Reed Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I hear after going through four divorces and nearly being bankrupted by alimony, Ric Flair has actually come out as a strong opponent of straight marriage. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 it's like writing into the Weekly World News to complain that there really wasn't a Bat Boy. I don't want to live in a world where I can't believe in the Bat Boy. We don't have to believe we can know that the Batboy is real, he posts here sometimes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I was watching the little mini Goldust doc they put on between shows on WWE Network, and it made me think about how much of a 180 it is for him to have gone from "Son of a working-class Texan" to "movie-obsessed androgynous dude who uses people's homophobia against them to win matches" in terms of gimmicks. I wondered what y'all thought some of the weirdest gimmick shifts that wrestlers got when going from one company to another are. Are there any that you think are even stranger than Dustin Rhodes/Goldust? I thought of maybe saying Doink the Clown was even stranger, but Big Josh is also a weird cartoonish character, though going from "proud lumberjack" to "evil clown" definitely qualifies on at least an honorable mention list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w. josh Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Well, Mike Shaw going from Makhan Singh to Norman the Lunatic to Friar Ferguson to Bastion Booger is a pretty wild series of shifts. Johnny B. Badd to "Wildman" Marc Mero, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARMDRAGON Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Barry Darsow going from Krusher to Smash to Repo to the Bully to Hole in One was all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How about Dan Spivey? Ending his career as Waylon Mercy is certainly a big shift from the US Express, Varsity Club, and Skyscrapers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Spivey's partner had an even more dramatic shift. Mean Mark Callous to Deadman Undertaker to Biker Undertaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Barry Darsow going from Krusher to Smash to Repo to the Bully to Hole in One was all over the place.Add to the beginning Crusher Darsow, Hillbilly guy who became a traitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How about Dan Spivey? Ending his career as Waylon Mercy is certainly a big shift from the US Express, Varsity Club, and Skyscrapers. You make like Starship Eagle never happened! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I wondered what y'all thought some of the weirdest gimmick shifts that wrestlers got when going from one company to another are. Bloodthirsty asskickers to headlicking morons. Hulk Hogan's brother to male stripper to barber to butcher to literally having no gimmick as being your gimmick to psychotic idiot to Hulkamania spy to dancing idiot to biker guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How bout going from The Great and Powerful Oz to Lounge Lizard Vinnie Vegas To Keep on Trucking Diesel to finally just Kevin Nash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go2Sleep Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Shane Helms going from boy band member to superhero was pretty dramatic. For staying in one company, Glen Jacobs went from dentist to Kevin Nash impersonator to Undertaker's brother who is varying levels of deformed/handicapped/evil (to be fair, he has ridden that one for a while). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Blue Sam Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 There's a lot of answers that end with "to fat man who dances". We've got Brodus ("from angry Del Rio bodyguard"), Tensai ("from faux Japanese warrior"), Rikishi ("from mute masked Arab stereotype") and PN News ("from big angry Cannonball Grizzly") off the top if my head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 To be fair, Tensai was a dancing fat man in the past and PN News went back to Cannonball Grizzly amongst other names after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How bout going from The Great and Powerful Oz to Lounge Lizard Vinnie Vegas To Keep on Trucking Diesel to finally just Kevin Nash. Kevin Nash's career progression is one of steadily dressing more and more normally, and talking more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanBeard Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 White meat babyface to Guy Imitating Chicken was quite the paradigm shift. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StretchMediatedHypertrophy Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Nova says eat it; he invented the wacky gimmick change: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Kevin Nash is on Twitter being REALLY pissed at Roddy Piper for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 It's fucking pitiful. A 54 year old fighting with a 60 year old on Twitter. Harley Race is rolling in his bed. Embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Kevin Nash is on Twitter being REALLY pissed at Roddy Piper for some reason. Didn't they have a fight backstage when they were in WCW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 How bout going from The Great and Powerful Oz to Lounge Lizard Vinnie Vegas To Keep on Trucking Diesel to finally just Kevin Nash. Kevin Nash's career progression is one of steadily dressing more and more normally, and talking more and more. And, until WCW closed, getting paid more and more money in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 There's a lot of answers that end with "to fat man who dances". We've got Brodus ("from angry Del Rio bodyguard"), Tensai ("from faux Japanese warrior"), Rikishi ("from mute masked Arab stereotype") and PN News ("from big angry Cannonball Grizzly") off the top if my head That One Man Gang guy probably qualifies too. JIVE SOUL BRO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 About gimmick shifts: Sammy Zayn. From "Mexican" to "not nearly as Mexican." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domino_Not_Deuce Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Hey everybody, let's think about how good Finlay vs. Luke Harper would be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I am not going to moving the post (at least not now since I am only reading the board because I am eating) but yeah - the speculation over who should or should not be in the WWE Hall of Fame should be contain in the thread that is amazingly enough called "WWE Hall of Fame" Morelock gets a Worldwide point for the Antichristo post And y'all need to thank Smelly McUgly for saving this month's thread And in terms of gimmick shifts - Leo Kruger to Adam Rose is fairly wacky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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