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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 7:28:27 GMT -5
Look at Bray Wyatt, does he have a jacked up physique? No It's just a matter of finding a gimmick that works for the wrestler. But did Bray Wyatt pass the physical? Yes. Can Steen? Probably not if his knees are as bad as he says they are.
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Post by Jordan on Feb 17, 2014 8:48:49 GMT -5
Look at Bray Wyatt, does he have a jacked up physique? No It's just a matter of finding a gimmick that works for the wrestler. *cough* Third generation superstar *cough*
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Post by TGTD 2.0 on Feb 17, 2014 10:22:01 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of Steen but I don't ever see him making to WWE. He would've been awesome in WWF during the Attitude Era though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 15:53:35 GMT -5
He is an awesome wrestler and I would love to see him in the WWE. Also, not to be mean, but the title is a bit misleading, I thought it would be a rumor he was joining WWE or something. Sorry, I honestly didn't mean for it to be misleading. I just thought it was the best title.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 15:56:58 GMT -5
He is an awesome wrestler and I would love to see him in the WWE. Also, not to be mean, but the title is a bit misleading, I thought it would be a rumor he was joining WWE or something. Sorry, I honestly didn't mean for it to be misleading. I just thought it was the best title. No need to apologize, its all good.
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Post by The Natural Eddy Valintino on Feb 17, 2014 15:59:04 GMT -5
Unless he dropped like 20-25 pounds, I doubt he would even pass the physical, let alone get a contract. I heard he and Michael Elgin were invited for a tryout. I honestly think if Kevin Steen were to go to a bigger company, I would see him be a better signing for TNA than WWE.
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Post by atm. on Feb 17, 2014 16:45:57 GMT -5
I read this awhile ago. It's not mine, but I really liked the idea of bring Steen into wwe this way , by the way it is a long read
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To date, there are no rumours that World Champion Kevin Steen will be the next big ROH name to jump to WWE the way that El Generico or Shelton Benjamin (or Daniel Bryan, the Kings of Wrestling, CM Punk, etc) have. In fact, many might say “Have you looked at Steen? He doesn’t really look the type that WWE would sign.” And I would agree whole-heartedly with you. Not to put too fine a point on it, he’s a little overweight, unkempt, wrestles in a T-shirt, etc, etc. So, yeah, definitely not the kind of muscle-bound, Adonis-type that normally shows up and is pushed in WWE.
(Let me preface all of this by saying that I am a Kevin Steen fan. He’s a cool bad-ass that is able to cut a wicked promo. He’s a modern-day “Stone Cold” Steve Austin (but you know, not having to make everyone else on-screen look weak during his once every other year appearance and without a history of violence towards his wife) or “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. As I may have stated in my “Year End Awards” Steen is what the Miz should have been and could have been before he got buried by the Rock and John Cena at Wrestlemania XVII.)
But a couple of days ago, I got thinking about what might happen if Kevin Steen was signed by WWE. And it occurred to me that maybe Steen’s non-WWE look would work for him, if he was booked right. They have this Paige in NXT who’s being referred to as “The Anti-Diva” (which I would suggest was a better gimmick for the departed but perhaps returning Kharma) and perhaps Steen could be “The anti-WWE Superstar” (although it occurs to me that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, but you get what I mean).
Have Steen’s character be the guy that wanted to come to WWE, but was rejected because he didn’t have the proper look.
At first, I thought that would be how Steen was introduced, cutting a promo about how bitter he was about his treatment by WWE. But then, in the television studio that operates inside my head, I saw something else.
It’s a typical Raw. Jerry Lawler and Michael Cole are talking about Randy Orton taking on CM Punk later in the show, with the winner getting a shot at the WWE Championship. Meanwhile, Dolph Ziggler and Big E. Langston have just defeated the Prime Time Players (let PTP be the faces, if jobbers-to-the-stars here) and have vacated the ring.
However, before Raw cuts to commercial, an unknown figure leaps the barricade, grabs a microphone and hits the ring. Cole and Lawler don’t say much, other than to feign ignorance about what’s going on until the camera gets a good look at Steen, standing in the middle of the ring.
Cole: Wait a minute, King, is that…?
But by then Steen has started to talk.
Steen: Listen up, WWE Universe, I’ve come here to open your eyes to the truth…I’ve waited a long time to be able to say this. You see, I…
And just like that, Raw cuts to commercial.
When the break ends, the ring is empty and we switch to Lawler and Cole at the announce table.
Cole: We’re back on Raw here, ladies and gentleman…and just before we went to commercial break, a bizarre incident transpired.
Lawler: Yeah… this was one of the strangest things we’ve seen in the WWE in a long time.
Cole: What we believed was a fan leapt over the barricade, grabbed a microphone and began shouting about wanting to open the WWE Universe’s eyes to the truth, in his words. And it got more bizarre from there. Watch what happened during the break.
Video: Steen’s mic is cut. He reacts to that, demanding he be allowed to talk. Then, Security rushes the ring. Steen pushes one or two away, but the numbers game is too much for him and it gets worse as he is maced before being carried out of the ring and the arena.
Cole: King, what shocked me the most is the fact that many here in WWE, and indeed many sports entertainment fans recognize the man as former Ring of Honor World Champion Kevin Steen. (They let Matt Hardy and CM Punk refer to Ring of Honor in the past and seriously put over the organization on Punk’s DVD, so they can mention it here.)
Lawler: Yes, Kevin Steen. A lot of people who follow wrestling and follow sports entertainment know of Kevin Steen. As you said, Michael, he’s a former Ring of Honor Champion, he’s appeared in many regional promotions but what is he doing here in WWE?
Cole: That’s something we’ll endeavour to find out but for tonight, he has been forcibly evicted from the building.
Over the next few of weeks, Steen appears in the crowd on Raw, Smackdown and pay-per-view events. When the cameras find him, he yells “I Will Not Be Silenced” which he turns into a sign (and eventually will become his first WWE T-shirt). After the main event of a major pay-per-view, he leaps the fence to attack WWE Champion John Cena and challenger Dolph Ziggler.
The next night on Raw, Cena comes out and wants to address the situation. To everyone’s surprise, Ziggler comes down to the ring and says he knows Steen is in the building somewhere and he wants some answers, too.
After a few moments of suspense, Steen comes to ringside and is handed a microphone. He begins his promo at ringside but through the course of it, climbs over the barricade and into the ring.
Steen: You know, John, for all people say about you…you’ve done me a great favour, finally giving me the opportunity and I almost feel sorry for all of this. But you see John, its people like you, people like Dolph, like the Rock, like Randy Orton, like Alberto Del Rio, Chris Jericho and hell, the entire Divas Division, that people like me hate.
You see, you got where you are because of the way you look. You have the great abs, the nice hair, the beautiful face, the toned body…and it makes me sick ”Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful!” B*** S***! People like me have every right to hate people like you. because it’s easy for you, you get everything handed to you…money, fame, celebrity, friends, movie deals, and in this case, a big fat honkin’ WWE contract. Everybody wants to be like John Cena, because he’s got the looks that opens doors.
And then you’ve got people like me, who has the look that gets doors slammed in their faces. People who don’t have the right look. People who don’t fit the right profile for WWE. Oh yeah, I can admit it, I’m jobbing in the battle of bulge. I don’t look like leading man material. The women don’t flock when they see me in a clubs. Hell, I look more like the drunk at the end of the bar.
And because of that, no matter what I accomplished in other promotions, no matter how much time and effort I put into becoming the best wrestler in the world, becoming the best promo guy in the business, WWE didn’t have the time of day for me. See, the WWE is just like every other form of entertainment, hell, it’s just like life. It’s all about looks. You look good, the world is full of opportunities. You don’t have the right look, and suddenly you find that opportunities are rather limited.
So, I’m sorry about all of this John…and sorry to you too Dolph…but I will not be silenced. I will not be silenced while I watch “sports entertainers” with half my ability be handed opportunities on a silver platter because of the way they look…and I will not be silenced while I have doors slammed in my face because of the way I look.
I will not be silenced!
And with that, Steen takes the microphone and slams it into the side of John Cena’s head and follows it up by doing the same to a charging Dolph Ziggler. He beats both men down and then, as security rushes down the aisle, he escapes the ring and over the barricade.
And so, just like that, WWE’s next great anti-hero, Kevin Steen, is introduced to the WWE Universe.
To me, this works on a number of levels. There are going to be people who hate Steen because he’s going to be booked as a heel (sorta…and we’ll get to that in a minute) and there are going to be people who hate Steen because he attacked John Cena…and there will be people who love Steen because he attacked John Cena.
And there are going to be people who don’t know what to make of Steen, because he’ll be an island on to himself, attacking heels and faces alike, because they have the looks he doesn’t and because he feels they got opportunities he didn’t have. He won’t take his frustrations out physically on the Divas, but he will interrupt a Divas match or two and intimidate them into fleeing the ring before cutting another promo, similar to the one above.
(He could also talk about how WWE signed a sculpted bodybuilder like Lex Luger and almost put the World title on him but Dusty Rhodes, from the opposite end of the spectrum, was dressed up in polka dots and humiliated. And if they wanted to expand the angle a bit, bring in Bray Wyatt to talk about how he was dubbed “Husky Harris” and sent down to NXT where, despite his best efforts to get over, the WWE acted like they had forgotten about him. Steen could either take him under his wing, or attack him, saying he’s doing this alone. I think the former works better.)
I also think Steen could become a cult-like hero because there will be people who can identify with what he is saying. Certainly there are viewers who will have seen opportunities given to people because of the way they look and denied to others because of the way they look. Again, it may not be a sentiment that’s popular to say out loud, but one that fans will back Steen for saying. In fact, there may be such a groundswell of support that Steen, with his crusade, may have to be fully turned to a face. (I wonder if Chris Masters could be re-hired as an arrogant heel that epitomizes all that Steen is talking about.)
Let me finish off by saying that I hope WWE never hires Steen. I hope that Steen remains with ROH for many years to come. I understand that WWE is the goal for just about every pro wrestler in the business, but it’s not that I don’t want Steen to succeed, it’s that I want Ring of Honor to succeed and I believe that Steen is such a strong character, especially as a heel and in the role that he’s in. Plus, I think that WWE would misuse Steen the way they have so many other signed superstars, everyone from the Sheepherders to Dusty Rhodes to Bryan Danielson.
However, this was just my two cents about how the WWE could correctly use him.
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Post by June on Feb 17, 2014 17:08:34 GMT -5
Given his ring experience, I can see him being a valued asset to the ring crew.
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