What wrestling gimmick should the WWE bring back

[ZenMachine]

Good point.

A true heel never wins on his own

Exactly.

I always thought that they lost an opportunity to make ECW into a major heel group. They should have had Heyman and crew turn on Steph. In my scenario they would beat her down. Brutally beat her down, so intense that Vince even comes out to try and save her. Beat his ass too.

In the weeks that follow, keep pushing the brutality level of the attacks. Single out guys and just destroy them.

Always have the heels one step ahead of the faces. At least until you finally let the face win.

Just my .02

Zen

 

[Jae]

The two best heels by far.... #1 Tully Blanchard. Remember how he and Baby Doll first started that gimmick of the loaded elbow pad? How he would get knocked down, roll over to the apron of the ring and she would slide it on his arm? Face picks him up, whips him into the corner, charges in, Tully holds the elbow up, instant knockout. All around, he was someone arrogant, pompous, loathing, minimal talent, and huge ego. Perfect heel qualities.

#2 Arn Anderson - remember how he held the TV title for so long? (bonus question, remember the tv title used to be red and silver?) He would impose the 20 minute time limit on the match, and spend 15 minutes jumping out of the ring, walking around, asking the fans how much time was left.

There are NO good heels nowdays. Which is why the upper tier of wrestling sucks. The midcard - IC & Euro contenders are so much more exciting to watch. Hey! UT won the belt. Who is going to challenge him? Austin? Rock? Angle? HHH? *YAWN* seen it all before. there are only like 6 top level contenders and when one wins the belt, the other 5 just get in line for their PPV appearances. A champ is only as good as his challengers. Which is why Hogan was a champ because his challengers were Bundy, Andre, Warrior, Savage, Zeus, etc.. big monster type people, or people who betrayed him. Flair was great because his challengers were Race, Steamboat, Funk, Vader, Nikita Koloff, etc... People who were better wrestlers or stronger brawlers than he. You always expected him to lose. It was a matter of sitting back just watching to see who would finally get through his devious ways and take the belt. It was rare that someone did.

 

[The Shadow]

Hmmmm...what about a re-formed Dx with HBk, HHH and X-pac vs. nWo feud??

 

[Jae]

God knows, if the WWE fired it's writers and hired a few people off this board to write the story lines, wrestling would be on fire again.

 

[ZenMachine]

The two best heels by far.... #1 Tully Blanchard. Remember how he and Baby Doll first started that gimmick of the loaded elbow pad? How he would get knocked down, roll over to the apron of the ring and she would slide it on his arm? Face picks him up, whips him into the corner, charges in, Tully holds the elbow up, instant knockout. All around, he was someone arrogant, pompous, loathing, minimal talent, and huge ego. Perfect heel qualities.

#2 Arn Anderson - remember how he held the TV title for so long? (bonus question, remember the tv title used to be red and silver?) He would impose the 20 minute time limit on the match, and spend 15 minutes jumping out of the ring, walking around, asking the fans how much time was left.

There are NO good heels nowdays. Which is why the upper tier of wrestling sucks. The midcard - IC & Euro contenders are so much more exciting to watch. Hey! UT won the belt. Who is going to challenge him? Austin? Rock? Angle? HHH? *YAWN* seen it all before. there are only like 6 top level contenders and when one wins the belt, the other 5 just get in line for their PPV appearances. A champ is only as good as his challengers. Which is why Hogan was a champ because his challengers were Bundy, Andre, Warrior, Savage, Zeus, etc.. big monster type people, or people who betrayed him. Flair was great because his challengers were Race, Steamboat, Funk, Vader, Nikita Koloff, etc... People who were better wrestlers or stronger brawlers than he. You always expected him to lose. It was a matter of sitting back just watching to see who would finally get through his devious ways and take the belt. It was rare that someone did.

Absolutely agree about Tully and Arn. Part of the reason the 4 horsemen were so great.

Disagree about Hogan. He wasn't huge because of his opponents. Maybe at first, but wrestling became a parody of itself during most of the Hogan era. It was a comic book and he was the perfect hero. Regardless of the villian. IMHO.

You couldn't be more right about Flair. He always "found" a way to win.

Zen

 

[daveyboy]

Anybody remember the Anderson Brothers?

Can anybody remember watching Olie & Gene Anderson when they wrestled or am I starting to show my age a little bit now? Well, I think they were the meanest, nastiest, most ruthless tag team that I've ever seen. They would just literally beat their opponents half to death week in & week out. Demolition kinda reminded me of them a little bit. I think they were supposed to be related to Arn somehow. Anyway, I was just wondering how they would match up in the ring with their brutal force style vs the more athletic wrestler's of today....

 

[Mysterio]

The Repo Man!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jae]

In Hogan's case, he was cartoonish... the American Hero that could not be beaten, which is why when he did face opponents, he was often "injured" in the weeks before the match. Hence Bundy doing that splash on him on the cement floor the week before their cage match, Jake Roberts "poisoning him", Orndorff betraying him and injuring his neck with two piledrivers, UT with his tombstone on the cement, etc....


Flair employed many of this tactics. Slamming the car door on Windhams hand to cancel out his claw, busting up Stings' leg, blindsiding Steamboat, etc.. but here in this case, even injured, you still would have betted that the face would have won. A career threatening injury did nothing but even the odds in Flair's case. Where as Hogan had to fight back and overcome, Flair just had to outlast and cheat. But in some cases, Flair showed his smarts and briliance. The 'old' Nikita Koloff was destined to be the next champ, week in and week out, he left Flair laying out cold in their impromptu bouts. Ivan Koloff was so sure of this, he remained backstage to keep the Horsemen at bay, even though Nikita was the heel, he was rooted for the entire match, in the end Flair schooled boy him into the pin.

 

[Mysterio]

Manger Slick Rick should be brought back to manger the Godfather.

PIMPING AIN'T EASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!