What happened to gimmicks and cool names?

[Kill Dat Noize]

Last night they were actually announced as 'The team of Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows'

 

[Green Ranger]

Why does EVERYONE need a god damn last name?


Unless the name itself has ring to it and sounds cool, get RID of it or give them something else


Not everyone's full name sounds cool like BROOOOCCCCCCCK LESSSSSSSSSSSSSSNAR!

Well Vince did change Big E Langston to just Big E & did away with Neville & Cesaro first names.
Alot of the names nowadays sound so generic and don't flow

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

Well Vince did change Big E Langston to just Big E & did away with Neville & Cesaro first names.
Alot of the games names nowadays sound so generic and don't flow

Big e Langston works for me, it sounds like an athlete.

Also take a look at the guy. "Big" describes him perfectly.

Guy could be on the cover of all the fitness mags. Could probably crossover into sports apparel too.

 

[Tommy Fits]

Stone Cold Steve Austin killed the gimmick. His "real life" beer drinking, and blue-collar persona destroyed any chance at people believing a clean cut persona, like John Cena. I mean Hogan wasn't afraid to use a chair, but after Stone Cold, having a gimmick became extremely hard.

If the gimmick is too far fetched, "A Dancer - Fandango, A Model - Breeze, Demonic Tag Team - Ascension." they are dead in the water. WWE is trying to hard to go straight G material. That's just my opinion, but also I like the philosophy of sink/swim, stop getting Creative involved with promos; force Wrestlers to become interesting.

Ascension was dead in the water because they were named Victor and konnor. That would be like naming LOD Hank and alfred or Demolition Abe and Samuel

 

[Green Ranger]

Ahhhh you know what, I thought you meant literally the types of names. Even with that, there's a way to have a gimmick yet not be so overly hokey. I think the Wyatts are a good example of that (that I think Bray should limi the lengthy promos to backstage skits and not in the ring).

What happen to the Wyatt compound
He shouldn't even be in the ring or backstage every week
Let the crew handle the day to day dirty work while he sit back and cutpromos from the compound. Like alot of ya said fighting Bray should be the boss battle let Harper, Rowan & Bruan do the day to day work. They should be bring his opponents back to the compound to torture them

 

[Spyro]

I couldn't help but come back to this thread after coming across this



I know they're just getting to NXT, but Nick Miller and Shane Thorne

Guy on the right looks like Barry's Dad in The Flash

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

Why does EVERYONE need a god damn last name?


Unless the name itself has ring to it and sounds cool, get RID of it or give them something else


Not everyone's full name sounds cool like BROOOOCCCCCCCK LESSSSSSSSSSSSSSNAR!

The last names dont bother me as much as dem shyts is regular ass names
80' wrestlers had last names

hulk hogan
ricky steamboat
greg valentine
tito santana
brutus beefcake
nikiolai volkoff
hercules hernandez

but these names u knew werent on their birth certificate

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

but these names u knew werent on their birth certificate

NIKOLAI VOLKOFF'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE WAS BURNED WHEN THE SOVIET ECONOMY COLLAPSED AND THEY USED EVERY SCRAP OF PAPER IN THE COUNTRY TO KEEP WARM, BROTHER!

 

[TransJenner]

Sheamus is boring as shyt and had the rocket strapped to his back early on solely cause he fixes HHH's protein shakes and wipes the sweat from his chest during workouts.

"You're doing good on the squats fella , bend over a lil more let me give that arse a smooch fella"

 

[Riley Escobar]

Let's be honest, if any dude coming up nowadays was given Tito Santana or Brutus Beefcake as ring names we'd be

Most 80's names were trash but because we grew up with them and they've been around forever we've got used to them

Similar with band names, loads of classic ones are awful when you think about it but they're accepted as normal because they were so memorable over time

 

[Black Adam]

Last night they were actually announced as 'The team of Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows'

Laziness

 

[TheAlbionist]

They've definitely lost something... I dunno, maybe we all have... but it's sad to me that you don't get simple gimmick characters like the Warlord and Barbarian anymore. No present-day cultural significance or plea-copping... just massive mute guys dressed like Spartans and Vikings with a manager doing all the talking.

They're stuck on this whole "reality" trip when everyone already knows wrestling isn't "reality" anyway. It doesn't all need to add up, it just needs to get OVER.

 

[trick]

I couldn't help but come back to this thread after coming across this



I know they're just getting to NXT, but Nick Miller and Shane Thorne

 

[TransJenner]

Bo Dallas


Wtf is a Bo

 

[Riley Escobar]

Bo Dallas


Wtf is a Bo

This dude never played Tecmo Super Bowl