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Fsmhunk: Jul 19, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

Bhester posted:

He was briefly referred to as a silverback.

and sexual chocolate.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 20:50

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 18:56

Big Coffin Hunter: Aug 13, 2005

Bobtista posted:

There's also black guys who commit crimes and black guys who are pimps and black guys who sleep with old white women. That's like 4 different black guy gimmicks right there, diversity central.

two of these gimmicks also involved dancing

# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:27

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

well hey at least they've never given black guys a southern preacher gimmick with singing AND dancing

# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:30

coconono: Aug 11, 2004; KISS ME KRIS

oldpainless posted:

A black man is the strongest man in the world so that's positive.

got knocked out in 2.3 seconds by a giant white man in St. Louis.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:31

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

Big Coffin Hunter posted:

two of these gimmicks also involved dancing

A dancing criminal black guy is an entirely separate gimmick from a dancing black guy and a criminal black guy.

It's diversity all the way down.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:43

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

Has there ever been an Irish guy in WWE who's gimmick isn't "I like to fight" or "I am a leprechaun"

There's your real diversity problem.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:46

pressedbunny: May 31, 2007; To A Brand New Galaxy

Guy? No. But Becky Lynch has ditched the jigging and green tights and is now just a Lita rehash, which is... sort of better?

# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:48

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Hornswoggle is 28 :stare:

# ? Dec 31, 2014 21:48

Gavok: Oct 10, 2005; Brock! Oh, man, I'm sorry about your...

...tooth?

Bobtista posted:

Has there ever been an Irish guy in WWE who's gimmick isn't "I like to fight" or "I am a leprechaun"

There's your real diversity problem.

There's an Irish guy in WWE whose gimmick is that he wears armor made of sentient, bloodthirsty ooze from outer space.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:01

Dias: Feb 20, 2011; by sebmojo

pressedbunny posted:

Guy? No. But Becky Lynch has ditched the jigging and green tights and is now just a Lita rehash, which is... sort of better?

NXT is magic tho. Wasn't Big E Langston just a super-strong guy that pinned you for a 5-count there?

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:01

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

can we just keep everyone in NXT until vince dies

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:23

STAC Goat: Mar 12, 2008; Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Bhester posted:

So the fans are racists if they don't cheer for a black guy?

Well, I mean there is a reasonable argument in a vacuum that if fans don't get behind minority superstars than they're never encouraging the WWE to push them like a Daniel Bryan or CM Punk.

Of course that's in a vacuum. In reality we know Bryan and Punk are abnormalities and its quite possible fans don't get behind more wrestlers - white or otherwise - because they know there's not much point and WWE doesn't really listen. You can also safely argue that expecting fans to get behind an act like New Day when they've been given nothing to really get behind is unreasonable. Bryan and Punk chants came after WWE already half way committed to pushing them and then changed their minds. Fans today have probably learned to expect start-stop pushes and a lot of people doing nothing so rooting for Kofi, Cesaro, Sin Cara, or Darren Young are all pretty equally pointless.

I couldn't think of an Asian wrestler. Does WWE not have any Asian wrestlers right now? No wonder they signed KENTA.

pressedbunny posted:

Guy? No. But Becky Lynch has ditched the jigging and green tights and is now just a Lita rehash, which is... sort of better?

Is it weird that I figured it was some kind of Dropkick Murphy's type of inspiration? Am I the racist?

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:40

History Comes Inside!: Nov 20, 2004

STAC Goat posted:

Is it weird that I figured it was some kind of Dropkick Murphy's type of inspiration? Am I the racist?

Yes. I bet all those ginger freckled micks look the same too huh?

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:44

Dias: Feb 20, 2011; by sebmojo

STAC Goat posted:

Is it weird that I figured it was some kind of Dropkick Murphy's type of inspiration? Am I the racist?

Nah, her newest theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06uIM0bP25Q is very much a celtic-punk ripoff anyway (not as bad as it could have been tho). But she's always been "rocker chick" so the callback's fine.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:46

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

But Dropkick Murphys suck and Becky Lynch doesn't.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:47

STAC Goat: Mar 12, 2008; Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Dias posted:

Nah, her newest theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06uIM0bP25Q is very much a celtic-punk ripoff anyway (not as bad as it could have been tho). But she's always been "rocker chick" so the callback's fine.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Its obviously not some kind of direct inspiration or ripoff (or at least not that I recognize) but "punk rock" didn't really seem like much of a groundbreaking cliche departure to me considering celtic punk rock is a big part of American Irish cliches/culture.

Its not like its racist or anything and I actually think it works but it doesn't seem like very outside the box thinking. Its like they started her with the Riverdance thing, someone said "that's ridiculous", so they just transitioned to the celtic punk thing because the other idea was drunk bar songs.

# ? Dec 31, 2014 22:55

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

Luigi Thirty posted:

Hornswoggle is 28

Him and Kevin Steen got some city years on them :stonk:

# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:15

Skaw: Aug 5, 2004

Dias posted:

NXT is magic tho. Wasn't Big E Langston just a super-strong guy that pinned you for a 5-count there?

Yeah, Big E's five count stuff got him pretty over with the NXT crowd.

Of course, none of that followed with him to the main roster except his theme. So we got a guy who had his music claim 3s not enough, he needs 5.

And never got a 5. Ever. I really wish he'd have gotten it, since it was a pretty good character gimmick saying he can put you down for longer than necessary. Instead he was just bland strongman #7 on the roster in the ring, but who was genuinely funny off script.

Skaw fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Dec 31, 2014

# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:21

Dias: Feb 20, 2011; by sebmojo

STAC Goat posted:

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Its obviously not some kind of direct inspiration or ripoff (or at least not that I recognize) but "punk rock" didn't really seem like much of a groundbreaking cliche departure to me considering celtic punk rock is a big part of American Irish cliches/culture.

Its not like its racist or anything and I actually think it works but it doesn't seem like very outside the box thinking. Its like they started her with the Riverdance thing, someone said "that's ridiculous", so they just transitioned to the celtic punk thing because the other idea was drunk bar songs.

It's not something groundbreaking for an Irish wrestler, but at least it's legit part of her personality (I think Becky's a massive grunge fan) and she's currently allied and kayfabe best friends with Sasha Banks without it being an "odd pairing" thing. WWE ain't brilliant with nationalities, if you're a foreigner you're always defined by your country (unless it's England, and even then it's iffy).

# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:22

I Before E: Jul 2, 2012

At least it's not a Bono gimmick

# ? Dec 31, 2014 23:27

Gavok: Oct 10, 2005; Brock! Oh, man, I'm sorry about your...

...tooth?

I Before E posted:

At least it's not a Bono gimmick

Well yeah. It would be pointless what with Adam Copeland being retired.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 00:04

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

justin gabriel doesn't spend all his time talking about Krugerrands and pining for the orange free state, then again he doesn't talk much in the first place so

# ? Jan 1, 2015 05:06

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Alouicious posted:

justin gabriel doesn't spend all his time talking about Krugerrands and pining for the orange free state, then again he doesn't talk much in the first place so

I think that's more of a Leo Kruger gimmick to me

# ? Jan 1, 2015 05:09

Revenant Threshold: Jan 1, 2008

Alouicious posted:

justin gabriel doesn't spend all his time talking about Krugerrands and pining for the orange free state, then again he doesn't talk much in the first place so

There seems to be a point between the powers that be only knowing the stereotypes about where you're from and the powers that be knowing jack poo poo about where you're from that seems to be the perfect place for not having to be a walking one-gimmick-that's-it dude.

I'd call it a sweet spot, but it's not as if those that escape that kind of booking get anything actually good either.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 05:59

Beef Jerky Robot: Sep 20, 2009; "And the DICK?"

Bhester posted:

So the fans are racists if they don't cheer for a black guy?

Probably more that they never have anyone to cheer for.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 06:35

Shoehead: Sep 28, 2005; Wassup, Choom?
Ya need sumthin'?

STAC Goat posted:

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Its obviously not some kind of direct inspiration or ripoff (or at least not that I recognize) but "punk rock" didn't really seem like much of a groundbreaking cliche departure to me considering celtic punk rock is a big part of American Irish cliches/culture.

Its not like its racist or anything and I actually think it works but it doesn't seem like very outside the box thinking. Its like they started her with the Riverdance thing, someone said "that's ridiculous", so they just transitioned to the celtic punk thing because the other idea was drunk bar songs.

She's Irish Irish though. Not the K-mart poo poo you get in the States.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 08:37

nooneofconsequence: Oct 30, 2012; she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

oldpainless posted:

A black man is the strongest man in the world so that's positive.

I thought John Cena won that title when he easily defeated the black man at arm wrestling.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 09:35

Corzaa: Aug 1, 2006

oldpainless posted:

A black man is the strongest man in the world so that's positive.

A black man was once King and Champion of Champions.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 11:36

Umbra Dubium: Nov 23, 2007; The British Empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going into battle without one, you're sorely mistaken!

Corzaa posted:

A black man was once [...] Champion of Champions.

What does it say that he won that match with help from a white rapper?

# ? Jan 1, 2015 12:26

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

not twitter but eh close enough

# ? Jan 1, 2015 20:22

The_Rob: Feb 1, 2007; Blah blah blah blah!!

Corzaa posted:

A black man was once King and Champion of Champions.

King booker is legit my favorite gimmick of the last 15 years. Everything he did entertained me.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 20:46

El Gallinero Gros: Mar 17, 2010

Luigi Thirty posted:

not twitter but eh close enough

# ? Jan 1, 2015 20:49

Vince MechMahon: Jan 1, 2008

Luigi Thirty posted:

not twitter but eh close enough

# ? Jan 1, 2015 20:53

Two Beans: Nov 27, 2003; dabbin' on em; Pillbug

Luigi Thirty posted:

not twitter but eh close enough

That is a

, but now I'm imaging KO coming out to Chavo's theme only to send a dude out on a stretcher after powerbombing them on the ring edge.

# ? Jan 1, 2015 21:14

rovert: Jun 10, 2013

Swagger at the LA live event last Monday:
http://instagram.com/p/xQeh6iOPrJ/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=video&modal=true

# ? Jan 2, 2015 03:13

Cabbit: Jul 19, 2001; _{Is that everything you have?}

rovert posted:

Swagger at the LA live event last Monday:
http://instagram.com/p/xQeh6iOPrJ/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=video&modal=true

Why can't we have this Jack Swagger on TV? The big dumb patriotic goof who likes to dance around and do pushups?

# ? Jan 2, 2015 10:25

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# ? Jan 2, 2015 19:24

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# ? Jan 2, 2015 19:32

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# ? Jan 2, 2015 19:37

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Roman Reigns: Aug 23, 2007

Maybe this will be the year Rey's legs finally fly off while doing the 619.

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