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I'm wondering, Chuck Palumbo's memorable gimmicks from the past 20 years was Billy's partner and muscle for the FBI. His more infamous gimmicks included being The New Total Package:

Or the not American Badass

With those two, should they have made him a cosplay wrestler? Like everyone now and then he'd do someone else's character and entrance?
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
I'm wondering, Chuck Palumbo's memorable gimmicks from the past 20 years was Billy's partner and muscle for the FBI. His more infamous gimmicks included being The New Total Package:
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Chuck just didn't have Luger's physique to make that work. He had a good physique but not on the tier of Luger
 
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Chuck just didn't have Luger's physique to make that work. He had a good physique but not on the tier of Luger
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Yeah I did say it was infamous but mainly because of The New Blood storyline. But looking back, it was kinda funny. If anything, Sean O'Haire, Johnny the Bull and Mark Jindrak had better physiques. Speaking of Jindrak, WWE did give him this gimmick which was similar to Luger:
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
Yeah I did say it was infamous but mainly because of The New Blood storyline. But looking back, it was kinda funny. If anything, Sean O'Haire, Johnny the Bull and Mark Jindrak had better physiques. Speaking of Jindrak, WWE did give him this gimmick which was similar to Luger:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vBu77oNY7EU
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Johnny the Bull was insanely strong, too

Jindrak was originally supposed to be in evolution but got replaced by Batista. He got replaced because he and Orton were good friends and would cause a lot of issues on the road and HHH thought having both of them together would be bad. Jindrak said that when they were backstage and traveling, HHH would wanna talk wrestling (like plan out matches and stuff), while he and Orton would just wanna talk parties and girls lol. So HHH didn't think he was taking it seriously enough and that he was a bad influence on Randy Orton, which got him booted from Evolution before it really began. In hindsight, it was probably the right decision
 
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Johnny the Bull was insanely strong, too
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pbIr02SoD2E
Jindrak was originally supposed to be in evolution but got replaced by Batista. He got replaced because he and Orton were good friends and would cause a lot of issues on the road and HHH thought having both of them together would be bad. Jindrak said that when they were backstage and traveling, HHH would wanna talk wrestling (like plan out matches and stuff), while he and Orton would just wanna talk parties and girls lol. So HHH didn't think he was taking it seriously enough and that he was a bad influence on Randy Orton, which got him booted from Evolution before it really began. In hindsight, it was probably the right decision
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seems like he thrived in CMLL so I guess it worked out in the long run for Jindrak too
 
Would said:
hehehe, that's far more creative than what most people whining posted.

Also:
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Hell's favorite minions made the Animal eat a clean pin.
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1. Good

2. Kane's bigboot sucked

3. Taker has the 2nd best legdrop in the biziz, Brother. Look at that form.
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
Johnny the Bull was insanely strong, too
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pbIr02SoD2E
Jindrak was originally supposed to be in evolution but got replaced by Batista. He got replaced because he and Orton were good friends and would cause a lot of issues on the road and HHH thought having both of them together would be bad. Jindrak said that when they were backstage and traveling, HHH would wanna talk wrestling (like plan out matches and stuff), while he and Orton would just wanna talk parties and girls lol. So HHH didn't think he was taking it seriously enough and that he was a bad influence on Randy Orton, which got him booted from Evolution before it really began. In hindsight, it was probably the right decision
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Speaking of form, that was a fuckin perfect press slam. Just getting 'Kish up was impressive enough, but then he stables himself and hoists the fat bastard to almost a full extension. Even the crowd said "woah" lol
 
Magic Sun Daddy said:
Brian Last had a decent point, that The Hurt Syndicate get a genuine buzz because they feel divorced from the obnoxious meta bullshit featuring Moxley and The Bucks. It's as simple as it gets: MVP is a manager, he wants to manage Swerve (who is a former world champion, so it makes perfect sense why he'd be scouted), Swerve refuses, MVP takes offense and decides to make an example out of him. Done. It's not Shakespeare, but newcomers can immediately understand what's happening without the announcers having to make constant references to decades old matches they'd never seen or heard of.
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It also helps that MVP, Lashley and Shelton Benjamin actually look like people that you don't want to fuck with.
Would said:
Whether Jindrak would've gone as far as Dave boils down to Jindrak's promo ability.
Batista had the cool look down pat, but his promos were nothing special.
If Jindrak can work a mic and not talk about cooze in front of Triple Nose, he would've made it.
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Now that you bring it up, I don't ever remember Jindrak getting mic time, even when he got a pseudo push when he turned on Angle and Luther Reigns.

I think he had a PPV match with Reigns, then disappeared.
 
Hijo de D. Woodchucks Jr. said:
Now that you bring it up, I don't ever remember Jindrak getting mic time, even when he got a pseudo push when he turned on Angle and Luther Reigns.
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I don't recall Jindrak getting any promo time in WCW either. There was an introduction promo with him and O'Hare in WCW Worldwide, but other than that, pretty barren. Had the look, worked well enough with the Natural Born Thrillers, but just another "what if" guy.
 
I remember jokes about Jindrak after his Narcissist wannabe gimmick and after turning face post Mania they would have him bodyslam Akebono and he becomes another Made In The USA. By the way, speaking of which, Yokozuna before he was Yokozuna on WWE
 
Ratings for the latest Wednesday Night War.

NXT: 619k, P18-49 0.17
Dynamite: 523k, P18-49 0.16

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Makes sense to me, you have guys like Bron and Trick who are good but not ready to take the mantle of being the world champion yet, plus people aren't fatigued with Cody yet like what happened with Roman in his last year as Champ
 
Bullet Club said:
Ratings for the latest Wednesday Night War.

NXT: 619k, P18-49 0.17
Dynamite: 523k, P18-49 0.16

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I think it's really important not to downplay the significance of this because it highlight both how far AEW has fallen and how well WWE is doing right now.

Four years ago, AEW trounced NXT so hard, NXT had to switch nights. NXT just beat AEW when AEW was on its regular night and NXT wasn't. WWE fans went out of their way to watch NXT on a different night, AEW fans don't do the same when Dynamite is on a different night. On November 9th 2022, two years ago, AEW did 930.000 viewers. It is dire. They're not going anywhere because Tony is rich and they have a good TV deal, but they are clearly, objectively bleeding off fans at an alarming rate, and many of the ones who stick around aren't as loyal as they once were.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
I'm wondering, Chuck Palumbo's memorable gimmicks from the past 20 years was Billy's partner and muscle for the FBI. His more infamous gimmicks included being The New Total Package:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FEipy690cHk
Or the not American Badass
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kdK4vaeLBIQ
With those two, should they have made him a cosplay wrestler? Like everyone now and then he'd do someone else's character and entrance?
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Chuck is criminally underrated. I didn't appreciate him when I first saw him, but after watching him again, damn, he was good.
 
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