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Fentry posted:Ed Leslie gimmicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7OPKZLrOTs
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Benne posted:The Sandman went from a surfer gimmick who carried a literal surfboard around (in fact that's why his name was "Sandman" in the first place) to the drunken chainsmoking Philly brawler that we all remember today. okay i did not know that at all, thats fuckin hilarious. im looking up pics he looks like dollar store surfer sting that rocks
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shiksa posted:jncos and crop tops is kind of the thing rn, i think they could pull it off Ruby and Britt would haul them into wrestler's court for gimmick infringement. shiksa posted:okay i did not know that at all, thats fuckin hilarious. im looking up pics he looks like dollar store surfer sting that rocks ECW had many cases of this. Taz going from a barefoot crazy man who didn't talk to a kinda-MMA shooter badass who did is one example, and Balls Mahoney had a gentle simpleton gimmick in SMW. CombineThresher fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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When I lived in Cincinnati in the early 2000s OVW was televised and you'd see all sorts of weird gimmick changes when the wrestlers would "graduate" to WWE. The funniest was Russian MMA badass Boris Alexiev becoming Italian goofball Santino Marella.
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Roddy Piper: That's Toooooony Atlas! That's Tony Atlas, what are you even doing, you look like a fool
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FCW-era "rear end in a top hat wearing a suit" Roman Reigns
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CombineThresher posted:
was... was his name still "balls mahoney" at the time as well speaking of ecw gimmick evolutions, they never really strayed *too* far on the basics but the early dudley stuff is so weird and kind of bad its incredible that Bubba and d-von ended up being one of the hottest acts on earth for a bit
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Venomous posted:apparently Orange Cassidy used to be Fire Ant, and if so, he went from being one of the greatest high flying wrestlers in the US to a goddamn sloth, and it rules That was kind of the point, he actually wrestled on the same card as both characters several times, and few people caught on because the styles are so different.
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shiksa posted:was... was his name still "balls mahoney" at the time as well wow, can't believe this sign guy dudley slander
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DeathChicken posted:Roddy Piper: That's Toooooony Atlas! That's Tony Atlas, what are you even doing, you look like a fool Given that Atlas vanished from TV after that I wonder if Piper did him a favor or ruined his career.
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shiksa posted:was... was his name still "balls mahoney" at the time as well No, it was Boo Bradley, a take off of the character from To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley.
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Rusty Shackelford posted:No, it was Boo Bradley, a take off of the character from To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley. that checks out, yeah
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it's hard to think of a guy who got luckier than Glenn Jacobs his first gimmick was an all time loving stinker at the end of Cornball Era of wrestling, then he gets wrapped up in being Fake Diesel, a complete joke, and then finally lands as Kane and has a 20 year career with a lot of legit highlights as a 'big man', which is pretty hard to do well and sustain in wrestling
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At least Fake Diesel was kind of ironically fun, he committed to the Nash impression and even did his moves decent enough. Poor Rick Bognar was doomed because he looked absolutely nothing like Scott Hall.
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I would say Jacobs looks nothing like Nash too, tbh. It's really weird how haphazard the whole thing was, a naked 'NO NO THIS IS STILL OUR IP' grab. A darker pro wrestling world would be one where they actually got over, and that you could just flat recast gimmicks. We'd probably be on Hulk Hogan VI, Vince having even less incentive to ever innovate or try anything new.
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bartok posted:When I lived in Cincinnati in the early 2000s OVW was televised and you'd see all sorts of weird gimmick changes when the wrestlers would "graduate" to WWE. The funniest was Russian MMA badass Boris Alexiev becoming Italian goofball Santino Marella. https://youtu.be/wZMrOV22rRc?si=cSVtY_7HzutwWfdA I totally forgot about this gimmick, loving 
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NameHurtBrain posted:I would say Jacobs looks nothing like Nash too, tbh. It's really weird how haphazard the whole thing was, a naked 'NO NO THIS IS STILL OUR IP' grab. Didn't help that the whole angle was just a way to push heel JR, who the fans didn't want to boo anyway. It was all dreadful TV even if you put aside the more malicious motivations.
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NameHurtBrain posted:I would say Jacobs looks nothing like Nash too, tbh. It's really weird how haphazard the whole thing was, a naked 'NO NO THIS IS STILL OUR IP' grab. Honestly, wrestling would be so much better if Roman Reigns = The Undertaker Cody Rhodes = Hulk Hogan Seth Rollins = Macho Man Brock Lesnar = Ultimate Warrior Dominic Mysterio = Sting LA Knight is still LA Knight
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Mexico does the same thing a lot. Except in Mexico masks are involved so it's far less jarring.
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