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Posted: Jul 01 2009 02:18 pm

The Mountie would occassionly ride a horse to the ring, though I believe after he dismounted a stagehand would take the horse back up the ramp and then backstage.

Posted: Jul 01 2009 02:29 pm

The Sandman(No, not the one from ECW), a guy who wears a blue robe and wizard-like hat to the ring, and throws sand into people's faces to make them go to sleep, where he then makes the pin or goes for his finisher "Hibernationplex".

Posted: Jul 01 2009 03:25 pm

Some dude that digs cosplaying. Ever show he'd come with a different attire based on an anime or a TV show.

Posted: Jul 01 2009 06:49 pm

Knyte wrote:

The Mountie would occassionly ride a horse to the ring, though I believe after he dismounted a stagehand would take the horse back up the ramp and then backstage.

This makes perfect sense to me (although still, that must have been one hell of a calm horse.) The idea of riding in isn't terribly nuts, just the idea of keeping the poor thing at ringside for a 15-30 min match.

Posted: Jul 01 2009 07:46 pm

Someone should make a wrestling gimmick based around my persona!

Their finishing move would be called The Last Word.

Posted: Jul 01 2009 08:56 pm

How about some guy who just randomly shows up, beats people up, and then drinks beers....

Oh wait, that's already been done..... twice.

Posted: Jul 02 2009 05:59 am

The Marionette.

He comes down from the rafters with wires attached to his arms and legs and wrestlers in an extreme bizarre, jerky fashion. Eventually, he falls in love with one of the female wrestlers and she wishes upon the Titantron that he were a real live man. And it works for some reason.

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Syd, the laughter induced by your Marionette pitch made me pee a little bit.

I think they should just start licensing fighting game characters. I would love to see a guy dressed up like Zangief wrestle John Cena.

Posted: Aug 23 2010 03:17 pm

How about a take off of Mythbusters, except one guy? Don't have a good name yet. Finishing move would be a brainbuster rebranded as The Mythbuster. He'd wear a shirt that said: "Bustin' makes me feel good!"

The kids would love that.

How about a vapid Entertainment Tonight-style personality who hosts a gossip show and digs up/makes up embarassing secrets about the wrestlers? Finishing move could be The Rumor Killer. Maybe the WWE could just hire Mario Lopez.

Posted: Aug 23 2010 04:14 pm

Septic Sal, a wrestler/sanitation specialist who comes to the ring in a septic pump truck. His clothes would be stained and look horrible, and he'd carry around an item he'd call "The Honeybucket". It would be feces and urine in kayfabe, but really just lemonade and chocolate pudding with some mashed up snickers bars inside.

Posted: Aug 23 2010 05:17 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

How about a take off of Mythbusters, except one guy? Don't have a good name yet. Finishing move would be a brainbuster rebranded as The Mythbuster. He'd wear a shirt that said: "Bustin' makes me feel good!"

The kids would love that.

How about a vapid Entertainment Tonight-style personality who hosts a gossip show and digs up/makes up embarassing secrets about the wrestlers? Finishing move could be The Rumor Killer. Maybe the WWE could just hire Mario Lopez.

Didn't they already have that with the "G-TV" angle? Although, they never did reveal who was behind, but I think it was pretty obvious at the time, that it was Goldust.

Posted: Aug 25 2010 10:18 pm

How about a heel that's sort of like an ice cream truck driver? He could drive it down and at the very lest carry a cooler with a bunch of cones. After his matches he could just shove them in his opponents mouths, sort of like how Ted DiBease used to do with the money. Call him Napoleon Gacy. Fat guy. Finisher is a Stinger Splash or the Vader corner thing and call it The Ice Cream Sandwich.

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The Cleveland Steamer. He'd come out wearing white pants with a big brown circle on his ass. He'd also use Toilets as weapons. I can picture Howard Finkel announcing it now...

"AND THE CHALLENGERRR...FROM BUTT MONTANA...WEIGHING 247 POUNDS OF PURE HUMAN EXCREMENT...THE CLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVELAAAAAAAAAAAAAND....STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAMMERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"

Posted: Aug 30 2010 01:35 pm

How about a classical composer? He'd come to the ring in a powder wig and ruffley clothes. He'd occasionally use a conductors baton as a weapon His finisher would be an inverted DDT called "the Requiem".