Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 19, 2017 1:53:07 GMT -5
I think he's one of the few guys who were supposed to get pushed as a monster heel, but once they saw how horrible he was they cancelled the original plan.
When you're too shit to be a hoss, the question isn't "where have you been", it's "why are you here".
Well let's examine Brodus Clay since the beginning of his career in wrestling.
He was apparently hired while bouncing in a bar by a drunken Tommy Dreamer. The guy was just big and had no type of pro wrestling training.
He was sent down to Deep South Wrestling, a developmental so bad it was apparently used by guys that were not good enough to even be considered for OVW. According to Al Snow, the Gymini twins (the pair of walking penis in tna) were so bad that Jim Cornette demoted them to DSW.
In DSW the training was so bad that according to Simon Dean, John Laurinaitis actually apologized to the trainees while closing the company and moving everyone to either ovw or fcw. Brodus was sent down to fcw.
FCW at the beginning was a terrible developmental, Cornette called it a penal colony, because everybody was getting DUIs down there, apparently they barely ran shows so everybody had a lot of free time. Again Brodus didn't received the best training.
Originally he was supposed to be a hoss but he was so bad they paired him with Alberto del Rio as a bodyguard, but according to Ricardo Rodriguez in his shoot interview, Clay never improved and he was separated from Del Rio after failing to catch him while Alberto failed from a ladder during a match. Clay dissapeared from Alberto's side and his dissapearnce was never mentioned on tv.
I think the dancing comedy gimmick was given to him because it was impossible to ruin, his entrance was longer than his matches and Naomi with Cameron also served as distraction to hide his weaknesses.
The problem was that if you take away the gimmick and the dancing there's nothing to the guy, he really can't do anything in the ring. The last nail in the coffin for him was in tna when they had him sell for Jeremy f***ing Borash.