What happened to gimmicks and cool names?

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Bumped this cause of this pic I saw -
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The good ol days :wow:

EVERYONE was a character back then, even jobbers had characters; look at that roster up there, just stacked with quality characters and memorable wrestlers. The comms, the lead stars, the tag teams, the women, the story lines, the characters, the Vince character, the bloody violent matches, the PPV's had better fukking titles, the car crash TV anything can happen moments... just fukkery and the best era for wrestling :ohlawd:

I mean we all know WWE is trash these days, but seeing this one picture just makes it even more shyt :beli:
 

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everybody has such a shyt regular name now

Buddy Murphy :mjlol:


Wesley Blake :heh:
Elias Samson :upsetfavre:

Erick Rowan :comeon:

Luke Harper :russell:

Daniel Bryan :bryan:



Imagine if they debuted The Undertaker today...and he was just named Mark Cameron or some shyt :snoop:

Sad part is you're not wrong. There is a demon character, and his name is Finn Balor. An eater of worlds, hills have eyes-type character, and his name is Bray Wyatt. A mask wearing giant, Braun Strowman. A seflie taking paparazzi hog, and his name is Tyler Breeze. That's like The Godfather being called David Clark. :francis:

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 :mjlol:


Nick Miller :usure: Yeah he's a future star, a legendary character in the making :mjlol: I mean who is more memorable, Val Venis or Sean Morley? :comeon:

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

Hank and Alfred.... Abe and Samuel :deadmanny::deadrose::dead:
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We are in the realism era. The smarks could only talk about work rate and being mad at vinces corny gimmicks and now we barely have any. Def shows a lack of imagination

Rusev got a classic gimmick and rusev one of the best on the roster.

Bray got a cool gimmick with his stable of hillbilly villains. Thats why hes been getting props and has life.

Brocks gimmick is being brock. That works

Dean being the lunatic fringe is eh but dean comes off as being true to his character so his works as well..

Kevin owens is like a schoolyard bully so i aint mad at him too much.

Aj is aj. Smark dream. Being phenomenal is good enough foe him but anderson and gallos need a lil help.

Nakamura lives his ginmick his works.

Finn balor is a lame name for the shyt he portrays but atleast he is sometjing extra.

Samoa joe is a lazy gimmick but people like him i will allow it

Rome and seth are lazy with theirs even tho i like them as wrestlers

Cena turned into the anerican hero ala hogan im not mad at him being just cena

Newday troll gimmick is lol even if names are yawn

Big cas and enzo come off as nyc area shyt talkers. Their gimmick is dope. Enzo being the mouth and cass being the hard ass kicker

Alberto del rio is fine tho i prefer alberto el patron.

Dolph is wack. So wack. Wish he left instead of cody
Sami zayn is ultra generic but i get it. Name sucks tho
All social outcasts are lame
Neville is lame

Cesaro im 50/50 on. Swiss superman is cool. Least his name dont sound generic as fukk.

Ones i weote are are most notable having good gimmicks even if names are shytty

Course jericho kane dudleys show taker trips golddust and truth go without saying

The rest of the roster needs some work in the imagination department
 

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I was talking about this shyt at work... These dudes today don't have no cool trademarks or would they put asses in seats. Somebody brought up Sammy Zayn, Great worker but character, He bland as a muthafukka and looks like he works at Trader Joes. Seen anybody wearing Sammy's shirts?
 

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If Rock debuted today he'd probably be called Dwayne Johnson, Austin would just be Steve Austin; no "Stone Cold" part. Like someone said Undertaker would be Mark Cameron or some shyt, Vader would be Liam White or something, Kane would be Glenn Jacobson etc etc. :francis:

I mean Kane was mentioned on Supernatural a few seasons back, is a hit TV show gonna mention Braun Strowman in 20 years? :lolbron:
 
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