Funk, Will it Keep Rolling? (Brodus Clay)

[Jack-Hammer]

Brodus has gone as far as he's going with his current character. It's just not going to work. Brodus' character is a very, very very kid friendly, mostly, comedy character and those are not guys that you generally see heaving up in the upper mid-card or main event scenes.

I don't think we'll see the Funkasaurus stick around for all of 2013. Eventually, I expect Clay will be repackaged. I will say this though: Brodus Clay is someone that's shown he can be far more than the cookie cutter, stereotypical monster that a lot of people seemed to want him to be. The Funkasaurus character has shown that Clay can very much overcome whatever limitations that some people imposed on him. In the long run, I think this character will ultimately prove to have been a good point in Clay's career. He took what he was given and has done that absolute best he can with it. And you know what? All in all, he's gotten over pretty well. As much as it galls people to admit it, the Funkasaurus could be very good for Brodus in the long run.

[SaveUsCMPunk]

Poor Brodus Clay rarely seems to even make it on TV and up until recently, all he did was dance and job. Right now we get to see him wrestle the likes of JTG in matches which I feel are a bit too competitive. (JTG is a jobber and always will be. He should be totally destroyed by someone like Brodus.) Sure Brodus isn't progressing, but at least he isn't jobbing. (Which makes me happy since I'm a fan of his.)

He never really recovered after losing his first match against Big Show. (A pinfall loss after a failed bodyslam attempt?! WTF is this ****?) Big Show knocked him out as he was helped to the back and Brodus never even attempted to get revenge! Then there were more losses to people like Antonio Cesaro and Heath Slater. If Brodus was around twelve years ago, he would've been a midcard champion. (As much as I loved the Attitude Era, the IC title changed hands way too often back then.)

So what to do with him? I guess like everyone says, turn him heel. I thought he was a pretty good heel in NXT and I enjoyed watching him squash jobbers on Superstars. (Plus his heel theme late last year was bad ass.)

[Kelso1ftw]

He was great at first, I thought it was hilarious in the fact of how they built it and this is what they debuted. I just agree with a lot of people saying he got stale and overall hasn't changed in the 3/4 of the year he has been on TV with the gimmick. A good heel turn would be great for him right now, and I think could make a good run with a mid-card title, but him with the WHC or WWE title? I don't think so. We need to see what he can do as a talker and how he can hold a feud before we can start with that discussion.

[HBKistheHOF]

Well first off I never see Brodus Clay being World Champion as the Funkasaurus. I think there is a reason WWE hasn't even given him a US title shot. IMO he has never been all that special & hasn't really improved much at all since NXT.

I think WWE just likes him for his size & different look he has. But I don't see WWE taking advantage of his size. & while it would probably get boring to have just another dominant big guy, I don't see any other way he will ever become champion of anything.

But for some reason I don't really see WWE wanting to change his persona any time soon. I think WWE likes him as the Funkasaurus & even if he appears to be doing nothing in WWE, he has a fun song & dance number & get's a small reaction no matter what because of the intro to his song with the "Ladies & Gentlemen...".

So I honeslty just see WWE using him like a much more underrated & underappreciated Junkyard Dog. Where he will never win any titles or really advance because WWE doesn't see much more potential in him but they will continue to milk him for every penny he is worth, making all the "What the Funk?" shirts they can before releasing him & making him extinct.

[JB BlaZn]

matter of time before it got stale. no one really cares about brotus anymore. they say that not every big man needs to play the monster role which is true. but at this point, i dont see any other option. yea the kids dig it and in this day and age, maybe thats enough to keep the character around. but truth be told, it got stale...quick.

[DirtyD79]

The problem he's encountering now is he hasn't really done much over the past year. He's not in any real storylines. He doesn't have a feud or anything going on. They need to give him an actual feud.

[Fear&Loathing]

The biggest dissapointment in recent history. WWE hyped his debut up for weeks just for him to debut as a mockery. I think the monster heel would have been a much better way to get him over. There is still time just turn him heel and have him smash his way through all competition instead of dancing with it! No more mr nice guy Clay would work. He has the potential!