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Post by sungod2020 on Nov 30, 2020 11:20:04 GMT -5
What’s with the Shawn was a bad baby face take? Before Lothario showed up, I thought he was very over with the crowd, especially in 95 when he climbing up the card. I don't think he was a bad babyface at all, but I think what people were referring to was him paired with Jose Lothario was forced since he wasn't that type of face. Michaels was not about tradition and values that can only be learned in wrestling school(that was Bret Hart's role). He was about all natural talent. He certainly didn't need a mentor to humanize him. Before that, he did just fine as a face with an edge. Also appealed to the teenage girls. I believe the fans were slightly turning against him towards the end of his first WWF title run. That coupled with his "lost my smile" speech is when his face turn started to fail.
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Post by nisidhe on Nov 30, 2020 12:47:00 GMT -5
They should have just made up the trainer gimmick, found an old school guy with a little personality and paired him with Shawn. Pre-internet boom it could have worked better than Shawn and Jose. Anyone would have been a better choice, even Coach John Tolos. Captain Lou would have been my pick given his personality and him being able to get over as a face. As a kid I always thought Sherri's song lyrics were "Captain Lou" rather than "he's got the moves" on the 1992-1993 Shawn theme. It wouldn't have worked with any old rando manager/trainer. They wanted - nay, _needed_ to a) build Shawn up as a Serious Contender(tm) and b) to equalize or diminish the myth around Bret's stature. To do that, they needed to bring in someone who could be presented as a mentor seen on a level akin to Stu (not bloody happening short of Fritz Von Erich, who actually had worked for Stu at one point), but probably still obscure enough (if the story of Jose training Michaels proved false) to make it plausible, if a little mysterious. Michaels had had no prior managers (apart from Sherri, who was in WCW at the time), and nobody who could be presented as a "mentor." Jose was probably the best of a bad lot if the aim was to build up Shawn without fans asking too many questions.
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