Silly Storyline Ideas You Had For Classic Eras

[thecrusherwi]

Every fan has thought about some silly fantasy booking ideas. I want to hear those.

One idea I had was for someone to join the NWO, but when they enter for their first match with the group, the NWO B-theme plays, so they get all offended and immediately leave the group.

I also think there is so much more they could do with the Money in the Bank. I’ve never understood why the champion wasn’t more paranoid about the MITB holder. Why don’t they mess with the briefcase holder? But I always thought it would be fun if the MITB holder just straight up misplaced the briefcase. They have chances to cash in but keeps losing it so they can’t.

What are some of your ideas?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Sometimes I randomly think about this goofy idea from a thread asking what if Dean Douglas kept the IC title for longer. I’ll quote the relevant part of the post here:

For the Bushwhackers idea, they didn’t really do triple matches at the time, but I could see them doing some goofy stuff with it. I really liked the campy stuff WWF did in the 1990s so while I’m sure it would be regarded as Wrestlecrap, I’d enjoy it.

Like they could have Douglas take on Luke and Butch individually. Luke and Butch each cost each other the matches in goofy ways. Like Luke has Douglas beat, but Butch calls to him to do their famous strut, preemptively celebrating the victory. Then Douglas blindsides Luke and gets the win. This builds up to Luke vs. Butch with Douglas as the special referee. But the two are still buds so in a non-match they end up chasing Douglas out of the ring. Then to cap things off Luke and Butch face Douglas in a handicap match where the IC title is at stake. Douglas taps into his ECW side and decisively beats both Bushwhackers which builds Douglas up and helps him transition into a more serious side for his next IC title feud.

[Celexa Bliss 54]

Evil Doink vs. Undertaker

Doink plays mind games with The Undertaker, who actually sells it like Doink is getting to him. Paul Bearer eventually reveals that The Undertaker has a crippling fear of clowns. Doink takes advantage of this, terrorizing The Undertaker at every turn, including one angle where about twelve Doinks come out of a casket and surround The Undertaker. Taker tries to fight them, but is overcome. Eventually, Taker musters up the courage to challenge Doink to a match, where he overcomes his fear and defeats the clown once and for all, driving him out of the WWF.

This was a WrestleMania X storyline for a fantasy booking I did once, booking from the end of Mania IX until Mania X.

[wildojinx]

This worked better back when wrestlers had only one finishing move, but here's a match idea I had. Basically, a match has the stipulation where you can only use your finisher once in a match. If you hit the finisher but fail to defeat your opponent, you cant use that move again. Could lead to some interesting strategy where wrestlers have to decide to try and finish their opponent immediately, or "save" the finisher until they're sure they can beat them.

[Celexa Bliss 54]

Just remembered another one. This is something I wanted to do in an ewr game. I was going to eventually reveal that The Undertaker and Dr. Isaac Yankem were biological brothers. Reason I didn't actually do it was because Yankem never got over enough, and Undertaker's morale dropped so low I had to release him.

In that same game, I booked Jerry Lawler against Ron Simmons, with Lawler claiming to have been a football prodigy, complete with him doing the Mr. Perfect touchdown gimmick. Then he feuded with Mark Henry after claiming to have a 400 pound bench press.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Evil Doink the Clown kidnapping various wrestlers (jobbers he'd face on Raw) and brainwashing them to be part of his evil circus troupe, who become a new stable that terrorizes the WWF for a bit.

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

May 17, 2024 21:34:02 GMT -5 Celexa Bliss 54 said:

Evil Doink vs. Undertaker

Doink plays mind games with The Undertaker, who actually sells it like Doink is getting to him. Paul Bearer eventually reveals that The Undertaker has a crippling fear of clowns. Doink takes advantage of this, terrorizing The Undertaker at every turn, including one angle where about twelve Doinks come out of a casket and surround The Undertaker. Taker tries to fight them, but is overcome. Eventually, Taker musters up the courage to challenge Doink to a match, where he overcomes his fear and defeats the clown once and for all, driving him out of the WWF.

This was a WrestleMania X storyline for a fantasy booking I did once, booking from the end of Mania IX until Mania X.

Oh man the idea of a casket match clown car full of Doinks is great. Hide them all under the ring and every time Taker opens the casket to try and win another one pops out of it laughing.

[James Fabiano]

May 17, 2024 23:51:20 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

Evil Doink the Clown kidnapping various wrestlers (jobbers he'd face on Raw) and brainwashing them to be part of his evil circus troupe, who become a new stable that terrorizes the WWF for a bit.

So much Doink in this thread, I like it.

He honestly did the split personality thing better than Bray Wyatt, so I'd be down for a Doink Family or Doink 6 stable.

[karl100589]

If he stuck around longer I would've had The Patriot as a prototype Kurt Angle. The All-American hero oblivious to how condescending his shtick is. I'd even go as far as to give him a small program with Austin as the Corporate approved challenger.

[Porky's Butthole]

I had an idea back when Vince was threatening to kill WWE with poison and all that. Basically, Cole(or whomever was doing the backstage interviews) would approach biker Taker and ask him about it. And his response would lead to the Deadman gimmick returning:

Cole (or whomever) "Undertaker, I'm sure by now you've heard Vince say he's going to kill WWE; kill his creation. What are your thoughts?"

Taker:"....can't kill what's already dead."

This would lead to nWo attacking him and putting him out for a while. He'd return at WM against Scott Hall as the old school, grey gloved, Bearer-managed Undertaker.

[OGBoardPoster2005]

Ric Flair and Kane feud. Kane beats Flair in the blowoff and puts on Flair's suit thus absorbing his powers.

[Mozenrath]

May 17, 2024 20:01:00 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Sometimes I randomly think about this goofy idea from a thread asking what if Dean Douglas kept the IC title for longer. I’ll quote the relevant part of the post here:

For the Bushwhackers idea, they didn’t really do triple matches at the time, but I could see them doing some goofy stuff with it. I really liked the campy stuff WWF did in the 1990s so while I’m sure it would be regarded as Wrestlecrap, I’d enjoy it.

Like they could have Douglas take on Luke and Butch individually. Luke and Butch each cost each other the matches in goofy ways. Like Luke has Douglas beat, but Butch calls to him to do their famous strut, preemptively celebrating the victory. Then Douglas blindsides Luke and gets the win. This builds up to Luke vs. Butch with Douglas as the special referee. But the two are still buds so in a non-match they end up chasing Douglas out of the ring. Then to cap things off Luke and Butch face Douglas in a handicap match where the IC title is at stake. Douglas taps into his ECW side and decisively beats both Bushwhackers which builds Douglas up and helps him transition into a more serious side for his next IC title feud.

I am more or less thinking of if they did a Boiler Room Brawl-style match where a face fought Dean in a makeshift classroom backstage, with props like chalkboard erasers to smack each other with, desks to be slammed on, etc, and the goal was to escape to get back to the ring.

Call it something like the Class Dismissed match, or School's Out Forever.

[tafkaga]

May 17, 2024 19:41:42 GMT -5 thecrusherwi said:

Every fan has thought about some silly fantasy booking ideas. I want to hear those.

One idea I had was for someone to join the NWO, but when they enter for their first match with the group, the NWO B-theme plays, so they get all offended and immediately leave the group.

I also think there is so much more they could do with the Money in the Bank. I’ve never understood why the champion wasn’t more paranoid about the MITB holder. Why don’t they mess with the briefcase holder? But I always thought it would be fun if the MITB holder just straight up misplaced the briefcase. They have chances to cash in but keeps losing it so they can’t.

What are some of your ideas?

That gives me a fun idea for how to get rid of MitB if I was the booker, because I hate it.  I would have the World champions just randomly attack the guy on every show just to keep him weak, so he can never cash it in.  Finally he throws the briefcase in the ocean or something just to get them to stop attacking him.  

[tafkaga]

There was a lot of potential for evil Doink. I came up with an idea once where babyface Doink returns in '97 against heel Mankind in what everyone presumes will be a squash, but Mankind seems reluctant to wrestle him. Meanwhile, Doink is just laughing at Mankind and being an obnoxious clown, as the commentators say that Doink has gotten in way over his head. Then, Mankind just leaves and they start to speculate that he's scared of clowns. In the weeks to come, Doink keeps showing up wherevever Mankind happens to be, until finally we realize it's much deeper than a fear of clowns. Mankind and Doink actually knew each other from years ago when they were both part of the same carnival. We start to see that Doink has got some kind of sinister hold on Mankind due to their dark history, as the heel Doink of old starts to come back out and Mankind becomes an increasingly sympathetic character.