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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jul 30, 2020 9:51:38 GMT -5
I liked the Vinnie Vegas character. The fact that he was supposed to be Vince McMahon as that gimmick too is probably what made Vince love Nash so much when he saw him.
"Hey there pal, you remind me of someone, but I can't put my finger on it," Vince McMahon. Ha ha ha
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Post by LA Times on Jul 30, 2020 9:53:57 GMT -5
I liked the Vinnie Vegas character. The fact that he was supposed to be Vince McMahon as that gimmick too is probably what made Vince love Nash so much when he saw him. "Hey there pal, you remind me of someone, but I can't put my finger on it," Vince McMahon. Ha ha ha I thought the Vinnie Vegas character was just a gambling man |
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Post by Fighter Hayabusa on Jul 30, 2020 11:00:45 GMT -5
I get what he’s saying. You’re trying to humanize him by giving him a backstory but that story sucks. Nash was a guy who got to play college ball because he was tall and wasn’t skilled enough to make it a career. That doesn’t elevate his character. Be like prior to beating Sheik they did a piece on Hogan saying his real name is Terry and he was a failed musician before becoming a wrestler.
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Post by jason1980s on Jul 30, 2020 19:24:51 GMT -5
If his real story isn't good enough why not just make it up. With it being pre big boom era of the internet whose really going to find out if a sports writer exposed the story? A magazine like SI will probably help keep kayfabe and I can really only see a small time newspaper writer trying to break the story just to be noticed but it probably wouldn't do them much good. News stations would probably want to be on good side with WWF and keep the story alive.
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Post by TheXtremisT on Aug 3, 2020 5:03:44 GMT -5
The following is something that Bruce Prichard said about him in the latest podcast. I got this from wrestlezone... “Diesel was a heel and we made him, we took Diesel away from him, JR starts calling him ‘Kevin.’ I don’t know who the  Kevin is. I don’t care who Kevin is. I cared about my guy Diesel and when we humanized him, I think at that moment, Diesel lost all of his momentum when we made him champion the first time as a babyface and tried to present him as a legitimate athlete with legitimate credentials. Who gives a ? Nobody gives a . They want to be entertained, they want characters and there are people that want the legitimacy well then go to something legitimate. If you want story and entertainment then that’s what we’re trying to give and when it got to be a departure from what we had been doing. I think that’s where we lost them. I think that’s where it just became, ‘I don’t want Kevin from Tennessee. I want Diesel. I want the badass.’ “We took him from being a larger than life character and made him the guy next door that goes to college and plays basketball. Wasn’t good enough to go pro. Didn’t play for a major university, and I’m not knocking anybody that plays college athletics in any way shape or form because that’s a different level than, ‘Hey, by God, I made the high school football team or the basketball team.’ Helluva athlete, but if I wanted to watch a mediocre basketball player, you can watch that all day long somewhere. If I want a larger than life, kick ass in’ Diesel, that’s my guy. Not the guy that in’ went in a dorm in east Tennessee. I just hated it, I in’ hated it.” I've disagreed with Bruce on a lot of things he said, but he is spot on here isn't he? This is EXACTLY what I feel they've done to Drew McIntyre right now after his WWE title win. Absolutely none of the intensity and fire we saw from him in 2018/2019 that got fans behind him. Bland, humanized, boring.... This is the repeated type of shiz WWE does and then Vince thinks "this guy isn't as over with the crowd as we expected, let's cut his push". And then we see more of the Orton/Cena/Triple H as champ type stuff..... You reach for the brass ring, then they lift it higher. |
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