Clear similarities from look down to gimmick.
Otunga has worse hair. But I'm satisfied for now.
Daniel Bryan, Justin Gabriel, and Wade Barrett can take their spots on the card. Thats just sarcasm, but do you really give a shit about Carlito, Chavo, and Kozlov to even bring them into the discussion?
Carlito sometimes (and only when he goes into "Voice of the IWC" mode), Chavo and Kozlov hardly ever. Certainly time I wouldn't miss if given to a rookie. MVP has a little more left in him than these guys. Not much, but a little.
In addition to his music sucking, I get creepies every time it hits the chorus.
There you go. And I agree with the second part. I'm sorry, could they have thought of a worse line to repeat than "I'm Comin'!"?
And jobs at those as well.
A job is a job. He's still able to carry his own in those matches. They aren't match of the year fodder, sure, but if you're gonna job you have to make the other guy look good. Otunga hasn't had enough time to develop, and simply can't do more but get mic heat while he works on his in ring stuff. And that sounds less like MVP's current spot and more like Carlito's or Chavo's.
As does most of the roster.
By that I meant on a national level, like MVP on "Are you smarter than a 5th grader", not just local newspaper and radio. Heel Otunga can't do that right now (unless he wants to look like AJ Styles pushing a video game the night of his big heel turn). And there's NO WAY Otunga can run face right now.
He doesnt have to. Hes being groomed, which you cant deny. When his grooming is done, who is going to be one of the main people left out to dry?
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. My issue isn't that Otunga may be replacing someone in the long run, but that the OP insisted that Otunga was brought in to replace MVP from the get go, which is incorrect.
If he was genetically incapable he wouldnt have made it this far.
Lol. No, I said "galacticaly", as is space and stars and cosmos. I used a fake word to describe how far from good matches Otunga is right now. But there have been worse guys to get over, so never say never.
The odds are always higher when you have a rookie wrestling. Who said hes going to work PPVs tomorrow? The fact is you cant deny he is being groomed to work with the big boys. When he is working with the big boys, guys like MVP will be jobbing to him, if hes even still with the company.
Most of the rookies, both in NXT and on the main rosters, have been doing this for far longer. Sheamus has been wrestling since 2002. Even if these guys still seem unseasoned or unpolished, they have likely shown that they don't drop people on their heads. Otunga just hasn't been doing this long enough to demonstrate that well enough. He's in the NXT class to give it some faux-star power, and because (I'll admit) he has a good measure of natural charisma. I don't deny that, like most rookies, the hopeful goal is turning them into tomorrow's stars. What I deny is the OP that Otunga was brought in to replace MVP, or somehow finish what MVP started as a gimmick. He's a hopeful noob like the rest of them, with the disadvantage of being less experienced. Not an impossible situation to get out of, if I may again use The Miz as an example.
I dont think he did a good job at it. Otunga has been on RAW 2 weeks in a row now.
To set up Batista vs Cena, and then to get squashed by Cena in the ring and Batista out of the ring. To be fair, his backstage segment with Batista was great, and I appreciate that he's able to poke fun at his status as a "celebrity". But when they were announcing the first NXT ratings, Bryan used his mic time to out of nowhere blast Otunga for being nothing else but a hanger on. Setting up a future angle with Bryan? Sure, good stuff. But it cut to the core of how serious most people should take him right now, which is not very serious at all. It took all the wind out of the thought that he might win this thing, at least for me.
I dont watch MTV/VH1/BET very often and I dont have Twitter but I knew who he was. Theres also the radio, music choice, the internet, casual television, etc.
Again, can't say I ever saw him on there for much of anything ever. And I read Gawker, some lefty gossip site that should have mentioned him at some point, right? I just never heard of him before this, and I can't really take for granted that he has some measure of star power. Is he a musician? Why else would I have heard about him besides who he's engaged to and a VH1 reality show?
Wait, so Michael Cole is lying?
Wait for it......Vintage Michael Cole.
No, its as Mr. & Mrs. now. The 1 other is their child.
Eww, he's bred? EWWW! Regardless, it's still her name before hers on the guest lists. Also, I don't think they've been married yet.
The same people who own VH1, own MTV and BET.
"The Real World" is slightly more credible than "I Love New York 2".
Note: They also own Nick, the bastards.
That remains to be seen now doesnt it? You first have to see signs of that, which I dont see. I do see signs of MVP fading away and Otunga getting a push though.
Fair enough, fair enough. If only, in another place, in another time, if this thread had been titled "David Otunga is here to replace ham & egger jobbers", instead of targeting only MVP...why, we might have been..........friends.