Otunga is absolutely awful, and that JR should compare him to The Great One is a clear sign that JR is overdue for retirement. Rock like characteristics? Really, Jr? Really? I would rather watch grass grow than Otunga wrestling for entertainment. Pushing him because he is Hollywood, well connected to the mainstream media just for the extra attention is really blasphemous to wrestling in general. I mean, does the WWE really need to sink that far down just for a few more fans? Daniel Bryan, Justin Gabriel, Heath Slater, and Wade Barrett have enough talent to completely eclipse anything Otunga could ever hope to be, and that now. Imagine what guys like Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan can be like in a few years? As for Otunga? The man is too old to become anything special in the ring now. As he even said so himself. Everyone has years on him of training, some may even have a decade of training on him. The dislike I feel for Otunga and have seen from most people is somehow being mistaken for heel heat but is in reality a simple disdain for the guy's overall suckiness factor. I haven't seen anyone suck this bad since... I don't even have anyone to compare him to. He is so awful he is in a league of his own. I'd rather see Michael Tarver as WWE Champion than this guys as a champion of anything more than his getting his arse out of wrestling, leaving it to the people who actually aspire to wrestle, and not just find a new means for showing off. Otunga is a reality television star, a 21st century form of entertainment that serves to entertain only people with serious psychological issues. He is no wrestler. Never was. Never will. And if the WWE pushes him any further than NXT, it will be yet another mistake.
The only comparison you can make between The Rock and Otunga was that they are both shitty wrestlers. The Rock's delivery is way better and he has something Otunga will never get... Charisma. Even Steve Blackman and Lance Storm had more charisma than Otunga has. But, we both know they're going to push the hell out of Otunga. We know they're going to make a champ out of him. I hope they figure out what a loser this guy is before they give him the WHC or WWE title.
Here is the recipe on how to be David Otunga....
1) Take a massive amount of steroids and eat a fuck load of food while going to the gym. I'll admit the man is very strong and I'm not going to accuse him of juicing or using prohormones, but he's beyond what most people's natural genetics will take them.
2) let a bee sting you on the tongue so you get that almost lisp-like speech Otunga has.
3) Forget everything you might've learned in wrestling school. If you don't make the Ultimate Warrior look like Dean Malenko in comparison, you're not resembling Otunga's in-ring ability.
4) Get a D-list celebrity pregnant. And constantly use that as your means of marketing yourself. In fact, he's worse than people who live off their father's shadow. His claim to fame is that he has sex with a D-list celebrity who wasn't hot to begin with. He's the Kevin Federline of wrestling.
5) Don't have anything interesting to say. If you don't annoy the fans in to checking out what's on TNA, you're not like Otunga.
6) Get a shitty haircut and really lame goatee. If you can have words shaved in to it, all the better.
7) When you talk about going to Harvard law school in promos, as an attempt to get you over, use real bad English immediately after so that you can A) Make Harvard look bad for admitting a dunce or B) disingenuously show you're still part of the "urban" crowd.
Follow these simple steps and anyone can be David Otunga.