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If you want to make it in pro wrestling, you’ve got to have a gimmick…
In fact, your level of career success can depend greatly on your gimmick.
If you’re lucky enough to be Mark Callaway, you get to become The Undertaker, being presented to fans around the world as the ultimate badass for 20+ years.
However, if you’re Fred ‘Shockmaster’ Ottman, they simply squeeze you into an effeminate fur coat, give you a Star Wars helmet covered in glitter and get Ole Anderson to do his cookie monster impersonation whenever you’re supposed to be talking.
Then, you’re pretty much boned.
Whether you’re Perry Saturn being told that you’re about to embark on a televised love affair with a mop, Shawn Stasiak getting the nod to play an underwear model, or Chris Kanyon being packaged as a Mortal Kombat character, a bad gimmick is a bad gimmick.
If you want to make it in pro wrestling, you’ve got to have a gimmick…
In fact, your level of career success can depend greatly on your gimmick.
If you’re lucky enough to be Mark Callaway, you get to become The Undertaker, being presented to fans around the world as the ultimate badass for 20+ years.
However, if you’re Fred ‘Shockmaster’ Ottman, they simply squeeze you into an effeminate fur coat, give you a Star Wars helmet covered in glitter and get Ole Anderson to do his cookie monster impersonation whenever you’re supposed to be talking.
Then, you’re pretty much boned.
Whether you’re Perry Saturn being told that you’re about to embark on a televised love affair with a mop, Shawn Stasiak getting the nod to play an underwear model, or Chris Kanyon being packaged as a Mortal Kombat character, a bad gimmick is a bad gimmick.
- 11/3/2014
- by Chris Quicksilver
- Obsessed with Film
As Fcw is rebranded as Nxt who will be the breakout stars that make it big in WWE?
If like us you’ve been enjoying watching Nxt (formerly Florida Championship Wrestling) more than the WWE main roster’s TV show’s – Raw and Smackdown – then you’ll probably be wondering which stars are going to be getting that main roster call up and when, and just how successful they will be during their time in the spotlight.
Nxt the TV show has created stars in Daniel Bryan, Wade Barrett and Aj Lee but it has also been the undoing of some established talents such as Low Ki. What fate awaits the current roster remains to be seen, but here’s our pick of the crop for who we expect to see on Raw/Smackdown and just how successful they will be.
6. Bray Wyatt
Remember Waylan Mercy? Well, Bray Wyatt is...
If like us you’ve been enjoying watching Nxt (formerly Florida Championship Wrestling) more than the WWE main roster’s TV show’s – Raw and Smackdown – then you’ll probably be wondering which stars are going to be getting that main roster call up and when, and just how successful they will be during their time in the spotlight.
Nxt the TV show has created stars in Daniel Bryan, Wade Barrett and Aj Lee but it has also been the undoing of some established talents such as Low Ki. What fate awaits the current roster remains to be seen, but here’s our pick of the crop for who we expect to see on Raw/Smackdown and just how successful they will be.
6. Bray Wyatt
Remember Waylan Mercy? Well, Bray Wyatt is...
- 9/24/2012
- by Matt Aspin
- Obsessed with Film
47 year old Former WWF Tag Team Champion Mark Canterbury (aka Henry O. Godwin) has been hospitalised and is in intensive care after a car crash yesterday (Tuesday). The incident happened in Lindside, West Virginia and although details are vague, it has been reported that Cantebury’s car came off a cliff, puncturing two of his lungs and leaving him with thirteen broken ribs and also a broken leg.
He was since flown to an intensive care unit but there is no further update on his current condition.
Canterbury, who wrestled with Dennis Knight (then Tex Slazenger) for WCW in the early 90′s under the name Shanghai Pierce, is best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation. He joined the company in mid-1994 and went by the ring name Henry Orpheus Godwin and at the time of outlandish wrestlers like Doink The Clown and Papa Shango, was given the...
He was since flown to an intensive care unit but there is no further update on his current condition.
Canterbury, who wrestled with Dennis Knight (then Tex Slazenger) for WCW in the early 90′s under the name Shanghai Pierce, is best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation. He joined the company in mid-1994 and went by the ring name Henry Orpheus Godwin and at the time of outlandish wrestlers like Doink The Clown and Papa Shango, was given the...
- 11/9/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
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