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Wildwood wrote:

> Finally...  Michael  has come back to
> rec.sport.pro-wrestling.moderated...
> 
> 
>>Read a report in the Wrestling Observerthat Brian "I've got
comedy in my 
>>soul and I simply MUST let it out!" Gerwitz' ultimate plan for Lance 
>>Storm is to create an "Odd Couple" tag team with someone who isn't 
>>"boring" and who keeps trying to educate Storm, who just
can not get it 
>>to save his life.
>>
>>Uh.  Yeah.
> 
> 
> 
> Well, we all know how well it worked for Steve Blackman and how he was
> the MOST POPULAR superstar before his injury...
> 
> Team Storm with the Snowman!  HEAD CHEESE part II!  Who-hoo!
> 

I don't think Gerwitz was a wrestling viewer before getting the job as 
head writer of RAW, so he probably missed that.  And I enjoyed Head 
Cheese.  But it was done in a totally different way.  Snow and Blackman 
were put together as a team and the "Storm keeps coming up with whacky 
ideas" gimick just sort of developed while Blackman's response was 
rolliing his eyes.

This purported tag team is coming out of teaching the fans that they CAN 
chant "boring!".

>>Off topic, Gerwitz refused to go on a field trip to OVW to meet the 
>>people out there, get to know what they can and cant' do, what their 
>>current gimmicks are, etc., as it was to be on a day off.
>>
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> 
> Typical.  Besides, the only reason ANY writer goes to OVW is to find
> out what's been done with a talent since they began there so that they
> can write them in a opposite direction that they aree unused to.

Actually, I think that's what the trip was supposed to help stop.  After 
they put two guys Cornette had built a main event feud together as the 
Basham Brothers, I think they're trying to be a little more sensitive to 
OVW.

Michael


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