10 TERRIBLE WWE Ideas That Thankfully Never Happened

[@StageRight123]

Tajiri said no, because impersonating a member of the Yakuza will get you a rather unpleasant visit from them.

[@NemesisRTCW]

Followed with a visit to a nearby lake, with cement shoes.

[@game_invader179]

Followed by broken knee caps

[@RandyOrtonrulez1000]

@@game_invader179 I think you and the comment above were reversed, it would be broken knee caps, followed by a trip to a nearby lake wearing cement shoes:))!! Lol 😆 😝 😂 🤣 😜 🤪

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

Back in the 1960s, The Sicillians, Lou Albano and Tony Altimore, had a visit from the real Mafia asking them to tone down their gimmick.

[@KTEFilmsInc]

Its worked wonders for Sega though

[@KingCanada]

Wow...who would have guessed that Heidenreich getting "up close and personal" with Michael Cole was actually EXTREMELY TAME compared to what we could have gotten?

[@CHAOTIXMaddLass]

I know right?

[@fragolastrawberry5920]

I can only imagine how horrendous that would've been for european viewers XD

[@mikejohn6669]

Michael Cole limps down to the commentary desk. Sits on donut pillow. Ladies and gentlemen we flash back to last week to show you full blown bathroom sodomy. Cole how you feeling?

[@ericpetersen6343]

@@mikejohn6669 b. Alyssam what 0]].%

[@supachef_dmoney_4]

The fact that goofy didn't know Paul Heyman was Jewish is beyond me smh

[@MrRebelMan360]

I cannot believe that the Lock was the bad gimmick used in the WWE2k23 career mode lmao

[@AnthonyBarnes-vt8eu]

was thinking the same thing 🤣 they really said f it it didn’t work irl let’s try in a video game

[@palpatinerocks3260]

And also that the gimmick was intentionally horrible😂😂

[@jackadams3878]

"vince said it was the stupidest idea he'd ever heard of" a sentence that means nothing when you consider this is the same guy who wanted to run storylines where first he, then her brother, was aurora's father

[@JM1993951]

Whose brother? Aurora’s brother? Or someone not mentioned?

[@Cremig]

Or that sentence means a lot, when you realise what ideas Vincent had ^^

[@AL7249]

Ohhh lol I was like who the fuck is Aurora. I thought he meant Stephanie but yeah I get it now. Should've probably just said Stephanie's daughter lol

[@hiidkwhattoput1116]

The thing this isn’t the first time he pitched an incest angle

[@john-olivierlukama1548]

When you think about it, for a guy who pitched the idea that he slept with her own daughter and was the father of her baby, if Vince of all people is telling you that your idea is stupid, you know there's something wrong with you.

[@RustyShackleford101]

Hirohito was the Emperor, not just a General.

[@ryansykes859]

Yo my man Rusty i boiled some Mountain Dew for ya, also i left a pack of smokes out for ya

[@HoV326]

And wasn't it Hideki Tojo that was the general?

[@supachef_dmoney_4]

@@HoV326 That is correct sir

[@justinburmeister6316]

I was gonna post the same comment. Glad I saw this one first.

[@michaelbreen7865]

@@HoV326 Not just the general, but also the Prime Minister and Minister of War, among other political and military titles.

[@joshbetz618]

"So when I was eating fish n chips, while drinking tea, while watching the wwf on the Tele" has got to be the greatest British sentence ever lol. Great video as usual!!

[@GCAbleism158]

I mean none of the things mentioned are British.

[@jeffshirey8768]

Tele! Lol

[@jeffshirey8768]

It's classic.

[@donaldmacauley4571]

@@GCAbleism158 that comment made me do research to find out that you’re ....totally correct! Everyday is a school day

[@everydaydubs1713]

"...as a youngster."

[@DJDoubleCee]

Vince being the father of Stephanie’s baby?! Now that sounds extremely disturbing. I’m glad that storyline never happened.

[@christhornycroft3686]

But believable. That’s what’s really disturbing about it. The Levesque-McMahons are weirdos.

[@StageRight123]

@@TheDarkVampire666 Yep. That story wasn't an open and shut one immediately after the first rejection.

[@dabs.47]

@@christhornycroft3686 how’s HHH a weirdo?

[@btf_flotsam478]

You mean, it sounds like a WWE storyline?

[@RandyOrtonrulez1000]

@Bo Hill I mean Mark Henry’s whole sexual chocolate thing, the silverback gorilla, and his love affair with an elderly Mae Young which led to Mae giving birth on live tv to a hand, and a decade later the hand is all grown up and shows up on raw, yeah WWE storylines should never be taken seriously, EVER:))!! But with the Stephanie baby storyline I would think Vince was from Alabama or someplace down south, because that is absolutely GROSS 🤢 🤮 😷:))!!

[@moldyhotdog4749]

The Lock could have worked as a one time thing. Christian would definitely be able to pull it off in a situation like he was put in a tag team with the Rock for one night

[@alanguages]

Christian could just have used a bald cap to emphasize it was a joke. Similar to the satire segments from the show.

[@everydaydubs1713]

If that had happened, Captain Charisma would've buried The Great One without even trying. We'd all be here all these years later like "Dwayne who?"

[@TehJew22]

And then in WWE 2K23, The Lock 🔐 became a thing. 😂

[@dylanthebiguy]

Hmmmmmmm the Rock and lock connection 🤔

[@optimus2008]

Well, it worked in a video game.

[@EmmaBonn96]

I heard about the idea of Heidenreich to be booked as a cryogenically frozen nazi, I didn’t know he was going to be booked with Heyman Noted Jew

[@sweetjoey2]

that must be why mr mcmahon left the room. even he knows they'd get booed and get everybody pissed

[@martinputt6421]

@@sweetjoey2 You know an idea is horrible when even Mcmahon says no it's a step too far

[@RandyOrtonrulez1000]

Not only a Jew, but a Jew who’s mother survived one of the most infamous concentration camps aushwitz birkenau:))!!

[@ddcs0s]

Yeah that whole idea totally didn't have lawsuit written all over it

[@krasskswg]

Hirohito wasn't a "general" in Japan. He was the Emperor during World War II.

[@FozzQuaker]

I also remember hearing something about Vince actually had an idea of selling HHH and Stephs marriage on Pay-Per-View... The man is both an idiot and a genius at the same time...That man could give Psychologists a whole careers worth of work

[@tempestfennac9687]

It may have been worth paying to see it for Michael Hayes' drunken singing. :P

[@MatthewKonvict]

“The Lock” is the men’s side of my career on wwe 2k23 🤣 😂 🤣

[@dougtieman2877]

To be fair. the second attempt of the XFL was less gimmicky and more football focused, therefore more successful. The pandemic ruined that one.

[@nickhalbert3765]

"The Lock" was your character in WWE2K23 lol

[@tamzidmohsinkhan3333]

Lol imagine if Vince & Stephanie storyline would've happened 😂

[@goathippo93]

I literally went “nazi heidenreich has to be on the list right”

[@Hausbrauen]

"A Jim Morrison-type character for Edge would've been 30 years behind the times" -- I don't suppose you watched much WWE *10 years later, when they actually went through with this idea, and still use the gimmick to this day??* 😂

[@gabepollock1641]

Honestly the only thing that bothers me about John Morrison’s gimmick is the entrance music. A fine song, sure, but it’s played by a group called the Stonefree Experience, and it’s meant to copy the style of Jimi Hendrix. Not The Doors, not Jim Morrison, but Jimi Hendrix. Why did they give an imitation Hendrix song to a Jim Morrison send up?

[@sjohn8729]

@@gabepollock1641 because its wwe, inconsistency is their thing

[@DukesMusic84]

They thought that EDGE couldn't talk? Wow, no wonder they can't find new talent. Edge's promos give me chills every time.

[@whaduzitmatr]

they also thought Stone Cold couldn't talk either that's why he was paired with Ted DiBiase at first

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

It was just Russo and it proves why Vince telling him no is why he didn't screw WWE like he did WCW

[@LandontheHedgehog]

2:25 Yeah. I smell a WWE 2K23 MyRise story

[@RichieBhoy11]

Funny how the lock has ended up being the story in the WWE game 😹😹

[@choppatracks8168]

i was looking for this lmao

[@joemomma3208]

How about making a video about 10 terrible ideas that have happened and still are happening!

[@adjuster57]

That would be almost impossible to come up with a top 10. It would be more like a top 200, and the video would be 6 hours long.

[@KDill29]

Joe Mamma, you get around huh? I see you everywhere

[@HoV326]

Uh... wasn't Hirohito the emperor, not the general? And wasn't it Hideki Tojo that was the general? As a WWII nerd, that made me wince a bit.

[@michaelbreen7865]

You're right on both counts.

[@fordman7775]

I’m starting to think that instead of thought provoking and quality stories, WWE creative is like people on dark corners of the internet who post edgy stuff just to get a reaction

[@KDill29]

You mean KZbin.

[@fordman7775]

@@KDill29 Honestly, KZbin isn't really that bad compared to other places on the internet I know of.

[@rumblebird9888]

Pretty much

[@dustinsteele3069]

"Don't ask me, I'm British." I had a good laugh at that.

[@KestrelOmega]

So many ideas that never, thankfully, saw the light of day... and yet, we still ended up getting the Katie Vick fiasco. Ugh..... my stomach....

[@jackadams3878]

"attempting to launch an american football league - twice - " xfl 2.0 wasnt a particularly bad run, but for covid. im not sure why people keep lumping it in with its forebear. if someone would launch a roller derby league that wasnt all about gimmicks and storylines, i'd watch that shit every week

[@Montaq_]

I actually got tickets to an XFL game like a week before the shutdown so I never got, and will never get, to go now. Shame, looked like fun.

[@mattcox8885]

@@Montaq_ You still might. The Rock bought it, and they're looking at a 2023 season.

[@tetristech9732]

@@mattcox8885 on the other hand isn’t the AAF eyeing up 2022? If they beat the XFL to the bunch they’d probably have way better talent

[@whoeckum]

Yea 2.0 was actually doing well, but their 2020 launch is just that. It was 2020

[@hiidkwhattoput1116]

Ngl I lowkey enjoyed the XFL games last year

[@killingragethrowback]

Oh god, Mcmahon had John Cena in mind before Cena was even in the WWE! It's a good thing Hall shot it down.

[@Nick_C1997]

Apparently Shane was unaware of the Stephanie storyline idea until someone asked him about it a couple years ago Shane apparently said he would’ve been fine with it

[@rickyrosay33977]

He even said "my sister's hot I wouldn't have mind it" the McMahons are far from normal 😬

[@3sguitar]

Top 10 Honors given to a wrestler. Examples: Lesnar beating the streak Sammy Guevara getting the opening match when AEW went live.

[@MikeMajora]

Last time i was this early, half the roster was still employed

[@ms.trishs6481]

👍🏿

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Technically half the roster is always employed.

[@robertclark2253]

Vince obviously never learned from his dad that pissing off organized crime isn't a good idea . Vince Sr had Lou Albano and Tony Altimore as The Sicilians complete with Mafia costumes and being pursued by a tag team known as The G Men until he had a visit from the actual Mafia and was forced to tone the gimmick down . In British wrestling there was a wrestler called Alan Kilby who was actually deaf and this was incorporated into his gimmick .

[@cvilledoula]

Haha The Change Of Hogan's Theme Lmao So Great!!

[@liamevans9815]

"Terrible Muta'd ideas"... I see what you did there, Pacitti, you sly dog you!

[@kingofsting19]

Scott Hall could have done that G.I. Joe gimmick pretty well. He could even keep the slick hair and toothpick, play it as more like a Full Metal Jacket kind of G.I., and it probably would have killed.

[@adambedard8641]

The fact that Razor Ramon wasnt WWF champion is down right criminal.

[@maeschder]

Hirohito wasnt a general per se, he was THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN. Also a frikkin war criminal. And more importantly, it was his actual name, not his title "Shôwa"

[@HDMS_Kingslayer]

Hirohito, Japans general?!? LOL Pretty sure he was more than that :D

[@PrizeJ]

Emporer, plus he isn't revered in Japan. Japanese people KNOW, that he was the reason there were bombs dropped on them during the war. They keep quiet about that part of history, and don't want to even think about it. I don't think Pachetti knows that though, I won't be too hard on him.

[@StageRight123]

@@PrizeJ Unfortunately, there are still many old generation Japanese people that still believe that Japan never committed atrocities during and prior to World War 2, and that the U.S. dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was completely an up front attack by the United States.

[@PrizeJ]

@@StageRight123 Well yeah, but those old ones were propagandized. I bet if there was a poll taken to see where the thoughts of older people that believe that lays, I think the numbers wouldn't be as high. I'm half Japanese and half Filipino, and I have been to Japan alot of times. I haven't heard too many of older generation that believe in the anti USA propaganda of they were attacked for no reason(though I know there are some that do exist), I have met older folks that didn't want to talk about it at all.

[@robjackson4050]

@@PrizeJ the only thing that is positive about him he is the longest reigning monarch ever but i don't see why he was allowed to reign so long and wasn't overthrown by his people

[@PrizeJ]

@@robjackson4050 Who knows man?

[@awesome6084]

To be honest, the McMahon family is really weird

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

2:10 WRONG!! Showa Tenno (Hirohito) was the Emperor. The country was run by Tojo Hideki.

[@mistformsquirrel]

This list is baffling... I mean I'm glad none of it happened (except maybe The Lock as a one off gag, I could see that maybe being fun once. But when has WWE ever known how to show restraint when something is fun one time?) - but holy crap.

[@panoskakkavas4022]

And guess who has an AWFUL storyline as a character in WWE 2K23'S My Rise .

[@kevins.hollis6433]

Top of the Morning "Bruhther"😂😂😂

[@liamhemstock2286]

Your going to read to responses and get confused a lot and that’s ok 😂😂

[@miss.laura.m]

That storyline was the main reason stopped watching WWE back in the day.

[@Billy_Carter]

I miss Vine. They should bring Vine back.

[@OutsiderLXIX]

VINE FOR HOF 2022 VINE STILL HAS IT.... CLAP CLAP.... CLAP CLAP CLAP 🙌

[@SirDBee]

Vine > Tout

[@PopeyeBjj86]

VINE IS GONNA KILL YOU VINE IS GONNA KILL YOU VINE IS GONNA KILL YOU VINE IS GONNA KILL YOU

[@nu-metalfan2654]

For those that don’t know plan B was to have Shane be the father of Stephanie’s baby, but that didn’t happen either. But about 4 years ago Shane was asked about this potential story on a Radio interview and said he wouldn’t of mind doing the story because he said he finds his Sister not, Lol. And tbh if I had a sister that looked like Stephanie I wouldn’t of mind either 😂

[@g-coalitionbrother1729]

And there goes the idea of Shane-O being the only sane McMahon...

[@tmwfte81]

#1 - Ross Tweddell being a WWE writer

[@edalder2000]

Baron Von Bava? I lost 40 family members at Auschwitz. So, I am aghast and my brain is broken. I just can't. So tone deaf that Vince himself walked out says it all.

[@youngdolo8]

There are so many layers. 😂😂 Pairing Paul Heyman, a Jewish man, with this character is only the tip. 😂

[@orinanime]

I could totally see Scott Hall playing a GI Joe type. He'd be the next-gen Sgt Slaughter

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

2:09 Hirohito was Emperor of Japan, grandfather of current Emperor Naruhito. He was not the "general" - You are thinking of Tojo who was shot by the allies after WW2. There was indeed a wrestler called Tojo - Tojo Yammamoto - for many decades in the US in the territories era.

[@neptunebartender]

Okay but why is Adam clearly in the stock footage of a business meeting at 0:50 ?

[@deepprogression1127]

"Doer of pretty much everything there was to do"... I expected a picture of Lita at that moment... Almost disappointed ^^

[@rogerhage7392]

They have sometimes run out of ideas I love how austin goes off script and creates feuds and he runs with it

[@JustinEvitable80]

A few minor ones: Bret Hart was going to get a cowboy gimmick at first. Many years later, another pitched idea was Owen going to have an affair with Debra.

[@KeepGaming129]

Without watching the video first. Number one has to be Vince's pitch to turn Stephanie's REAL pregnancy into a storyline with Vince being the father....

[@mikeattard3543]

it's on the list

[@mrghost3088]

You know what would be hilarious? Imagine you're someone who wants out of WWE, but they won't release you. Stash a megaphone under the ring. Then when it's time to come out and talk, grab the mic, and start yelling FUCK FUCK FUCK. Knowing they'll turn it off, reach under the ring, grab the megaphone and continue. I'll bet they'd release you then. Plus it would definitely be remembered.

[@sherrilufflee]

Hulk O'Hogan *Lights go down, the crowd begins to rumble, over the PA...* COMEOUTYEBLACKANDTANS

[@MasterSartorius]

Baron Von Bava... I'm surprised Vince didn't let that one ride.

[@Kant3n]

3:27 Things that Vince hasn't said in decades for 200.

[@PirateDrive]

It's a little disturbing that it seems for a good 5-10 years someones fallback idea in the creative team was 'why not incest?' Ken/Ryan Shamrock, Beaver Cleavage, Vince/Steph, Paul/Katie-Lea Burchill...

[@stewartmcrae8007]

It is not someone in the creative team that suggested it it's Vince McMahon who wants it

[@sparrow420500]

That one it with Melina is my all-time favorite Bautista moment! He never said he would call off the match, so never technically lied. He did imply he would call off the match, but Melina is the one who made that assumption and agreed to bang big Dave. After the deed had been done ( which apparently only took the length of a commercial break, because they were finished when they came back from the break) you still went out and kick their asses anyway! FUCKING LEGEND!!

[@Gamesta100]

Guess Batista was a 1 pump chump lol

[@IdkANiceName999]

based on a real story

[@matthewjohnson8217]

#9 there is video of someone working backstage at the time saying the king of Japan did not like the idea after hearing about the promo... this then lead to them saying "we in the back were like we didn't even know Japan has a king... Vince was like They do and we pissed him off"

[@ShutUpBubi]

Baron Von Bava is an awesome idea and wrestling villain pitch, just not sure how easy it would've been for him to get a large fanbase tho lol

[@jerryborths6307]

As someone else mentioned, Hirohito was the emperor of Japan, not just a general. And the idea wasn't shot down by anyone in the company. They actually aired a vignette for the character, and then a representative from the Japanese government called them and said that if they went through with it they would be banned in Japan.

[@HoV326]

It was Hideki Tojo that was the general, right?

[@TeamDeXtreme]

Wasn't there another popular scrapped idea in the late 2000's where John Cena was rumoured to be returning as a masked luchador "Juan Cena"?? 😂😂😂 I'm sure I even remember WWE themselves mentioning it at some point lol

[@kieranwalsh5779]

He did the Juan Cena gimmick at a couple house shows after Nexus had him fired. Kind of a Mr. America thing.

[@TeamDeXtreme]

@@kieranwalsh5779 ahhhhhh I see.... vaguely remember it lol I knew there was something to do with a "getting fired" angle

[@SsnakeBite]

I'm shocked that no less than three of these idea not only weren't Vince's but that he actively opposed them.

[@YourAverageFan]

To be fair, the XFL was working before the pandemic.

[@happyChappy96621]

I can already see Bruce Prichard pitching the Lock to Christian. That’s the shit he finds funny.

[@tamzidmohsinkhan3333]

Edge is the G O A T

[@mistformsquirrel]

Given this list I'm surprised they didn't consider booking him *as* a goat. Or at least attracted to them.

[@valyahmadi]

That title is probably going to John Cena or the undertaker but edge is definitely top 5

[@jeremywilliams5141]

How about when they were going to name Steve Austin " Chilly McFreeze" instead of "Stone Cold"? "Chilly McFreeze" sounds like a dessert you'd order at McDonald's, or one of Ronald McDonald's friends. Or how about when they wanted Sgt. Slaughter to burn the American flag during his Iraqi sympathizer run?

[@g-coalitionbrother1729]

@@MazeDaGr8 Somebody should've used one or two of those in a promo thinking they were clever and mocking Austin, only for him to shut it down both on the mic and by kicking their ass. Then again, in those days they did just fine even without such self-referential humor...

[@dvsmufc81]

Pedantic note Adam, Hirohito wasn't Japan's general in Ww2, he was their deity like Emperor, and had almost no military power at all.

[@lashawnjordan1336]

I am glad that British Hulk Hogan didn’t happen! I am glad that deaf Edge didn’t happen

[@achimsinn6189]

The fact that Vince McMahon acted as the voice of reason in some of those cases is telling a lot about past WWE creative.

[@p1nazza]

While red headed comedian Matt McCarthy was a writer at WWE he jokingly pitched a storyline to the writers room where he would portray Sheamus' deadbeat brother Lameus who was there to mooch off his brother and constantly got in arguments backstage that would lead to Sheamus wrestling matches he didn't want to, the writers all laughed it off before Brian Gerwitz pleaded with McCarthy to never explain it to Vince because Vince might have done it

[@georgewhite8242]

Is that what I think it is in the thumbnail??

[@Cultivation420]

Hirohito was the emperor of Japan during WW2. He wasn't a general. And crazy enough, it turns out that he wasn't divine either.

[@joewiggins2905]

They failed to mention Vince's idea to have an evil architect wrestler named "Bill Ding". It's true. And Disco Inferno reportedly had an idea in WCW to have shape shifting Martians kidnap & take the place of Chris Jericho, Madusa, Mike Tenay & others.

[@djlarrybird235]

Yeah, no one bats 1000...except Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig of course

[@damiendemented9399]

Now instead of it being a real gimmick for a real life superstars it's forced on your male character in WWE 2K23

[@jackadams3878]

um, hirohito was their emperor

[@robertblack2752]

Hirohito was Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989, he was not a general.

[@barryparker4733]

You will NEVER forget the name of....... Goldust

[@ssjup81]

Wow, I completely forgot about the XFL reattempt. Also Hirohito (Showa) wasn’t the one in charge of the troops, he was the Emperor. Longest reigning one in the country’s history (1926 - 1989). It would come across as terribly disrespectful. December 23 is a national holiday for his birthday. I looked forward to it when living in Japan. ^^’

[@brownsamurai3070]

2:07 - Hirohito was the Emperor of Japan, not a General.

[@Carlitonsp1]

Didn't the Christian/Rock idea transform into Christian referring to his fans as 'The Peeps' as his version of 'The People'.

[@SheriffOutlaw]

i'm cryin' over the thumbnail! The Lock! Just Hell No!

[@jordymares6758]

Christian "The Lock" Cage

[@SheriffOutlaw]

@@jordymares6758 😂 I can't! I can picture it!!

[@nintendonation1257]

To be fair the XFL probably would have been better the second time if COVID didn’t happen, they would have at least finished the season

[@theyakaflocka]

Why did they show a picture of Mr America when they were talking about Hulk Hogan? Those are clearly two different people

[@nixda9326]

it says something if even Vince thinks its a stupid Idea.

[@MrBrownsugar85]

Kinda insane how a bunch of these came from the ruthless aggression era lol

[@billycross1798]

There should be a character named "Mark Skids", his finish maneuver would be "the Mark of Death" where he pulls out a pair of underwear with poop on them, and covers his opponents face, and they gag, and choke from the smell, and then pass out.

[@madmarx7543]

Pat Patterson did that in 2000 lol

[@kevindouglas5333]

Pretty much tells you all you need to know about Vince that he wanted a incestuous story line

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

And how messed up the frozen Nazi angle was by his reaction

[@rizzcs6018]

Imagine offending Vince so much you get fired, and it wasn't for something stupid like sneezing.

[@thesprock5270]

Vince is so weird

[@KingCanada]

I don't think "weird" is the right term. He went past weird a LONG time ago.

[@ProgrammedForDamage]

My initial thought; "only ten huh?"

[@rogerhage7392]

Austin beating up micheal cole after what cole said in an unclassy mannor was brilliant their were a few bad ones played like vince and trish stratus was a bit odd

[@TheFriendlyWeirdo]

Vince McMahon is truly an enigma.

[@1223steffen]

He is a pathetic human being

[@GenghisKool]

WWE did end up pairing Heidenreich with Heyman, but the weirdest it ever really got was on-camera, non-consensual sodomy. Umm.

[@dennisfortner9641]

The number 1 sounded a lot like Captain America theme from Marvel Comics. Marvel Comics would of sued over copyright infringement. See...Captain America was frozen after WW2 in order to be revived in the modern time. So...WWE was lucky they never did this gig because Marvel Comics would of owned WWE.

[@WowieZoë]

Ngl, I think it’s just as weird to see a fake Cuban duking it out with Shawn Michaels in a ladder match as a fake G.I.

[@weimaj]

I think we can all agree we did naz- You know what, no. Screw the pun.

[@jedshaffer5956]

Considering John Morrison would do a Jim Morrison gimmick several years later and make it a success, not sure why it would be “behind the times” in the late 90’s. Also, there was talk that Baron Von Bava was, at one point, supposed to debut alongside Hirohito and do an entire WW2 Axis powers stable.

[@darkdude521]

Crossed the point from "Outdated" to "Nostalgic" I guess? Somethin' like that. Plus he looks a fuckton like Morrison, admittedly.

[@mikeattard3543]

Minus the Paul Heyman pairing, the Baron von Bava idea sounds exactly like something Vince would have considered in the 80's & early 90's. I mean, Iron Shiek, Nikolai Volkoff, a turncoat Sgt Slaughter, it's right in his wheelhouse. AWA also had Colonel DeBeers, so this idea might have been pushed through if it had come along a little earlier and didn't suggest pairing a Jewish manager with a recently-thawed from-cryogenic-state Nazi soldier 🙄

[@jpgaltonscratch]

yalll the lock WWE 2k23