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Why are gimmicks so much tamer now?

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 09:44:55 No.13471445 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13471497 >>13471822 >>13471871 >>13471989 >>13472503 >>13472545 >>13472864

Since they cut back on the roids and also cut back on the gimmicks almost everyone on the roster just looks like an Instagram influencer wannabe.
Give me a guy who's just a cop, a cowboy, a pirate, a clown etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 09:46:41 No.13471452 Report

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Because of the gay community

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 09:56:08 No.13471497 Report

Quoted By: >>13471516 >>13472483 >>13472765 >>13473494

>>13471445
>Give me a guy who's just a cop, a cowboy, a pirate, a clown etc.
Why the fuck would you want something like that dickhead? Those gimmicks don't work within the context of wrestling. Fucking dumbass faggot cunt, go watch 1995 vince slop if that's what you enjoy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 10:02:56 No.13471516 Report

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>>13471497
The gimmicks work, especially for midcarders. More normalfags know Doink than whoever your favorite black haired, sleeve tattooed fag is on the roster right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 10:05:15 No.13471524 Report

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>>13471516
but somebody with a gimmick like that is never going to amount to anything so nobody will ever be able to get invested in what they do

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 10:08:21 No.13471536 Report

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>cowboy

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 10:10:40 No.13471544 Report

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>>13471516
>More normalfags know Doink
No, they don't

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 10:11:35 No.13471549 Report

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There's an entire faction of clowns in AAA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 10:53:55 No.13471712 Report

Quoted By: >>13471811 >>13471831 >>13471981

2024 gimmicks.

Jew blamer when we know it's Illuminati
Mumble rapper of every race in a faction together
Right and left people.
Russian
Arab
Chinese
White alliance
Weeabo that you make fun of
Weeabo that is crowd favorite
Goth people and band t-shirts for mellinials and gen x mixed for all alternative grunge to goth to icp to etc. Edgy humor swears. Very emotional. Emo etc.
4chan meme user
/mu/ fashion person
Swole
Twitch/influencer
Vtuber/furry
High roller someone who spends alot of money on things to look fancy.
Homeless drug addict
New age person which is know it all heel
Esoteric person which is baby dace
Zoomer girl and guy couple.

Why isn't this a thing
Thus is what is missing from wrestling

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 10:55:25 No.13471715 Report

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>>13471524
Most wrestlers shouldn't ever amount to anything

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:04:32 No.13471748 Report

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>>13471536
kek based hanger btfo out of muh back in the day meme just by existing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:19:12 No.13471811 Report

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>>13471712
>Twitch/influencer
they tried the streamer thing on NXT with some chick but it bombed, Madi Wrenkowski had kinda an influencer gimmick on the indies
>Homeless drug addict
Jon Moxley

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:23:19 No.13471822 Report

Quoted By: >>13471896 >>13471945 >>13474732

>>13471445
if a fed that is on TV did Akeem The African Dream or a Big Bossman gimnick they'd have to pay a fine or be off TV real quick

every form of modern media is made for soft faggots, doesn't matter if it's for chuds or trannies

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:26:12 No.13471831 Report

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>>13471712
some anime obsesed weeb who does the naruto run to the ring and thinks he lives in an anime would unironically be over with me

think Kaido from Saiki K if you ever seen it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i8SMAKR7BE

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:27:13 No.13471836 Report

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>>13471524
Golddust was never going to be more than a midcarder but we all still remember him and his antics because he was fully invested in the character.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:34:17 No.13471871 Report

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>>13471445
Who did these guys face at Survivor Series? If I had to guess:
>Tito Santana
>Hacksaw Jim Duggan
>The Bushwhackers
How close am I?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:39:28 No.13471896 Report

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>>13471822
I don't see why a heel cop in peak ACAB era wouldn't have worked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 11:53:33 No.13471945 Report

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>>13471822
The Ass Boys have been running a whack-ass whiteboi gimmick for years.

>every form of modern media is made for soft faggots

OK boomer. Remember this when you snitchcall Domino's next time AEW uses a pizzacutter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 12:02:41 No.13471980 Report

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>>13471871
This team never actually wrestled together. Akeem was replaced by Bad News Brown. Their opponents were Dusty Rhodes, Brutus Beefcake, The Red Rooster, Tito Santana. So you got 1 right

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 12:02:47 No.13471981 Report

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>>13471712
AEW has more gimmicks because they let people come up with their own shit. WWE has proven to want short people to have 2006 ROH matches.

But WWE does have 3 prominent gimmicks:
Kevin Owens
>Reddit, the guy
Drew McIntyre
>/fit/, the guy
Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, Randy Orton, etc.
>Somebody's kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 12:05:28 No.13471989 Report

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>>13471445
kek this guy is still a Jimmy and misses the fucking New Generation kwab

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 12:18:14 No.13472046 Report

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>>13471524
This is what's wrong with you participation trophy faggots. Not everyone is supposed to be a main eventer. You need people at different levels of the card to create an overall good show. That's the same reason every company that just let's guys go out and have Wrestlemania main event caliber matches with 50 false finishes in the opening match eventually dies out or they only get 100-200 fans in the same bingo hall like PWG.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 12:23:57 No.13472074 Report

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>>13472046
PWG surviving as long as it has isn't a diss lil bro, There's also more gimmicks in it than WWE.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 12:28:47 No.13472108 Report

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>>13472046
I blame WWE for rewarding whiners. Did Kofi Kingston really need the world title? Hacksaw Jim Duggan didn't need a title. Jake the Snake Roberts didn't need a title. Roddy Piper didn't need a title. And yet they were all household names. But you know who did need a title to get over? The Honky Tonk Man. It's like you said, it isn't a participation trophy. If anything, it's a prop. It's a prop you should only have when either you're the most popular or you're not popular enough. If you're over without the belt but not the most over then you having the belt means nothing.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 13:31:10 No.13472438 Report

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>>13471536
More like gayboy

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 13:44:01 No.13472483 Report

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>>13471497
>Those gimmicks don't work within the context of wrestling
>OP posts a photo of four successful gimmicks that generated tons of heat during one of the hottest periods in wrestling history

The Golden Era was full of these sorts of gimmicks, up and down the card. You really don't know what you're talking about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 13:47:57 No.13472503 Report

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>>13471445
Didn't work in new gen so no.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 13:52:34 No.13472519 Report

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>>13472503
>t. zoomer that thinks 1995 is the entire New Gen era

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 13:53:53 No.13472526 Report

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>>13472519
God ur dumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 13:58:19 No.13472545 Report

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>>13471445
In the era of kayfabe it could have worked, but it probably seems silly now

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:00:25 No.13472558 Report

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>>13471980
>So you got 1 right
I did my best. But really, they should call that match "Jobber Series".

Even Dusty.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:14:11 No.13472645 Report

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>>13472526
The New Gen ran from 1993 through 1997. There were lots of successful gimmicks that debuted during this period, including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mankind, Goldust, and a darker iteration of the Undertaker.

The bad year for WWF was 1995. You're missing out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:20:40 No.13472688 Report

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>>13472645
Stone Cold & Mankind were in spite of The New Generation lil bro, the original WWF pitches of their gimmicks were vastly different.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:27:36 No.13472736 Report

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>>13472688
So you're incapable of enjoying it unless the gimmick is based on an original pitch? Weird.

How about all the great feuds and matches during this period? I've alluded to some already, but how about the Shawn/Razor ladder match? Bret/Owen in a cage? Both considered 5 star classics. How about Shawn/Bulldog? Or Bulldog/Owen? Do I even need to mention Bret/Austin at WrestleMania 13? If you want to pretend that was Attitude Era already (it wasn't), then go back to their Survivor Series match in 96, which was nearly as good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:28:54 No.13472744 Report

Quoted By: >>13472793

>>13472736
I didn't say that.

>Shawn/Bulldog

I really hope you don't mean in the UK

>>13472438
We don't sign our posts here.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:33:56 No.13472765 Report

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>>13471497

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:40:46 No.13472793 Report

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>>13472744
>I didn't say that
Then quit bashing the New Gen then.

As for Shawn/Bulldog, I was thinking of their match at King of the Ring 1996. Their match at One Night Only 1997 was also good though. Why don't you like it?

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 14:54:02 No.13472864 Report

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>>13471445
Paul Burchill as a pirate was fuckin' awesome in the mid 2000s. But of course a company this stupid will fail to push it properly. Even a more recent star like Elias had a singing gimmick & it stood out among a sea of boring workrate tatted guys.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 16:25:41 No.13473494 Report

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>>13471497
>Those gimmicks don't work within the context of wrestling.

Cop:
>Heel: sadist cop who got a thrill beating up detainees now wants to beat people up for money
>Face: Cop who wanted to clean up his city wants to clean up the sporting/wrestling world and be an ambassador for justice and good policing

Cowboy:
>Heel: Rural rancher wants to show the soft coastal city zoomers what real hard work is like and kick them off of his television set
>Face: Good country boy come to work hard in showbiz prizefighting and put money back into his farm community/small town

Pirate:
>Heel: Scummy thug wants to use wrestling travel as a chance to loot and rob whatever town he's fighting in
>Face: Dashing rogue uses wrestling to travel the land/world robbing from local rich bastards to teach them a lesson

Clown:
>Heel: Bitter carnie wants to ruin everyone's fun and make them the butt of the joke while getting paid to do something/the fame he never got for his circus act
>Face: Circus entertainer who used to get bullied by the other acts/audience after attendances began to drop has gone into wrestling to bring smiles and get people going to the circus again

Literally every gimmick you can think of can be given a purpose and context for wrestling. It's not hard, just that most bookers and writers in all media now are lazy

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2024 18:44:05 No.13474732 Report

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>>13471822
>Big Bossman gimnick they'd have to pay a fine or be off TV real quick

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