are some performers (past or present) that you feel fit that category?
My guess would be:
Michelle McCool, a former teacher and highly educated woman playing a vallygirl.
Kane, a completely rational, well read gentlemen playing a deranged psychopath.
Cody Rhodes, a fairly nerdy and humble guy who plays a cocky and vain jock.
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jemtruman
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Post by jemtruman on Feb 22, 2013 17:06:46 GMT -5
Doesn't Kane actually have an English degree? Was he potentially a teacher too?
I imagine the Undertaker is likely pretty far from the dark gimmick. Mark Henry seems like a big teddy bear despite the monster gimmick too.
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Post by Kitchen Sink on Feb 22, 2013 17:08:31 GMT -5
Sin Cara actually has a face
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2013 17:09:21 GMT -5
Monster heels are to easy to do. Like Vadar, Foley, Henry, Kozlov are supposedly the nicest wrestlers that ever existed
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Post by BorneAgain on Feb 22, 2013 17:11:18 GMT -5
Lanny Poffo played an arrogant and self righteous jerk and in real life seems like a humble, self-effacing charmer.
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Post by Kidneys4Free on Feb 22, 2013 18:08:59 GMT -5
Doesn't Kane actually have an English degree? Was he potentially a teacher too? I imagine the Undertaker is likely pretty far from the dark gimmick. Mark Henry seems like a big teddy bear despite the monster gimmick too. He was a substitute teacher
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Post by agent817 on Feb 22, 2013 19:33:13 GMT -5
Lanny Poffo played an arrogant and self righteous jerk and in real life seems like a humble, self-effacing charmer. Lanny Poffo does live up to the name of his persona because he really is a smart guy. He is a great poet, too.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 22, 2013 19:34:44 GMT -5
Sin Cara actually has a face SLANDER!
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Post by PKO on Feb 22, 2013 19:37:30 GMT -5
Vickie Guerrero, super heel, is by all accounts one of the nicest people you can meet.
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Post by celticjobber on Feb 22, 2013 19:41:06 GMT -5
Vickie Guerrero, super heel, is by all accounts one of the nicest people you can meet. Not according to Chavo Sr. He says Vickie cut off all contact with Eddie's mom and the rest of his family soon after he died. When he was ranting about it on Twitter a few months ago, he had little nice to say about Vickie.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Feb 22, 2013 19:43:28 GMT -5
I suppose you could say Owen Harts character was meant to be a complete jerk. Yet as a person you hear nothing but positive things about him from the people who knew him
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Post by Sam Punk on Feb 22, 2013 19:59:01 GMT -5
Val Venis
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Feb 22, 2013 20:21:57 GMT -5
Was I the only one who read this thread as "polar opposites of JBL" ?
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Post by klapaucius on Feb 22, 2013 20:40:28 GMT -5
Was I the only one who read this thread as "polar opposites of JBL" ? I read as "polar opposites of IRS"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2013 20:54:58 GMT -5
Melina has said many times that the character she created (the heel, anyway) was a combination of the worst people she knew when she was growing up. I've talked to her many times. In real life she's a very quiet, modest, upstanding person, so I think she might be right. I've heard Christian is a really upright, nice guy in real life. Never met him or anything but people I've talked to who are familiar say he's not like his heel characters at all, either.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 22, 2013 21:01:11 GMT -5
I've heard Christian is a really upright, nice guy in real life. Never met him or anything but people I've talked to who are familiar say he's not like his heel characters at all, either. You clearly haven't talked to his slaves
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Feb 22, 2013 21:05:10 GMT -5
He seems pretty much like his character, a giant dick
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Feb 22, 2013 21:13:06 GMT -5
Was I the only one who read this thread as "polar opposites of JBL" ? I read as "polar opposites of IRS" So the "polar opposite of I.R.S." would be if Mike Rotunda had off shore bank accounts in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2013 21:13:20 GMT -5
Andre the Giant was not 7'4", but in fact, 4'7". The illusion was all created with camera tricks.
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Post by sdoyle7798 on Feb 22, 2013 21:34:24 GMT -5
Andre the Giant was not 7'4", but in fact, 4'7". The illusion was all created with camera tricks.
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