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Post by héad.casé on Dec 21, 2018 16:05:55 GMT -5
We’re missing the biggest news from this - there’s an Isaac Yankem action figure...
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Post by Venti on Dec 21, 2018 17:02:38 GMT -5
I just love how instead of trashing his old gimmicks, like literally every other wrestler probably would do, he simply stated they weren't meant to be. Looked at them with a very positive attitude. And he made a pun! What's not to love about this guy
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 17:06:29 GMT -5
Isaac Yankem's theme makes my teeth hurt when I listen to it. f*** that "song"!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 21, 2018 17:12:13 GMT -5
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Post by Macho Pichu on Dec 21, 2018 17:42:54 GMT -5
I'm still waiting on Kevin Nash to be Fake Luke Gallows and bring it all full circle.
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Post by bitteroldman on Dec 22, 2018 5:48:45 GMT -5
Gotta disagree with the idea that a dentist character can't get over or is doomed from the get-go. Give him a chloroform rag as his finisher, and a large pair of pliers for the post-match attack where he pulls a tooth from his unconscious opponent (blood optional but would really sell it). Add in an attractive valet (nurse) as a distraction and the person who holds the chloroformed rag.
Maybe this wouldn't work in the WWF but in the NWA or Continental I feel this would get over.
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Post by msc on Dec 22, 2018 6:24:55 GMT -5
To be honest, I think his match with Bret Hart kept him on roster post-Yankem. And the Fake Diesel gimmick was doomed but he did it well. He was right into that thing, compare it to the bored Fake Razor. Fun in that Rumble, hangs with Owen and Bulldog in the title match few weeks before.
Basically, the gimmicks sucked, but the wrestler playing them clearly had something.
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Post by Hurbster on Dec 22, 2018 8:39:07 GMT -5
Should have been called Jimmy the Teeth.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Dec 22, 2018 9:21:56 GMT -5
I think it's disgraceful that no enterprising WWE writer has actually tried to make Issac Yankem and Fake Diesel work within Kane's already convoluted history, or explain why Undertaker never noticed his brother was running around pretending to be Kevin Nash.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 22, 2018 9:45:00 GMT -5
Source: 1-2-360 Podcast with Sean Waltman Kane and X Pac reunited! Child me is marking out. Did he finally put on the green and black DX Kane outfit?!?
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Post by Ryushinku on Dec 22, 2018 11:32:32 GMT -5
The resultant lawsuit ended with Vince getting the right of first refusal for WCW if it ever went for sale. Ah....did not know that. Retracted. Yeah, it's pretty nuts. Thanks to the WWF doing that, purely to prove they had the gimmicks and that WCW trying to imply Diesel and Razor Ramon were wrestling for them was trademark infringement, they had eventual first dibs and took them. If WCW had just called Nash & Hall by their real names from the moment they turned up in WCW, and maybe told Hall to knock off the Razor accent, there wouldn't have been a case against them.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Dec 22, 2018 11:40:17 GMT -5
I honestly believe that a lot of the goofier New Generation characters would be crazy over today, especially on the indies, in front of a modern more snarky and self-aware audience.
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Post by fw91 on Dec 22, 2018 12:34:59 GMT -5
No explanation needed Glen
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 22, 2018 12:50:18 GMT -5
Doubt anyone could've made a wrestling dentist gimmick work. This. The I. Yankem evil dentist started because Vince overheard Bobby Heenan telling a joke backstage. Apparently you have to be very careful when joking with Vince.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 22, 2018 13:28:57 GMT -5
I honestly believe that a lot of the goofier New Generation characters would be crazy over today, especially on the indies, in front of a modern more snarky and self-aware audience. I could see them in CHIKARA... and not just because CHIKARA has used some of them >_> But I think it depends on how the indy the are in operates.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 22, 2018 13:29:43 GMT -5
Doubt anyone could've made a wrestling dentist gimmick work. This. The I. Yankem evil dentist started because Vince overheard Bobby Heenan telling a joke backstage. Apparently you have to be very careful when joking with Vince. Never tell jokes in front of the Writing/booking team... cause you end up with Issaac Yankem and David Arquette.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Dec 22, 2018 13:45:55 GMT -5
This. The I. Yankem evil dentist started because Vince overheard Bobby Heenan telling a joke backstage. Apparently you have to be very careful when joking with Vince. Never tell jokes in front of the Writing/booking team... cause you end up with Issaac Yankem and David Arquette. Another thing that was never supposed to be on tv and was only supposed to be a joke? Bastion Booger. Also Reo Rodgers was only a parody of Dusty Prichard did backstage that Vince found hilarious.
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