You are a pro wrestling promoter of a decently sized promotion somewhere in the south back in the early 1990s. One faithful day, an ancient malicious spirit visits your office. Thinking it's just a rib from the boys, you anger the spirit and it curses you. He puts Adam Cole on your roster and tells you that you have approximately a year to get him over with the crowd, otherwise he will come and kill you, then torment your bloodline for generations to come. How do you tackle this herculean task, especially in a day and age with no smarks and a predominately right wing audience?
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Make him cut his hair and have him be the manager of a big guy whose promos are too weird to cut it with a mainstream audience. He'll occasionally take bumps and maybe even have a match as a chickenshit manager who's forced into it by a stipulation, but his role would only to be there to make the big guys look bigger.
>Other companies have Cornette, Hart, Heenan, Heyman, etc. aka the best talkers of all time
>Okay, but our guy is ADAM COLE!
It's a decent idea on paper, but in reality would not go down well
this is actually how he should be booked
Cole can hold his own on the mic, it's his physique and matches that are cringe
Show me where he is anywhere near competitors at the time
good morning sirs
Vince was right, as usual.
Almost seems like a cop out to make him a manager.
kek this guy broke his ankle on a drop equivalent to one Rey Mysterio took on his entrance every night for 12 years.
Easy. Jimmy Hart v0.25.
this. more smaller wrestlers like him and mjf should just be managers. but then you can't be a yummy reddit tier shitter with 5 star matches
MJF is a great wrestler you moronic homosexual. Go slurp your slop.
if you're refering to me being a wwe piggie, then you're the moronic homosexual since i never brought it up and i don't like it either. rope yourself troony
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He didn't say he had to get over as a wrestler. Give him the Jim Cornette gimmick as a dweeby manager who talks about video games nonstop. That'd get heat in the south in the 90s.
Give him a troony gimmick and say that the company had to give him the womens belt to avoid a lawsuit. After a few months of him calling the fans misogynists and transphobes, bring in an Alyundra Blaze type to take the belt off him before he reveals he was never actually a troony so it doesn't count as a loss. Then have Vader squash him.
Give him the Mikey Whipwreck gimmick. Have him win a ton of matches against bigger guys that start off as flukes, but then he legitimately gets good at beating hosses.
Then have an actual small and talented guy with muscle beat the shit out of him, and have him lose his confidence, becoming a jobber again. You can go a bunch of ways from there.
king of the trailer parks gimmick. underdog beer drinker who worries about layoffs at the factory,
give him the Randy Bobandy gimmick and make him grow his gut out more
>in the south
>90s
Have him come out everyday dressed as an metrosexual urbanites, starts every match by either wiping his ass with the Dixie flag or a Dale Earnhardt shirt. Before the faces can beat his ass, his giga Black wrestler who he's managing steps in. He ends each match with "The South lost and the future is black, ADAM COLE BAYBAY"
The 1-2-3 Kid was over in the early 90's OP. I'd just give him that gimmick.
Sean Waltman was legit near 6' and would have towered over coles ass.
Yeah, and the biggest guys in WWF would tower over the biggest guys in your southern mud show fed too. So it all evens out.
Give him the Brooklyn Brawler gimmick
I would book him like Shawn Michaels
Either make him Ricky Morton or Jimmy Hart. Easy peasy.
Put him on steroids and make him Warrior's little brother
Mini Me gimmick is always dimes
The Spike Dudley of a hillbilly stable.
I'd have him go full pot belly AIDS midget and have a gimmick that he talks the most shit and thinks he's the biggest most cut total badass with the best body in the history of the world, they he gets squashed I'm every match. If I'm going to die I might as well have a laugh first.
>friendly manlet
>from Pennsylvania
>in the 90s
I'll just send him to Paul Heyman, man
Adam Cole would be totally accepted if he didn't look like a skinnyfat geek. Jesus christ. He'd look so dimes if he put on some muscle. I'm not even asking for Eddie/Benoit levels here, just something that doesn't make him look like such a pencil neck dork.
I just watched his match with Samoa Joe again last night, where Joe had to sell his pure strikes. Legit embarrassing.
>predominately right wing
Wrestling fans in the 90s were not right wing. They were blue collar working class normal people. The majority of whom would likely identify as centrists
Blue collar working class normies from the 90's would be considered literally Hitler today tbh
Feels good man
the music normies listened to in the 90s would be considered woke and gay today
kurt cobain supported trannies and rage against the machine were communists
To be fair Nirvana's actual fans that went to their gigs and listened to the albums were suburbanites and college kids, most blue collar guys maybe thought smells like teen spirit had a catchy riff but didn't like that they couldn't understand what he was saying.
Your thinking early to mid 90s when everything was fake and gay. I’m thinking late 90s to early 00’s when all was based
>kurt cobain supported trannies
source?
>and rage against the machine were communists
and now they tell you to listen to the government and take the vax
>ow do you tackle this herculean task
Make him a manager. The spirit didn't say anything about making him a wrestler.
What year Adam Cole? If it's 2017 Adam Cole I get him over as a Rey Mysterio kind of guy that comes back against the giant guys.
If it's 2018 onwards Adam Cole the task is insurmountable.
>get him over with the crowd
He is my new popcorn/hot dog vendor
Underrated. He should interfere in matches by asking the ref or wrestlers if they want something then he either gets double teamed and loses or fights back with underhanded concession stand tricks.
I send him to the best steroids guy I can find and give him a Bob/Crash Holly comedy gimmick where his body dysmorphia makes him think he's bigger than 95% of the roster
>torment your bloodline for generations to come
Awfully bold of you to assume anyone on Fhite is going to reproduce.
Go to the gym