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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Nov 14, 2013 2:51:12 GMT -5
The Devil's Advocate gimmick was something that sounded great on paper but just didn't work in real life.
Plus like others said that guy was loose cannon who has issues with keeping himself out of trouble.
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Post by rybackrulez on Nov 14, 2013 2:59:21 GMT -5
Because his devil's advocate character only worked in vignettes. Once he got to the ring, he was plain old generic hoss Sean O'Haire. And compared to other Bug guys they had like billy gunn, brock, a-train, goldberg, and batista. Also the guy was bland as hell and dangerous and sloppy
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Post by Snowman on Nov 14, 2013 3:05:06 GMT -5
Too much booze?
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Post by Gummydavidson on Nov 14, 2013 6:04:15 GMT -5
He was handled pretty well until he lost to Mr America, after that he was just used as a jobber to the stars.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2013 13:58:25 GMT -5
Why exactly did Sean O'Haire flop? He was being pushed into the Mr. America feud and aligned with Roddy Piper, but just two months later, he was back to squashing jobbers on Velocity. Putting him in that Mr. America/Piper feud was a curse, and even back then it felt like a curse. Let him progress naturally into the limelight, not get clumsily tacked onto something Roddy Piper was doing....
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Nov 14, 2013 14:07:54 GMT -5
Yeah and he was nuttier than squirrel shit so WWE was wary to really get behind him once they figured it out This and this, plus he was pretty slow and plodding by the time he got out of WWE developmental in 2003, a far cry from his fast paced, high impact style of WCW's dying days. Pretty much. O'Haire was exciting as hell in WCW, if very green. 2003 O'Haire was a very different prospect.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Nov 14, 2013 14:41:11 GMT -5
Even if they didn't have him cut promos on Raw or Smackdown, they probably had him cut them on house shows and off camera. You can tell how someone will perform without showing the audience how they will perform. It's just a different skill set. Being able to read a script in multiple takes until you get one that sounds really good is not the same as being able to perform live in front of an audience. You can be good at one and not the other. It was also reported between each take he would take a shot of whiskey to calm his nerves... you can't do that live either.
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