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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Apr 12, 2013 17:41:18 GMT -5
I think most of these would be more accurately classified as great gimmicks that elevated performers who would've otherwise been lost in the shuffle.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2013 17:51:31 GMT -5
I disagree with 3/4 of those being stupid gimmicks.
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Post by craigdanbeaton on Apr 12, 2013 17:59:31 GMT -5
Anyone could of got Doink over. He's a Wrestling Clown kids are going to love that stuff regardless of who is under the paint But being loved by kids wasn't the point of Doink, he was a sadistic, scary clown originally and when Matt Bourne played him it was sensational, you'd get all the goofy clown stuff but he was genuinely unsettling and damn, damn good in the ring (Anyone who wants to see good Doink should look into his series of matches with Mr Perfect, absolutely brilliant little things)
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Apr 12, 2013 18:05:24 GMT -5
Anyone could of got Doink over. He's a Wrestling Clown kids are going to love that stuff regardless of who is under the paint But being loved by kids wasn't the point of Doink, he was a sadistic, scary clown originally and when Matt Bourne played him it was sensational, you'd get all the goofy clown stuff but he was genuinely unsettling and damn, damn good in the ring (Anyone who wants to see good Doink should look into his series of matches with Mr Perfect, absolutely brilliant little things)
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Apr 12, 2013 21:10:25 GMT -5
I don't understand how Razor Ramon was a bad gimmick. The character was basically a latino drug peddler/thug, a modern day version of the mafiosi character played by various wrestlers for decades, a character that still would have worked years later in the Attitude era. If Scott Hall being caucasian makes it a bad gimmick then every ethnic/foreigner character played by someone from a different ethnic group is a bad one. I's go with IRS, a wrestling tax man is cheap heat personified, something that should have very little staying power, but Mike Rotunda played him to perfection. Shawn Michaels should also be on the list, he started out as George Michael and quickly became a male stripper, something that should never have gotten over... It didn't at first, but they kept pushing him because he was good in the ring and eventually he made it work. it's not that Razor is a bad gimmick so much as it's a blatant riff on Tony Montana that Vince was somehow utterly clueless to.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 13, 2013 7:32:57 GMT -5
it's not that Razor is a bad gimmick so much as it's a blatant riff on Tony Montana that Vince was somehow utterly clueless to. Again, wrestling is packed with gimmicks that have been ripped off from film characters or real life, I don't see anything about Razor Ramon that means it's a particularly bad gimmick, no more than 'Magnum' Scott Hall. Heck, half of the Razor Ramon look and mannerisms came from his previous gimmicks rather than Scarface, he rocked the waistcoat in the AWA, did the greasy black hair, stubble and toothpick in WCW as the Diamond Studd, scarface added a terrible accent, gold chains and a few vignettes.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Apr 14, 2013 13:54:57 GMT -5
Anyone could of got Doink over. He's a Wrestling Clown kids are going to love that stuff regardless of who is under the paint The love is for Evil Doink. The one who scared children.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 14, 2013 14:01:52 GMT -5
They're not dumb. Wrestling is theatrical and OTT by nature.
I'm talking more about the lightning and thunder arena effects, not the urn, which itself was an aptly creepy part of a creepy character
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