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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 23:44:05 GMT -5
I guess the primary example is Bruce Prichard becoming Brother Love and Reo Rogers, but you also have Dave Kapoor becoming Ranjin Singh and Chris DeJoseph becoming....uh....greased up fat stripper.
Any other examples of this?
It's a big call isn't it? Putting a non performer on screen in a featured role. Singh stuck around a while but he was wooden as hell.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Mar 8, 2018 23:46:48 GMT -5
Ralphus.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 23:47:27 GMT -5
Good call. Memorable no doubt but totally awful as a performer. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 8, 2018 23:53:02 GMT -5
I guess the primary example is Bruce Prichard becoming Brother Love and Reopen Rogers, but you also have Dave Kapoor becoming Ranjin Singh and Chris DeJoseph becoming....uh....greased up fat stripper. Any other examples of this? It's a big call isn't it? Putting a non performer on screen in a featured role. Singh stuck around a while but he was wooden as hell. Reopen Rogers was the reboot. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 23:56:12 GMT -5
I guess the primary example is Bruce Prichard becoming Brother Love and Reopen Rogers, but you also have Dave Kapoor becoming Ranjin Singh and Chris DeJoseph becoming....uh....greased up fat stripper. Any other examples of this? It's a big call isn't it? Putting a non performer on screen in a featured role. Singh stuck around a while but he was wooden as hell. Reopen Rogers was the reboot. Lousy autocorrect. Spent so long fixing Rogers I didn't see Reo! |
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Post by Zenengage on Mar 9, 2018 0:10:53 GMT -5
Vince Russo?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 0:30:55 GMT -5
Another good call. A world champion no less. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Mar 9, 2018 0:50:43 GMT -5
Eric Bischoff.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 1:38:14 GMT -5
Maybe Harvey Wippleman? (wasn't he like the WWE backstage gofer guy?)
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Post by Joe Neglia on Mar 9, 2018 1:47:45 GMT -5
Ed Ferrara (though it should be noted he originally started as an indy worker briefly) Dixie Carter Linda McMahon (can't count the rest of the family - Vince started as an on-air announcer, Shane started a ref and Steph started as a performer all before starting real backstage duties) Maybe Harvey Wippleman? (wasn't he like the WWE backstage gofer guy?) No, he was a manager from the Memphis territory when he started with WWF as a manager; the backstage thing didn't come until later for him. |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 9, 2018 3:41:09 GMT -5
Russo said in an interview when he got hired by wcw that he was only gonna be a writer and nothing more. Wish he kept that promise, those promos were awful. Dixie Carter started as a money mark who lost millions of dollars, became a tv character, then lost several more millions. |
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Post by TGM on Mar 9, 2018 5:05:37 GMT -5
Zeb Colter? Granted he was a performer before, but wasn't he a producer or road agent before coming back to manager Swagger?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 5:40:04 GMT -5
Zeb Colter? Granted he was a performer before, but wasn't he a producer or road agent before coming back to manager Swagger? I thought he was picked purely for Uncle Zeb? |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Mar 9, 2018 6:00:44 GMT -5
Zeb Colter? Granted he was a performer before, but wasn't he a producer or road agent before coming back to manager Swagger? I thought he was picked purely for Uncle Zeb? Yeah he was Uncle Zeb with Justin Hawk Bradshaw. I don't think he was ever involved in creative in the wwe. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 6:57:48 GMT -5
Was Bisch an announcer first or "coffee gopher for Verne Gagne"? |
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Post by celticjobber on Mar 9, 2018 7:38:36 GMT -5
Terri Runnels started out as a makeup artist before becoming a manager in WCW.
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Post by Honeybear Lyder on Mar 9, 2018 8:57:58 GMT -5
Mickey Whipwreck
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 9:00:55 GMT -5
Terri Runnels started out as a makeup artist before becoming a manager in WCW. Didn't know that. Wasn't he a trainee they had setting up the ring as part of paying his dues? |
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Post by Aceorton on Mar 9, 2018 9:58:04 GMT -5
I will make the (potentially flimsy) case that Howard Finkel should be on this list. As iconic as it was, his ring announcing was barely a "performance," more a procedural duty, and he was a huge part of the backstage operation. I don't think anyone envisioned him becoming a part of skits and dumb mini-angles.
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Post by Honeybear Lyder on Mar 9, 2018 10:23:45 GMT -5
Wasn't he a trainee they had setting up the ring as part of paying his dues?[/quote] He started out as a member of the ring crew, got into training later. |
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