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Post by pinja on Dec 9, 2022 15:43:23 GMT -5
Jake Hager went from Jake Hager to Jake Hager with a hat.
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Post by cassonova on Dec 9, 2022 16:13:07 GMT -5
Jake Hager went from Jake Hager to Jake Hager with a hat. That's character progression... |
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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Dec 9, 2022 16:15:23 GMT -5
Konnan from Space Superhero to street tough/ambiguous gangbanger.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 9, 2022 16:30:16 GMT -5
Johnny Polo was basically the exact polar opposite of the original Raven character. I remember watching WrestleMania X with my friends in the late 1990s. I told them that Johnny Polo was Raven and NO ONE believed me. This despite its not like he wore a mask or something. They were pretty obviously the same guy physically. As you said just polar opposite characters. |
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Post by Venti on Dec 9, 2022 18:17:17 GMT -5
How about going from a tough cowboy, to being just a rebellious "bad ass" outlaw guy, to then being a man utterly obsessed with asses, to being a gay but-not-actually-gay guy? In the span of like six years, at that?
Talking about Mr. Ass himself, Billy Gunn of course.
The crazy part to me, is that he wasn't even really a different character throughout all these gimmicks. He was canonically the same dude the whole time.
Also, this is probably the most times the word "ass" has ever shown up in one of my posts.
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Urethra Franklin
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 10, 2022 1:24:43 GMT -5
Jake Hager went from Jake Hager to Jake Hager with a hat. Wait, that’s the same Jake Hager?! |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Dec 10, 2022 1:28:27 GMT -5
White meat "aw shucks" babyface to psychopath. Bob Backlund to Mr. Bob Backlund.
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 10, 2022 16:30:45 GMT -5
Chuck Palumbo
From flamboyant, stereotypical "gay" wrestler to Italian mob member
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Post by Deputy Muscle on Dec 10, 2022 17:12:54 GMT -5
Jake Hager went from Jake Hager to Jake Hager with a hat. He really likes that hat |
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Dec 10, 2022 19:13:26 GMT -5
Chuck Palumbo From flamboyant, stereotypical "gay" wrestler to Italian mob member Then one of the many 'midlife crisis' bikers. |
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Post by fortknox on Dec 10, 2022 21:20:05 GMT -5
White meat "aw shucks" babyface to psychopath. Bob Backlund to Mr. Bob Backlund. That also describes early 90s Scott Steiner to Big Poppa Pump. |
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Post by fortknox on Dec 10, 2022 21:34:40 GMT -5
Brian Adams. Member of Demolition to Kona Crush to face painted heel Crush to jailbird Crush to leader of a biker gang Crush. Then goes to WCW under his real name and becomes member #143 of the NWO, then is in a for hire tag team with Bryan Clark that may or may not smoke weed.
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Post by dangerousdanpotato on Dec 10, 2022 22:04:04 GMT -5
"Mr. Magnificent" Kevin Kelly and Nailz.   |
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Dec 10, 2022 22:47:07 GMT -5
Johnny Polo was basically the exact polar opposite of the original Raven character. That was the whole point of the character, wasn't it? Even in ECW he was a rich kid who lost his mind and wanted to take out frustrations from being a failson I don’t think he was supposed to be a rich kid in ECW. With him being billed from The Bowery, I think the idea was he was from an expected broken home in the slums. It wasn’t until WCW with the “coming home” storyline, where they decided to say, “actually, he comes from a perfectly stable wealthy family, and he was making up all the stuff about abuse and growing up in a poor broken home.” |
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Dec 10, 2022 23:54:57 GMT -5
Mike Shaw? From wrestler (Mike Shaw/Makhan Singh) to mental patient (Norman the Lunatic) to religious figure (Friar Ferguson) to disgusting joke (Bastion Booger). You forgot his trucker gimmick that came in between The Lunatic and Friar Fergeson. Voodoo witch doctor to Pimp is pretty extreme Papa Shango --> Kama Mustafa --> The Godfather. Quite the interesting changes Charles Wright went through throughout his career. That's not all of it: Papa Shango to Kama, The Supreme Fighting Machine to Kama Mustafa of The Nation Of Domination to The Godfather to The Goodfather in Right To Censor and then back to The Godfather. |
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CMWaters
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 11, 2022 0:15:04 GMT -5
Leo Krueger v1 who was a rich foreigner to Leo Krueger v2 who was basically Kraven the Hunter but not as skilled to Adam Rose the Party Animal to Adam Rose the Party Pooper.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Dec 11, 2022 9:15:59 GMT -5
That was the whole point of the character, wasn't it? Even in ECW he was a rich kid who lost his mind and wanted to take out frustrations from being a failson I don’t think he was supposed to be a rich kid in ECW. With him being billed from The Bowery, I think the idea was he was from an expected broken home in the slums. It wasn’t until WCW with the “coming home” storyline, where they decided to say, “actually, he comes from a perfectly stable wealthy family, and he was making up all the stuff about abuse and growing up in a poor broken home.” The genesis of the Dreamer/Raven feud was them having a childhood rivalry at a sleep away camp. When Raven debuted they referenced Johnny Polo. The "Bowery" billing was a wink and a nod to rich kids poverty cosplaying in NYC. |
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Post by sungod2020 on Dec 11, 2022 11:44:29 GMT -5
Johnny Polo was basically the exact polar opposite of the original Raven character. I remember watching WrestleMania X with my friends in the late 1990s. I told them that Johnny Poll was Raven and NO ONE believed me. This despite its not like he wore a mask or something. They were pretty obviously the same guy physically. As you said just polar opposite characters. I'll admit, when I first saw Raven, Johnny Polo wasn't a thought in my mind. It was only when I found out he played Johnny Polo before did I connect the dots. I'm sure I wasn't the only person to think that. That was how dramatic the character change was. |
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 11, 2022 12:29:47 GMT -5
I don’t think he was supposed to be a rich kid in ECW. With him being billed from The Bowery, I think the idea was he was from an expected broken home in the slums. It wasn’t until WCW with the “coming home” storyline, where they decided to say, “actually, he comes from a perfectly stable wealthy family, and he was making up all the stuff about abuse and growing up in a poor broken home.” The genesis of the Dreamer/Raven feud was them having a childhood rivalry at a sleep away camp. When Raven debuted they referenced Johnny Polo. The "Bowery" billing was a wink and a nod to rich kids poverty cosplaying in NYC. For those who haven’t it seen it, it was a fairly drawn out debut. For weeks Stevie Richards was bragging that he was going to bring Johnny Polo to ECW. Joey Styles and others kind of played it off that Richards was full of crap. Then one week Scott Levy comes out in the middle of a Stevie Richards segment in full Raven character and Joey Styles is shocked. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 11, 2022 12:35:02 GMT -5
Name the wrestler! Christmas monster >> tall man? >> evil dentist >> fake trucker >> demonic fire survivor >> misunderstood mute >> tormented, non-demon regular guy >> local man >> corporate upper management Psychotic Mayor... What an unrealistic new gen gimmick |
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