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Post by Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan on Dec 2, 2013 22:04:56 GMT -5
Triple H gets fired as COO and becomes a fulltime wrestler again. He's pissed he's not in power anymore but he still feels he can go in the ring like he did 10 years ago. Turns out he can't. He struggles beating midcarders and loses cleanly to every main eventer lined up against him.
From here, things can go 1 of 2 ways:
1) H resorts to comedic levels of cheating to win nearly every match.
2) Triple H has a crisis of conscience and realizes he can't just ride on his past reputation. He then works harder than he ever as in the ring to be 'The Game' of old and along the way tries to make amends with the locker room for his past transgressions.
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Post by SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids on Dec 3, 2013 15:10:09 GMT -5
Heath Slater, Regular Guy
Since they insist on employing this guy, maybe they should try another regular guy approach.
Give 3MB an opening segment from commercial. After rocking out for while, Slater cuts a huge promo about being "the most rock'n'roll" superstar in the WWE. He blames The Authority on keeping him and the band down, but every good rock band sticks it to authority, and 3MB are no different. They are going to rock out in the ring as protest until HHH grants them a legitimate title shot from whomever are the champs at the time. (This would work better if the champs were heels, like The Shield.) Out comes Vicky or Maddox to dismissively say that HHH couldn't be bothered by low-level guys, so he left the decision about a title shot up to either one. Either one says that they don't want to waste time escorting them out of the ring, so "challenge accepted". In comes the heel champs. The champs cut a promo saying this is beneath them, but they are booked to defend the belts any time a WWE Official tells them to do so. They even allow for the match to be a handicap match, just to prove how ridiculous 3MB are. The heel team beats 3MB so badly that even the crowd get behind them. They brutalize McIntyre, giving him a "concussion". Mahal gets randomly injured as well, but not before he tags in Slater. Slater is feeling it, but, in typical buffoon fashion, gets annihilated. The heel team hits their finisher at least three times, leaving Slater a pile of goo in the ring. As the heels leave and retain the belts relatively cleanly, they do a rocket-snot/ foot-wipe mockery on Slater. They kick him around and laugh derisively, so hard they almost don't make it backstage. On the WWE App, they cut a post-match promo calling Slater and 3MB a big joke, and that they were given that gimmick as a rib years ago, but they were too dumb and uncreative to so "no" to it. Cut to McIntyre and Mahal walking alongside a stretchered Slater back to the dressing room...hopefully to a smattering of applause.
Next week, Slater is upright, disappointed and ailing, but not undaunted. He and the band are walking around backstage. They're going up to the heels as if nothing happened, joking and high-fiving. The other heels are cool with them to their faces, but clown them when they walk away. They go up to the faces, who are nice to them, but just feel sorry for them. Cut to the "lockerroom leader", John Cena. John pulls Slater aside to have a "talk" with him.
After a break, Slater is watching the same RAW Recap, watching the heel team beat him and 3MB down AND LAUGH ABOUT IT. Slater, disconsulate, is sitting by himself while 3MB come in walking, talking, and rocking. Mahal tells him to stop watching that and start melting faces with him and Mac on the town tonight. Slater looks at them both, and, in an exasperated voice, mumbles "no." Mahal and Mac look incredulous and start in with whats and whys. Slater, angerier, points to the monitor and asks them if they saw what happened last week...you got a concussion, you damn near got your [whatever] broken. Slater the cuts a promo about this isn't funny anymore, and we're a big joke. He says that he got into this business because it was fun, but going nowhere in an awkward nonsensical three man tag team isn't fun anymore. He knew bringing up the idea to them about making an impact, a splash, and going over the top to get noticed with a crazy gimmick was starting to backfire. In fact, he really doesn't like rock music, he's more of a "mud country" fan, like Florida-Georgia Line. He just wants to be a regular wrestler for now, not tied to any gimmicks. They both laugh, implying that he hit his head and temporarily lost his mind, and a win tonight against (random) face tag team will do him good. Reluctantly he goes out. While wrestling the face team, 3MB pulls out all the dirty heel tactics it knows, much to the chagrin of Slater, who clearly doesn't want to be there, let alone take part in it. Unwittingly, Slater gets to pin the face team member after 3MB illegally hits a finishing move Mahal and Mac have been working on together. 3MB gets the win, but Slater sees what's up during the reply, and is disgusted. Slater rejects them, saying that's not how he wants to win, and walks out, leaving them behind.
This same pattern happens for the next couple of weeks until Mahal and Mac confront him in the ring. Finally, 3MB is on a winning streak, and Slater should be happy. He is not. After pushing and shoving, Mahal and Mac hit Slater with the new finsihing move they have been practicing without Slater, and stomp Slater down just as badly as the heel team did a month ago. Slater, again, is stretchered out --this time, it's the rest of 3MB laughing all the way up the ramp.
Slater is off t.v. for a couple of months. Soon, we see vignettes of Slater "back to his roots". Slater debuts a buzz-cut, and plain, subdued speech. We see him surrounded by family and friends, pictures of his youth in a montage a la Cena. He's training with his old boxing and wrestling coaches. He eventually comes back as a no-nonsense guy with plain black tights and that's it. HIs first match back is a draw with Kofi; however, he gets high praise from the announcers who notice an attitude change from Slater, more subtle and business-like in the ring. He and Kofi even shake hands after the match. He even pulls off new moves. As he is walking backstage, he is smiling and glad-handing the faces, but, this time, they are genuinely happy for him. He mentions that he his back, but he is no where near where he needs to be, and, next time he faces Kofi, it won't be a draw. Then, he sees Mahal Mac (who are calling themselves this now) and they threaten him. Slater says there are no hard feelings, and he even needed that final beating. He's not mad at them...they just parted ways. Mac says that isn't good enough, because Slater was the one who recruited him into 3MB in the first place, and Mac warns Slater not to even walk in front of greatness ever again. Slater responds with when he sees greatness, he'll know it, and walks away. Infuriated, Mahal Mac jump Slater from behind, starting a program.
I can't believe I wasted a whole half-hour revamping Slater. I hope you enjoyed the read.
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Post by SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids on Dec 3, 2013 16:08:01 GMT -5
Damn, I just realized I broke Rule Two. O.k., redo...
Same set up as before. Slater continues to "rage against the machine". He and 3MB stage "rock ins" every week until they get noticed. Same as before, with an incredible beat down. Slater, undaunted, continues the fight while the other two start losing hope. Slater vows to protest every presser, every event, every meeting until they are given a legitimate title shot at a PPV.
Eventually, Mahal and McIntyre approach Slater by telling him that this is getting out of hand, and its best if we part ways to form our own band. Slater chastises them by they have to fight the power. Slater continues to protest Titan Towers, engage in sit ins at the corporate head quarters, etc. He morphs into a Bono-type character with a sense of righteousness and a slight God Complex. You see him at benefits and photo-ops with community leaders. You see him protesting deforestation, relating it back to his wrestling career. He engages in a hunger strike until HHH is forced because of public pressure to give Slater a shot at the IC belt. Slater eventually wins cleanly, thus solidifying him as a new face.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Dec 3, 2013 16:13:17 GMT -5
Turn Miz into the official wrestletaint.gov reporter and have him ask about fake newz during interviews. Everyone should have this gimmick. EVERYONE!
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Post by ratetankmark on Dec 3, 2013 16:20:36 GMT -5
Least Favourite: John Cena.
Give him a Bo Dallas style gimmick with his normal personalities but he appears at the houses of people who sign up to forums and do nothing but complain and bitch and cry and whine and then Cena tries to tell them how to be positive in a patronising way.
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Dec 3, 2013 17:05:46 GMT -5
John Cena either beats the Undertaker at Wrestlemania and because a completely delusional asshole who believes his own hype, or John Cena loses to the Undertaker at Wrestlemania and mentally starts to crack. The next night on Raw he comes out and claims that he's done it all, that he's the Man of WWE, and he's giving the opportunity for someone to make a name for themselves by challenging him to a match. Zack Ryder comes out. Ryder says that he and Cena have had their ups and downs, but they've always remained best buds. However, Ryder feels like Cena has either lost his grip on reality (if he beat the Undertaker) or that he's starting to crumble under the pressure of not actually being the best (if he loses to the Undertaker). Ryder says that he respects Cena, and would like to have his chance to become a major name in WWE. Ryder beats Cena with a fluke roll-up pinfall. Cena snaps. He beats the hell out of Ryder with a chair and gives him the Attitude Adjustment through a table. Cena destroys the ringside area, punching Cole out and chasing off JBL and Lawler. Cena either screams the entire time, "I beat the Undertaker! You can't do this to me!" or "I'm a fourteen time world champion! You can't do this to me!" Next week John Cena comes out and cuts a promo where he apologizes to the fans for his behaviour. However, he starts slipping into nonsense catchphrases the longer he talks. CM Punk comes out and tries to talk some reason into Cena. Punk says that while they've had their disagreements, that Cena should focus on what's important--the love and admiration from the WWE universe. As Punk leaves the ring, Cena chopblocks Punk's knee. Cena locks Punk into the STFU and screams about he's the best in the world, that he is WWE, that he is wrestling. Refs and officials come out to break up Cena's hold on CM Punk. Cena stares at his hands in confusion. Next week Cena comes out wearing brand new merchandise: a brightly coloured tye-dye and polka dot t-shirt. He talks about how he's here to save the Cenation from themselves, that he's their superhero saviour, that he is the living embodiment of WWE, and that so long as he's around, fans will never not have anyone to cheer for. He condescends to fans who have been against them since day one, saying that they're just haters who could never accomplish what he has. He then wrestles a match later in the show against a midcard face, say Kofi Kingston using lots and lots of restholds. Fans boo because they're bored, but Cena plays it off like he's in the main event of Wrestlemania. Cena makes Kingston tap, and then starts to attack Kingston like he did Ryder before Punk comes out like a house of fire to clear Cena off of Kingston. Punk swears at Cena as Cena takes a powder, high-fiving fans all the way to the back, laughing maniacally between screams that he is the WWE universe. Boom, you're off to the races, with Cena as a heel somewhere between the dickery of Kurt Angle's 1999-2000 heel run and the psychosis of Bob Backlund's 1994 heel turn. Frankly, this sort of thing is why I dont' want Cena facing Undertaker at Mania. I get that it's a "draw", but he's been booked as the only important, truly important, non nostalgia act the company has. Have him face Taker and it's either, "John Cena did the impossible" and now one of the few draws you have for your big show is gone, OR "I lost and now I can't sleep, I NEED to beat him, I have to" just like with The Rock. It paints them in a corner where they're sacrificing all of their "we need a big pop" draws for Mania to one guy, and when that's done they have exactly one draw left and he's the never-changing face of the company. No one else has heat enough to main event Mania, or is given the credibility to do so. Punk HAD it, but it got sapped, Bryan was working on it, but that's in the past, and...who else? No one. Cena/Taker is the last nostalgia match, and makes sense for Mani, but unless they intend on having Cena break the streak and retire Taker, it's a road that doesn't need to be taken. As for my pick. ADR, just take him the hell out of the title picture, you can even let him become increasingly more desperate since, character wise, the title hunt is all he has, but do not give him title matches. You're not wrong. For me, if I have to keep seeing Cena on TV on a weekly basis, then I want him to be something different, even if he's still hogging the majority of the show. I even thought about Cena losing at Wrestlemania, then facing the Undertaker again on Raw and cheating to win (handful of tights, foot on the ropes). THEN do the bit where Cena comes out and goes so far up his ass with his ego. And then he loses by a fluke and then snaps. Yeah, that means pissing off fans who bought Wrestlemania to see the match to then give them a rematch the next night for free. BUT, that at least protects the Streak. If Cena then destroys 'Taker after the match, that gets 'Taker off of TV until next year. Then let Cena go nuts for six months as the top heel (as a minimum), a completely psychotic, preachy douchebag, and then have someone step up be the conquering hero (Ziggler? Bryan? Langston?) who takes him out for good. Throw in the WWE title somewhere (maybe Cena beats the champion at Extreme Rules) so that Cena-Parallax can drop it to the conquering hero (who probably has to beat Cena clean).
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Post by RedSmile on Dec 3, 2013 18:47:14 GMT -5
Randy Orton is my least favorite wrestler, and I would fire him immediately and let him be ratings, heat, and entertainment poison for Dixie Carter.
However...I would can the entire RAW commentary team, Kevin Dunn, and most of the Divas before that.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 3, 2013 21:06:56 GMT -5
So Alberto Del Rio, after losing his title and reconciling with Ricardo Rodriguez in the city, has realized he is despised by the IWC after Ricardo introduces him to the internet. Del Rio, wanting to win the fans' support as fast as possible with Wrestlemania season coming up decides to plan out a hair-brained scheme to win them over. He sees how so many people talk about Curtis Axel on the forums, so he mistakenly assumes the fans love him. Del Rio feels that if he does something good for Axel, since the fans love him, by association, they will love him. So Del Rio decides to make a plan where he saves Axel's life by setting a trap for him that Del Rio knows about to be able to come just in time. Using Ricardo's hair grease, Del Rio slicks the entrance ramp for Raw, knowing that Curtis Axel will have the first match on the card. He tells Ricardo to go hide under the ring until Curtis Axel come out to shove him out of the way of the grease, and thus the plan is set. Del Rio goes backstage laughing to himself confidently and petting his brand new scarf, as he is then joined by an obnoxiously laughing Curtis Axel, who's been drinking a glass of milk and is snorting it everywhere. Del Rio suddenly turns in shock to see Milky Axel, realizing he didn't anticipate Triple H's obligatory promo to being Raw, and turns to the monitor to see Triple H coming out. He shoves Axel out of the way and runs to the gorilla position, but is too late, as he screams for Ricardo and Triple H slips down the ramp, running into a surprised Ricardo coming out from under the ring, overall making Triple H look like an ass. Del Rio then runs out of panic, as Ricardo tries to rush out with him, but is then tackled by Finlay, thinking Ricardo was responsible, as he an other backstage agents attend to Triple H. As he looks onto the monitor, Del Rio screams "Noooooo!" in agony as employees dog-pile onto Ricardo, but as he wipes a tear, he continues on, throwing crates, boxes, and Curtis Axel in the way to block the hallway. Soon, Del Rio gets to his horse and carriage, and slaps the horse to get him to hurry, as snow begins to fall. Del Rio gallops a safe distance away alongside the road, and then as he catches his breath, he begins to bawl out and cry, as the camera zooms out, showing Del Rio's silhouette looking to the sky and screaming "RICARDO!!!!!". As the fans are leaving Raw after the broadcast, Zack Ryder is cleaning up food and garbage in the seats. When he finishes up and heads back up the ramp, one of his garbage bags breaks open, and as he lets out a moan of disdain and goes to pick up the garbage, he notices something else on the ground under the trash. He grabs it and pulls it out, revealing it to be a brand new black scarf. Ryder looks to the greased up ramp, and silently whispers "Del Rio.....", as he puts the scarf in his pocket and continues on. We need a second installment of this detailing what Ryder does after he finds the scarf. duh. he burns it in a trash can and gets all of Del Rio's powers.
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Post by SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids on Dec 3, 2013 21:17:53 GMT -5
Least Favourite: John Cena. Give him a Bo Dallas style gimmick with his normal personalities but he appears at the houses of people who sign up to forums and do nothing but complain and bitch and cry and whine and then Cena tries to tell them how to be positive in a patronising way. I will gladly play Ian Walter Cremmeans. John Cena can find me in my grandmother's basement, drinking Fresca in the recliner next to my futon, sitting with my laptop, finishing my blog on how Sin Cara and El Torito can be tag champs in a year. I can complain about his work rate and excoriate him on how he will never be as talented as Colt Cabana because he never did any significant time in the indies. He will visit me every week until I change my mind. Until then, he brings me my Hot Pockets as a favor for my grandmother. After all, he is her favorite wrestler...
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Post by The Gambler Fan on Dec 3, 2013 22:32:44 GMT -5
CM Punk becomes CM Hunk. CM Hunk enjoys being single, wearing suits and playing laser tag. He is a serial playboy, using his relative wealth and an array of outrageous strategies to seduce women for sex with no intention of engaging in a relationship.
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Post by SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids on Dec 4, 2013 12:20:59 GMT -5
CM Punk becomes CM Hunk. CM Hunk enjoys being single, wearing suits and playing laser tag. He is a serial playboy, using his relative wealth and an array of outrageous strategies to seduce women for sex with no intention of engaging in a relationship. Other than wearing suits, how is this any different?
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Post by suave on Dec 4, 2013 18:18:08 GMT -5
Sheamus becomes a psychotic asshole. He's kind of like the Sheamus of now, but so much worse. He swears constantly during promos, sexually harasses/beats up the divas, is violent and dangerous in the ring, and drinks obsessively. Like an Irish Scott Steiner.
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Post by Reflecto on Dec 4, 2013 23:21:59 GMT -5
Damn, I just realized I broke Rule Two. O.k., redo... For reference (though I didn't say it for rules, your posts didn't break rule 2. I meant "no blatant repackaging" like a Los Matadores/Fandango-style "You can't take the person off television, then start videos to repackage them as something else" move. Probably should have clarified before.
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Hey-yo.
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Post by RIHT on Dec 4, 2013 23:47:27 GMT -5
Triple H gets fired as COO and becomes a fulltime wrestler again. He's pissed he's not in power anymore but he still feels he can go in the ring like he did 10 years ago. Turns out he can't. He struggles beating midcarders and loses cleanly to every main eventer lined up against him. From here, things can go 1 of 2 ways: 1) H resorts to comedic levels of cheating to win nearly every match. 2) Triple H has a crisis of conscience and realizes he can't just ride on his past reputation. He then works harder than he ever as in the ring to be 'The Game' of old and along the way tries to make amends with the locker room for his past transgressions. For some reason, this gimmick would fit a guy like Chris Jericho better.
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