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Especially given the...uh....financial troubles.
Honestly, I wasn't even thinking about that. But yeah, there's that too. Though, since he's new to the roster (sort of), I don't think he'd get fired this year. They'd probably do to him what they did with Tyson Kidd: send him back down to NXT to help put over the up and comers.
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But while the Bo-Leive thing absolutely has a short shelf-life, his ability to sell it, and get exactly the reaction he's looking for, does look good on his resume, when it's time to get a new angle. Possibly a more serious one.
Now that you mention it, I can see it. He's a god awful baby face, but, given the right motivation, he could probably do a "heel-turn"...which would be hilarious...going from "heel" to heel. He still needs to step up his game in-ring though. He's not bad, he just needs to find his stride.
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I mean, look at his brother. Once a complete nobody named Husky Harris who was set to fail by design, now a much more interesting and charismatic character that has genuine potential for longevity and accolade.
Eh, the two aren't that comparable, honestly. Even as Husky, people were behind him. In fact, I remember a lot of people, myself included, were kind of ticked that he was sent back down to developmental. The guy can go in the ring. He's also a great promo, but it definitely was the best thing for him career-wise, as he's stumbled upon something that is going to set him up for life.
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A lot of guys have gone through s**t gimmicks. It seems like a "test run", and "rite of passage", really. The Ringmaster, Rocky Maivia...the list goes on.
Well, let's be honest...Rock's wasn't so much of a "here, let's give him this goofy gimmick"...they legit thought people would get behind him. And if it were the 80s, they might have. But he had the bad luck of getting a super babyface gimmick in an era that was tired of that clean nose crap. In fact, if it were the 80s and he didn't get over, he would have been ********. He's kind of lucky that he was working in the era he was and was surrounded by the talent that he was (he really wasn't that great of a promo guy until after he joined the Nation).
All the other gimmicky s**t...that's not really done as a "rite of passage" as much as it's "know your place, impudent swine!" Mostly, anyway. There are few exceptions, like the Hurricane Helms gimmick...which was his idea. I think Eugene was Nick Dinsmore's idea as well. But "Ringmaster" was a total slap in the face, cause WWE (and even WWF back then) are really bad about managing talent...especially talent that is over in spite of what they want (Ryder, Ziggler, after Jericho's epic debut he was doing nothing, Bryan when he first entered WWE, every WCW guy brought over in the buyout, every ECW guy brought over in the buyout, Goldberg...the list goes on and on...and I'm not saying none of these guys eventually got over in WWF/E, but a lot of them were given a s**t hand for getting over on their own despite what WWE wanted).
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