J.H. Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 See, I wanted a tag team that spoofed Siskel & Ebert. They basically sit at ringside and watch tag team matches and give them a Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down. Their finisher... THE MULTIPLEX! James 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 1 hour ago, odessasteps said: I always wanted to do a JC knockoff character that carries a cricket bat, I don’t know if there ever were any British heels in the territory era that did that, The WWF thing to do is to give that gimmick to SD Jones, say he won some fictional Cricket tournament in the Caribbean and became a world champion cricket player, and THEN bring in some other wrestler from another part of the world to feud with him over who is the world's best player. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted June 4 Share Posted June 4 46 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said: The WWF thing to do is to give that gimmick to SD Jones, say he won some fictional Cricket tournament in the Caribbean and became a world champion cricket player, and THEN bring in some other wrestler from another part of the world to feud with him over who is the world's best player. Man, WWF being responsible for an American cricket Renaissance would've been something! James 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Would have been a good heel gimmick for Gama Singh in Calgary too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 9 hours ago, Mister TV said: How was there not someone with a tennis gimmick and "Grand Slam" finisher in early/mid-90's WWF? Bitterness over US Open pre-emption could have made this (a) politically difficult with USA or (b) deeply weird and entertaining, especially if his tag partner was a dog trainer. (Apologies if my 90s memories are wrong and the USO *didn't* pre-empt Raw like the dog show did) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Cliff Hanger said: Bitterness over US Open pre-emption could have made this (a) politically difficult with USA or (b) deeply weird and entertaining, especially if his tag partner was a dog trainer. (Apologies if my 90s memories are wrong and the USO *didn't* pre-empt Raw like the dog show did) The US Open used to pre-empt Prime Time Wrestling and later, Raw. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister TV Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 6 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said: The US Open used to pre-empt Prime Time Wrestling and later, Raw. Yep, that’s why the first Nitro was unopposed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Jora Johl played NCAA Cricket for the University of Iowa. As far as no Cricket gimmicks in WoS-era Britwres... well, firstly, that type of "I have another job besides wrestling" gimmick wasn't really something that happened. Like Les Kellett actually was a farmer, but he wasn't doing a Farmer gimmick, he was just a wrestler who owned a farm. Plenty of wrestlers had worked down the mines, none of them ever came to the ring with a miner's helmet and pick. That type of gimmick is a Sport's Entertainment thing. And regarding Cricket, you have to bear in mind that before it was superseded by Football, Cricket was our national sport. And was always bigger than wrestling, but it's very much a middle- and upper-class sport. Anyone showing up in Wrestling doing an "I'm a cricketer" gimmick, the people would know if they had ever played professionally or not. And doing a Kayfabe-exposing gimmick like claiming to play a sport you haven't played would have been a big no-no. Like WWE had a former pro Footballer (Stuart Tomlinson) under developmental contract for a while, and the people who supported the teams he'd played for all knew "Oh, that old goalie's a wrestler now". Even though the highest tier of football he'd played in was the old Third Division (It's called League One now, but the Premier League and Championship are above it). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Didn’t Grant Holt ended doing some wrestling with the Knight’s promotion? And there’s the one (charity?) match does by Jimmy Greaves. I talked to Kevin Day about that on the podcast, last time he was on, after Adrian Street passed away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 16 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: The gimmick didnt even give Ted enough money to keep him from committing fraud and fleecing congregations Wait no that was the son right? At least the first part? It was Ted Sr and Ted Jr. Brett stole from the state welfare fund to buy drugs. Mike is in the clear. He was eitehr still in the fed pen when this all happened or had just gotten out. Still pissed we never got Brett to sign a MS food stamp card. He was booked the weekend after he turned himself in for a MS fed's big 2 day show. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 (edited) I suppose mulling over a jai alai gimmick is next on the itinerary. (We already have a Lacrosse, after all) Edited June 5 by Curt McGirt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I mean, I bet doing a lariat with a cesta would look pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Hitting somebody with the ball would be straight up evil; see: that scene from Jackass 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Only sports gimmicks down this way Dale Springs-The Man under par,retiring after this weekend. LC Mox-Football jock gimmick. Mostly works DFW area. Wild Thing-Started off cause he looked a bit like Sheen in Major League. And now he just comes out to Wild Thing in baseball pants and a custom baseball jersey. Mostly works LA for Pro Wrestling 225. My idea of repacking a local guy as ""the best at cornhole" in the gulf states wasn't used. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Maybe a hipster gimmick with a guy playing frolf/disc golf? James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Somebody has to have done a "soccer player who massively oversells every contact" character already. Feels like a real Chikara undercard kinda thing. I don't know enough about pickleball to know what a pickleball gimmick would look like. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 10 minutes ago, Zimbra said: I don't know enough about pickleball to know what a pickleball gimmick would look like. They'd be in a five year feud with the tennis player over who gets to use the court (or the ring) on Saturday mornings 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Just now, Cliff Hanger said: They'd be in a five year feud with the tennis player over who gets to use the court (or the ring) on Saturday mornings Dude this is a heaaaaaavy subject of controversy in my hometown right now: one of our parks has this super nice clay court, but it turns out the city never actually did any of the required maintenance on it and there was just a random retiree who lived on the edge of the grounds and did it for free just because he loved tennis/the park/the town/whatever. Anyway, this guy unfortunately dies, and instead of assigning a parks & rec person to do the maintenance (or replacing the clay with a regular or grass court) they just put a padlock on the gate and stopped taking calls about it - so now the pickleball guys and the tennis guys have formed a classic "can they get along?" uneasy alliance tag team to get it opened back up knowing damn well that once it is, they're going to be fighting over it constantly. Small towns, man. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 A clay muni tennis court is bonkers, I've never seen a public court that wasn't busted-ass concrete. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 Faction of hippies that hacky-sack before and after matches 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouHaveUntil5 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 The one indie I work for almost had a stable of D&D players that would get crushed every time they went out. They were going to roll 20-sided dice to see what move they’d do next. It probably would have stopped being funny after the first time they did it, but that one time would have gotten a great reaction. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 19 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: Faction of hippies that hacky-sack before and after matches Vince Russo had hippie Van Hammer and hippie Mike Awesome on the WCW roster at the same time and totally blew it. M.I.A. would have been much better as a group of Funyun-eating stoners. Someone should have paid me half a mil to run creative in 1999/2000 WCW. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 They also had Buzzkill, which was one of those things that was baffling even for Russo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I sort of get it; Russo probably gives himself at least some creative credit for getting one Armstrong brother over and figured he could get another one over. The problem is that only Road Dogg had charisma. A sort of weird charisma because everything about that character is off-putting and sleazy, but charisma nonetheless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 18 minutes ago, Zimbra said: They also had Buzzkill, which was one of those things that was baffling even for Russo. For all Russo has done in wrestling, both good and truly awful, one thing I will never forgive him for is replacing BA's kick ass "Skinemax soundtrack music as interpreted by Yngwie Malmsteen" theme with that crappy New Age Outlaws-ripoff https://youtu.be/aQ3KG4rmgNo?si=cMSbk7If8-ZTIcad 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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