Your Gimmick Ideas

[themazdaguy]

Here's another idea for a face: a surfer guy. Comes out with the total stereotypes going down (sandals, shell necklace, sunglasses, kind of long blonde hair)...his ring attire consists primarily of bathing suit looking stuff, has the typical surfer lingo like "that's rad" or whatever...hell you could even have him do moves such as the Surfboard, haha. Anytime he does a "splash" move, goes with a tidal wave kind of theme...could call one of his finishers "Surf's Up". Its kind of stupid but hell, you could have this cocky face type guy and he might get over.

Ermmm didn't WWE do this already with Rad Radford? I'm sure I've even seen WcW do this before and all 80's independents did it too. I can't remember exactly but Raven's Scotty Flamingo character was this too.

 

[danaconda]

Have DH Smith and Drew Mcintyre come back, and form a european Faction with Burchill and Katie Lea, and have regal back them, and give them unfair advantages, sorta a European Spirit Squad, as they would also double as henchmen for Regal. This would be a fine way to push all these young talented guys. Have the split come when DH Smith gets fresh with Katie Lea, and Burchill flips over it. Smith becomes a face.

Anti American - With a twist.

Yes, we have seen anti american. But what about a British Anti american? It would be easy to slate America from a British prospective. Say they are buying our companies, then driving them into the dirt, killing our culture by imnvading us with crappy music and even crappier tv shows(hell, even Raw can be classed as crappy these days). Say the Iraq war was started due to Americas greed for oil(may or not be true). Can slate the fact Americans seem to kill British soldiers a lot. And how theya re cowards for leaving the British to fight thier war. The list is endless.

I totally agree with the above two. Have Regal return doing a shoot/work promo about his "firing" from Raw. Regal talks about how he besmirched his proud British heritage and that he will never again let a lowley American ruin his good name. Onto another......


What if you bring back the idea of placing a bounty on someone with a kind of twist at the end. Have the face turn heel by "going crazy about who he can trust".

Start out with the heel getting tired of the face's challenge for the title or whatever. So the heel puts out the bounty. The face starts getting jumped/attacked dang near everywhere he goes and by dang near everyone.
Have him getting jumped in the ring, backstage, autograph signings, just everywhere. Have him in a tag match where his partner and both opponents
beat the crap out of him. Hell have even Mike Adamle take a shot, maybe that would get him off my TV and out of my head. Finally after weeks of not sleeping, always looking over his shoulder paranoia have him snap on someone.

 

[themazdaguy]

I totally agree with the above two. Have Regal return doing a shoot/work promo about his "firing" from Raw. Regal talks about how he besmirched his proud British heritage and that he will never again let a lowley American ruin his good name. Onto another......


What if you bring back the idea of placing a bounty on someone with a kind of twist at the end. Have the face turn heel by "going crazy about who he can trust".

Start out with the heel getting tired of the face's challenge for the title or whatever. So the heel puts out the bounty. The face starts getting jumped/attacked dang near everywhere he goes and by dang near everyone.
Have him getting jumped in the ring, backstage, autograph signings, just everywhere. Have him in a tag match where his partner and both opponents
beat the crap out of him. Hell have even Mike Adamle take a shot, maybe that would get him off my TV and out of my head. Finally after weeks of not sleeping, always looking over his shoulder paranoia have him snap on someone.

The bounty idea could work. I think it would suite a mid carder better then a top contender though. It would be a great way to get over the face and the heel. It would be nice to see Santino as the heel as he can talk and make this even more intresting. How about having the face be someone like CM Punk. I think they need to get him a little bit over with the mainstream public before he can even think about cashing in his money in the bank.

Santino can lose a few matches to CM Punk on Raw. Do his talking and get a major backing from someone, say Ted Dibiase. They can then put the bounty on CM Punk. Who ever injures CM Punk before whatever pay per view they are about to fight on gets 1 million dollars or something to the sort. Have CM Punk only fight midcarders and team with midcarders or rookies. This will get Punk over and make Santino even more hated. Have punk come out to the PPV all beat up and Santino fresh and strong. In fact, before the match at the PPV someone kicks the crap out of Punk backstage to make him even weaker for Santino.

That can set up Punks next feud as soon as he makes a "miracle" comeback and beats Santino. Santino can also get into a feud with whomever didn't get the job done.

Lots of potential with this idea.

 

[mork83]

It seems like Santino is only involved in gimmick feuds for now (Piper, Stone Cold, Maria) so I thought that he could bring back the European title. I know that has been done before with, I think, the TV Title in WCW.

Since he is billed from Italy, he could claim that he is the only person who should hold the title. It would never actually be recognized by the WWE as an active belt and whenever someone on the roster tried to get a match for it, Santino would point that out, but then do a promo saying how he is still the champion. Also, he could "defend" the title against guys who look like 80s jobber who are stereotypically from a European country.

Finally, someone could beat him for it and retire it (again). I was thinking until DH Smith was drafted to Smackdown he could've feuded with Santino for it, saying how his dad was the first champion and he is mocking the title he won. DH would compete for it only to get Santino to not have it anymore. That would've been a nice starter push for him.