Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose- Script Their Introductions

[mikeyado]

I know there is already a 'FCW- who's next' thread, but this one is different. Ambrose and Rollins have both been on tour with Smackdown recently. Both are rated by management (Triple H) as the best on the roster in FCW and both are considered ready for the step up.

According to reports, HHH wants to have a storyline/gimmick ready for them both before they debut so that they have the best possible chance of flourishing, he doesn't want to just pitch them in as jobbers.

I have some ideas, for Ambrose, I think the crazed fan thing could work quite well. He has loads of charisma and his in-ring mannerisms can look genuinely derranged. I would have him turn up at ringside to watch a mid-card face (Bourne, Kofi, Dibiase)'s matches and have him turn into a stalker type who ends up attacking them when his 'advances' are spurned.

Rollins is a little more tricky. Other than a tag team, I'm not sure how I'd work him in because he is not so strong on the Mic. I will leave that to you folks.

So, my question is: Do you like the idea for Ambrose? How would you introduce these two up and comers? How do you rate their chances of success?

 

[TWJC: The Beginning]

I let Rollins piggy back Jericho. At some point down the line, Jericho cuts a promo about how he realizes he isn't going to be able to go much longer, he appoints Rollins as his protege. It's a seque into Rollins vs Punk because if anyone can carry a guy who can't speak, it's Punk. Not only that, but after being sandwiched into a feud with Punk and Jericho, if you don't at least learn how to cut better promos, you should probably reconsider your career.

Course this could backfire if Rollins doesn't get over at all but whatever, it's a hell of a shot.

Just a few quick promo vids in...Ambrose is Roddy Piper. Have him cut out, cut his "challenge" promo basically and I think he'd get over. I'm sold on him. Course with Ambrose's "ultraviolent" background, a quick and easy way to at least get respected is to let someone like Foley "make" him in some sort of brutal match. I don't think Ambrose is going to have any trouble getting over. Dude is constantly in character.

 

[rkoshouldvewon]

This is not my idea. It's one a friend of mine told me, but it was so good that I had to pass it on. It's for Ambrose/Moxley. I've tweaked it/added on some stuff (the backstory element)

You air commercials with Dean Ambrose petitioning and pleading his case to the general public for WWE to sign this hard working indie guy. It should be low-fi, handheld camera kind of stuff. The key here is the commercials do not air during the body of the show -- not before or after a fade into Raw/SD! After weeks or months (?) of airing the commercials, the crowds would start chanting for Ambrose. He eventually debuts on either Raw or a PPV as a babyface but QUICKLY turns heel by brutalizing whichever meaningful babyface (Cena, Punk, Orton, Sheamus...or Kofi).

So he's essentially tricked everyone by getting him signed, just to run rough shot and destroy. His first program would be with.. the dream would be with someone like Punk -- another indie darling. In this scenario, Ambrose is using the fact he is/was an independent wrestler. You can build a fake backstory that Ambrose and Punk were once best buds in the indies, but Punk left Ambrose high and dry, etc etc. You can tweak it whichever way you'd like but the premise being these are two guys who crossed paths.

My only nitpick for Ambrose is that he's kind of over the top with his gimmick/mannerisms. I dig it, but for the WWE it is out of place. Hey, maybe that would actually help him out more, but I can't imagine it going over too well.

As for Tyler Black... Man I don't know. His mic skills aren't the best.

 

[NegativeFeedback]

I would have them wrestle a dark match 15 minutes before the actual show and put on a 30-minute classic that keeps the audience on their feet. That's right, that means that the dark match will roll onto the show.

Monday Night Raw would start with Seth and Dean going at it 15 minutes into their match with Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler explaining to the audience that these were two rookies putting on a try-out match, but they're match has been so intense and competitive that it ran into the beginning of the show. The announcers give a little bit of background on them explaining that they have honed their craft all over the world.

Dean wins the match and at the end, Seth goes to shake his hand, but Dean turns away with a cocky attitude establishing himself as the heel. Later in the night, Matt Striker interviews them and asks them about how it feels to have had their match featured on Monday Night Raw and Seth just hopes that they get noticed by the higher-ups so they can join the Raw roster while Dean says that it makes no difference to him because he would have owned the try-out and immediately get signed to a contract anyway.

The next week, it is announced they were both signed as a tag team. This infuriates Dean who believes he is above being partners with Seth while Seth tries to make the best of it. In their first week, they work a fast paced match against the tag team champions, and at the end of the match, Dean steals the pin from Seth. Similar finishes continue in the following weeks, until they actually win the tag team titles and Dean mentions in an interview that Seth hardly did anything. He says that he does all the work and Seth is just riding his coattails. Seth finally snaps and confronts Dean about it, eventually going on to wrestle at the following PPV, hopefully SummerSlam. Seth wins his big match against Dean and they both move on to bigger main event feuds against the likes of CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.

 

[AnthonyM4]

Daniel Bryan is now calling himself a role model right? Well how about have Seth Rollins be someone that looks at Bryan as a role model. Bryan can cut a promo on how he is a role model and he can introduce Seth as someone who looks up to him and wants to be Bryan's protege. Tyler Black has said in interviews in the past that Bryan is one of his favorites and I'm an ROH fan so that's why I came up with this.

I don't know what I'd do with the other guy as I don't know much about him. Maybe vignettes to introduce him?

 

[AnthonyM4]

Here's another idea I have. On one episode of raw CM Punk is the general manager for the night. He decides to give the fans a treat by bringing in two new superstars who worked hard on the indies for years much like he did and he has them both wrestle each other that night on raw. Both of them have a great match, but then the following week Johnny Ace(God this guy is dreadful to look at and listen to!) fires them to spite Punk, but of course somehow they would come back. That gives Ace lots of heat for firing two new guys who put on a great match after getting endorsed by Punk.

 

[Fisheatppl]

I don't know too much about either guy, I don't/can't/don't know how? to watch FCW. (If anyone could clue me in that would be cool). But a lot of your idea's, while honestly they are mostly really cool (I really got down with the one where their match starts before Raw but rolls into the first 15 minutes), but they mostly all included the guys being Main Eventers within a couple months. Again I don't know them really (I know of/have seen Seth, probably have Ambrose as well but he escapes me), but is this really feasable? I mean a guy like Brock Lesnar only comes around once in a while to main event right off the bat, are these 2 ready for something like that?

The problem with creating a story for debuting talent, however, is that there really AREN'T any story lines that are happening below main event status right now. What is the "story" behind the IC title right now? Behind the US title right now? (yeah Ryder needs his revenge to get it back, but while he's gone whats happening?) Whats going on with the tag titles? What is going on even in the regular old mid card? I really like them as the tag team coming in with one a face and one a heel (I made a story kinda like that on WWE 12) but even if they ARE the story of the tag division, what happens after they break up? Seth Rollins fights Cody Rhodes for the IC title one time and then jobs to seamus? Again my thoughts are based off them not being ready for the main event. For all I know Ambrose is the next Lesnar and will fit right in on Raw or Smackdown by the time his debut story is over.

 

[BigThunder]

Start Ambrose as a fan who gets in Diabiase's face at a Dibiase posse party, then have him crash the parties on a regular basis. After awhile Dibiase hosts a party in the ring on Smackdown, Ambrose crashes it, and that really jump starts the feud.

Following this, WWE signs Ambrose, teams him with Regal as a manager/tag partner,and they feud against Dibiase/Kofi, or Dibase/A-Riley, under the name "the Dirty, Cheating, Lying, Twisted Bastards" (or "The Bastards" for short). Eventually (after many DQs and trading clean losses) the Bastards get the tag belts and establish themselves as Hansen/Brody style hellraisers, the likes of which haven't been seen in the tag division in years. Further down the road, Regal puts Ambrose over on the way to a singles program.

As for Rollins, he could be a wrestler who was signed to a developmental deal, says the wrong thing on his first night to Big Johnny, and finds that his deal is cancelled, thanks to legal shenanigans by Ortunga. Rollins refuses to say no, and sues for a match with Ortunga for a contract. After some swerves and wrong turns (including a match at the wrong time with Kane) he finally gets what he wants and his career starts in the E.