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Brett Mount wrote:

> Joseph W. Casey can see Paradise by rec.sport.pro-wrestling.moderated's 
> light:
> 
> }I, on the other hand, thought it was one of the most annoying things I'd
> }seen on RAW in a while. While Lance Storm may not be a genius on the mic
> }he's one of the better wrestlers on the RAW roster. If he wanted something
> }to snore through, anytime HHH is in the ring works for me.
> 
> I'm inclined to agree.

I'd rather see the meetings to lay out 3H's matches than the matches 
themselves.

> A wrestling company at the top of its game could probably get away with 
> calling one of its less colourful characters "boring" on
screen, and have 
> a chance of getting a good result out of it.
> 
> This, I suspect, will lead to Lance Storm trying to become more 
> "interesting" (very likely, given the state of Raw, by
forming a tag team 
> with Rico) which I fear will fail miserably, leaving Storm as pretty much 
> the character he is now.

Rico's new look is just too much too quickly with no explanation of any 
sort.  It screams out that the writers are just throwing stuff at the 
wall in the hopes that something sticks.  No thought to the future 
beyond the next week or two at all.

If they wanted it to work, promote it for a few weeks (with really quick 
spots; maybe showing the back of Rico in his new look) THEN have Rico 
come out as the mystery wrestler we've seen clips of for a few weeks, 
"oh my God, is that Rico?", and hopefully look good in his first match 
under the new gimmick.

> The difference is that the fans will chant "boring" when he wrestles, 
> which can't be good for him, even if he agreed to this.

No.  Like I said, this might work if it provoked Storm (and Cade, for 
that matter) to do something about it on *THAT* show to prove it wrong.

Michael


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