Well its pretty interesting to see that some of you would like to see Kozlov in this position rather than Morrison.
Here's another one.
Kozlov does have a great look but he pretty shoddy in the ring as well as bad on the mic.
So were the majority of the ME'ers in the 80's.
Now he does seem funny because he messes up his lines a lot but he can be a pain when it comes down to serious promos.
I understand what you mean, but imo, he doesn't need to be able to give such promos in his current position, and when he was having his heel push a couple of years, ago, he didn't need to then either.
When i first watched Kozlov come down to the ring, with no music, no entrance video, just the spotlight and the angry scowl on his face, I was pretty much hooked from there.
'Wow, this guy doesn't even have entrance music, and not in the 'i know full well he's going to job for a week and then be gone' way.'
He delivered a promo in Russian, and followed it by a simple one sentence threat in English. I was hooked even further.
Everyone loves to bleat on about promo work these days. Does no one remember that guys like Kane and Umaga got over without ever saying a single word? In Kane's case, he didn't even give a proper promo until 2000. So that's 3 years where he rarely ever spoke, and if he did, it was like 2 sentences, if that, and that was as both a heel and a face.
So why is it now mandatory that Vlad Kozlov should be this super charismatic, articulate speaker? When guys worse than him i.e. The Sultan, never gave promos and were still given title belts to work with? Yet Kozlov's in a comedy tag team.
Instead of being used in the same capacity as say, Umaga, Sultan, masked Kane, or even an early Abyss, they've decided to give him the Kurrgan treatment. Lump him with comedy jobbers until it's not funny anymore and then fire him.
Kozlov could probably do more than we've ever actually seen, they just don't ever take a shot with the guy, which is stupid because his push in '08 was going perfectly until they decided to stop and dump him on ECW with Regal and Jackson of all people.
Utterly stupid, and a waste of a decent wrestler. Sheamus' push was stupid compared to Kozlov's yet he's been the champion twice, with the second fastest World title win in WWE history. Kozlov probably couldn't even describe the belt to you, having never been allowed anywhere near it except that one title shot, where shock booking determined the outcome.
Kozlov debuts, squashes jobbers, squashes mid-carders, squashes upper-mid carders, and then beats HHH, Jeff Hardy AND the Undertaker, SD's three biggest stars, and three of the biggest stars in WWE overall, one on one each, CLEAN, and then loses an EC match, loses to HBK, goes to ECW, beats the ECW champion clean in a non-title match, and then his name isn't relevant again until now.
Sheamus debuts on ECW, does nothing, comes to Raw, history is re-written to say he was never on ECW, he beats Jamie Noble up for like 3 weeks straight, wins a #1 contenders Battle Royal, wrestles Cena in a Tables match, where i don't think he actually hit more than 3 moves in the whole match, and won the title.
WHAT-THE-FUCK?
Debating and additional ranting aside, onto the questions at hand.....
I haven't watched RAW in months, but i'd honestly be more interested in Santino OR Kozlov fueding with Sheamus, than watching JoMo do anything to be perfectly honest.
John Morrison is the new Jeff Hardy. So that means he's got to jump off stuff for another 5 or 6 years before WWE consider him worth pushing for real.
Why do so many people keep saying 'He WILL be World Champion soon.....'?
Can you predict the future?
Do you work backstage in WWE?
Has any wrestling news publication said anything about WWE Creative wanting to use JoMo for any significant fueds or pushes anytime soon?
If the answer to all of these is 'no', yet you've posted somewhere that JoMo WILL be World Champion, than you're a fool. The fact that Melina and Miz have gone on to do more significant things than JoMo, despite being in WWE longer than
both of them, would suggest to anyone who can process logic, that he's not likely to become anything anytime soon.
And who was it that tried to defend him being a spot monkey, claiming that having a top rope finisher didn't make him a spot monkey?
What about moonsaulting off the turnbuckle with a ladder in his arms to the outside at WM24? THAT's what a spot monkey does.
OR, better still, more recently, jumping off the stage set during the Triple Threat Submission match at HIAC? THAT's what a spot monkey does. It wasn't necessary, it didn't help the match in any significant way except to start a 'this is awesome' chant, which was directed at the WHOLE match, not just JoMo, and it overshadowed everything else JoMo did in that ENTIRE match.
Will it help JoMo's career? Only if he's allowed to develop some kind of character during it's run. If he's just going to do run in saves and the GM's just going to announce matches, and he doesn't have a single interview with Grisham or verbal exchange with Sheamus, then no it won't do a damn thing.
Know why Kofi attacking Orton got him over so much? Because he showed character development and had significant mic time. From what i gather, Santino, Kozlov and Sheamus have been doing all the talking so far, and joMo hasn't said a word........ i'm just so certain that this fued will do wonders for him.... NOT!