I don't think I need to get technical with this. Seriously??? Big Rob!? Right, because everything about Big Rob screams X- Division wrestler. Are you kidding me? I didn't like it when Joe was X-Division champion for the same reason (and that's not because of Joe either, it's because he belonged higher up anyway) This guy is clearly a Heavyweight, and should be fighting amongst the Heavyweights.
X-Division guys are typically cruiserweights who wrestle a fast-paced, high flying style. Guys like Alex Shelly, Chris Sabin, A.J. Styles, Daniels, Consequences Creed, Black Machismo, Eric Young. These are the types of wrestlers who do X- Division stuff. Not Big Rob. That guy is so big he probably can't even reach around to wipe his own ass, and you expect me to buy him as a competitor for the X-Division title? I don't care who the champ is. I don't care if it IS Amazing Red, Big Rob should lose. He doesn't even belong there.
His character seems like he should be butt-buddies with Scott Steiner or something ok, not some jacked up British guy going for X-Division titles. I think he is impressive looking enough that if you did something else with him he could be successful. The problem is that you have to find that character for him, the right way to package him and present him to the audience as a credible guy, that is a threat to the top talent in the company.
There is one other problem though, and that seems to be his abilities in the ring. From what I am hearing from all of you, and the few times I have seen him do anything at all in or out of the ring, he is less than mediocre and looks pretty stiff. That is ok for the moment because the guy can always improve. No doubt he is pretty new to the game anyways. As you could guess, Big Rob used to be a body builder/ personal trainer or something and tried to play a professional sports but couldn't cut it, and so now he has decided to try his hand at pro wrestling.
Looks like it isn't going too well so far, despite the fact he is with TNA. That is actually half of the problem. They don't know what to do with him. The muscle bound goon/ meat head leg breaker bit has been done to death. Don't make him go out there and act like a caricature of something like that.
I think that people should get a shot at being themselves for the most part. Let this guy just go out there as himself and see how the crowd responds to him. Obviously he would have to let on to being a heel or face to some degree, but instead of giving him some cheesy character or stupid gimmick, just let him go out there and see what he can do to make the fans react one way or another. I think that is how you find a persons real talent, and how you get the most out of someone.
Getting Back On Track. This guy has no business in the X-Division, and he needs repackaged anyways. This was not a good decision on the behalf of TNA and it's creative team or the leadership of TNA to let trash like that get thrown out there.
Here's another thing. People bitched big time back when Kevin Nash went on a crusade in the X-Division, so believe you better be bitching now! That's just another reason it was a mistake by TNA to do this. And to comment on the Nash thing again, at least that was Kevin Nash doing what he was doing in the X-Division. Now we are stuck with Big Rob.
Despite the attempts of you the masses to figure out why TNA did this, what logical reason they came to to rationalize this, and what they may do with the scenario? The thing is, that there IS no logical reason to do that. Also, whatever they attempt to do with it after the fact probably won't work well now because of Big Rob's involvement in the picture.
One Could only guess what is to come. We can say what we will about it and give our predictions, but in the end there's really no telling what is going happen with this. From the forecast however, it's looking like it's gonna' be rainy with a chance of shit storms all over the X-Division. That's too bad. They have too much good talent that they should and could push up in the X-Division to be putting up a guy like Big Rob.
