Not sure how long this will be up for, but it's interesting. I like the idea of it.
I don't know if Sami came up with the name himself, but "Solomon Crowe" is one of the best heel wrestler names I've heard in years. He looks like someone who should be making YouTube shows about videogames, which is exactly what they're going for. There could be potential here.
He should only cut promos through a secondary medium, like a computer screen or TV that's he "hacked" into. We shouldn't be seeing him cutting promos directly into a camera.
ReplyDeleteYeah he's not bad on the mic but man is his voice NOT going to help him in the long run.
ReplyDeleteI just hope they let him keep the Stretch Muffler as his finish.
Zombie Mae Young is dead
ReplyDeleteI dig it.
ReplyDeleteWith that said, they need to start calling up some babyfaces soon. Too many cool midcard heel acts, and not enough interesting midcard babyface acts to feud them with.
Man, his voice is just the wrong kind of "gruff" if there is such a thing. Just not intimidating at all unlike Ambrose.
ReplyDeleteSo when is his cryptic promo gonna get interrupted by a bunch of Philadelphia assholes with airhorns?
ReplyDeleteHis voice has too much deep throat.
ReplyDeleteWhy is there the dial-up sound in his, um, "entrance theme?" It makes him seem outdated. Other than that, this is promising.
ReplyDeleteI think if they give him a headset mic, or a mic for his lapel, he'll come across better. His voice is decent enough, but it's just hard to hear. I still think there's a place in the wrestling world for creepy, soft-spoken talkers. Not that he'll be the next Jake the Snake, but we desperately need more like him.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention Roberts after John mentioned Ambrose. Back when Ambrose was Jon Moxley, he studied Jake Roberts interviews and took much of his promo skills and the way he speaks from Roberts.
ReplyDeleteCranky Vince
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CUTTING A WWE LEGENDS LICENSING DEAL WITH ZOMBIE MAE YOUNG. NEGOTIATING A DEAL WHEREBY MAE WOULD HAVE HER OWN REALITY SHOW ON @WWENETWORK®!
Just bring in Green Lantern to beat him.
ReplyDeleteBecause people on the internet love nostalgic technology.
ReplyDeleteNo, give him Umaga's spike finisher and call it the Thumb Drive.
ReplyDelete"slow claps"
ReplyDeleteIt's probably the worst time to do it seeing as it's WrestleMania season, but Sami Zayn and Adrian Neville really need to be called up like, the NIGHT after WrestleMania. Best time to debut them really, especially being internet darlings. The pops would be amazing.
ReplyDeleteThese promos are from midway through last year. It's from the same batch as Buddy Murphy's child killer promo.
ReplyDelete" He looks like someone who should be making YouTube shows about videogames"
ReplyDeleteHe's the angriest gamer you've ever heard.
God bless those wonderful assholes
ReplyDeleteThese NXT Presentation Skills videos are always interesting. The ones by Bailey are very passionate. She's going to be a star if they allow her to display the passion she displayed in these videos.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea, but I thought the promo itself was 50 shades of meh. He just doesn't sound very intimidating.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't scream "corny" to anyone else?
ReplyDeleteMeh....I've heard angrier....or is that whinier?
ReplyDeleteSo.....is his finisher going to be getting on a blog about wrestling and complaining about storyline directions? He can call it The InBrysion (Bryan + InVasion).
ReplyDeleteHe left veiled, disparaging comments about me on Facebook without naming my name!
ReplyDeleteHe downvoted me on Disqus! Evilllllll
ReplyDeleteAnd they hate the dial up sound, that's what's going to give him some good heel heat.
ReplyDeleteHe can hijack the video recaps on the Titan Tron... or interupt the monitor feed on Cole's desk... or appear on the TV in the GMs office.
ReplyDeleteHe's loading up his carpal tunnel Smart Brace!
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of thing Scott was critical of in the 90s. The "garbageman" and "evil dentist" sort of thing. Why do I like/dislike an evil gamer?
ReplyDeleteJerkin' curtains with Fandango by summer?
ReplyDeleteThe evil hacker gimmick isn't a bad one, but I don't this is the way to do it. I'd have gone with a more cyberpunk look than the suit and open red shirt. And unless that cane turns into a hoverboard or something, that's gotta go too.
ReplyDeleteHe just firewalled me from adult Web sites. No!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I am firmly against gimmicks that exist to give the announcers a chance to make puns and silly references. This type of character seems to be designed to be put into a comedy feud against Santino because he hacked his twitter and made him post "cobras sux" or something.
ReplyDeleteBTW. A "loaded" carpal tunnel brace would be so awesome for him, forall the wrong reasons. Id love it
ReplyDeleteSo when does Corey Graves get the call?
ReplyDeleteExactly. Who knows, it might help get him over but I see it more as a throw away gimmick idea.
ReplyDeleteRemember that these promos are just initial tests and don't always represent the final product.
ReplyDeleteIt could potentially work wonders if done right.
ReplyDeleteThink about a Person of Interest/Watchdogs style approach.
He's in trouble in a match, then his opponent's main rival's entrance music starts playing. The opponent stops, confused, and he gets the dreaded "roll up from the distraction" to win.
Another time he might mess with the lighting - opponent's about to hit their finisher, but the lights (or the fire alarm!) go off for a moment, the distraction is enough to turn the tables.
Hell, he could push it even further and play with the arena itself - pyro, stage hydraulics, etc.
Would probably be a short run thing before having to adapt, but for a little while it could be quite cool and something new, fresh and different.
Still to gimmicky for me. What you laid out would seriously have like a 1 month shelf life
ReplyDeleteThere could be potential with a guy that looks like he makes youtube videos about video games??
ReplyDeleteUh...
http://officialwwenxt.tumblr.com/post/69889125465/00100011-01001001-01110100-01001000-01100001-011100
ReplyDeleteThat is a much more effective segment.
ReplyDelete1 month feels like a fairly long time in the modern industry! You can join a new stable, fight alongside them, then split with them in the space of a couple of weeks ;)
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, I don't think a short lived gimmick like this is necessarily a bad thing. Have it work for him for a while, then folk get wise to it and he retreats from technology and starts acting more like old skool Raven - a loner in the backstage, a pseudo-psychologist goth type.
After all, it's not all that often that Undertaker does his gong and appearing out of nowhere thing, or that Kane does his fire stuff, but they helped establish the characters and are always there as a fallback to get out of a sticky writing situation.
Also, his initial technology gimmick could be an excellent feud for the Wyatts - what better symbol of "The Machine" and the "soft modern world" than a tech head?
WWE Network Tech support.
ReplyDeleteThere's a little bit of dial-up modem and other distorting noises, but most of it is the Emergency Alert System. The SAME codes used to transmit the message (whether it's a weekly test, an Amber Alert, a tornado warning or the government taking over all airwaves to announce a nuclear attack is under way) sound like dial-up modem noises. It also included the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP sound that goes with the EAS and its predecessor, the Emergency Broadcast System.
ReplyDeleteIt's a work in progress, of course, but WWE would never be allowed to use the EAS code noises in a wrestler's theme music/Titantron, because it could theoretically cause a real EAS interruption from other TV channels or cable systems (when hackers got into the EAS of a couple of rural TV stations to announce that zombies were attacking the living, the codes triggered EAS interruptions at nearby stations).
that's not dial up sound, that's dubstep
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ReplyDeleteraw anonymous general manager
he looks like a tool
ReplyDeleteIt's the slicked back hair. Course, even with it out he looks like Doc Brown from Back to the Future.
ReplyDeleteThey could have Punk bring him in as an ally in his war with the authority in an Anonymous like role
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