The Next Big Thing ?

With the Introducton of Brock Lesnar as the Next Big Thing in the WWF recently ,I cant help but think outting a tag like that on a wrestler is just asking for trouble .Lesnar does look awsome but who do you think will be the next big thing ?

Could it be any of the following ??

Edge
Christian
Helms
Kidman
Randy Orton
MAven (doubt it)


Who do you think ?

bombidol

The next big thing? Edge without a doubt, i think the lesnar next big thing should be really singled out as a gimmick and not a statment. Edge is one of the next big things, but Kurt Angle IS the future of the WWF, with rock legging it, SCSA being unhappy, Taker knackered, and everyone else just lacking in that "Something" Angle stands out amongest all.
But thats just in WWF, look to the indys for the future, seriously if you are into wrestling and i mean actuall wrestling not WWF sports entertainment, go to a tape trader and get everything you can featuring, Low Ki, Chritopher Daniels, Doug Williams and American dragon, without a doubt the bests workers on the planet without a contract. I can arrange a tape trader if anyones interested


Bomb

EL_Diablo

Brock Lenser may not be the next big thing but he is a really impressive wrestler. The physique, the strength, the sheer size of him. I mean think about what kind of power it must have taken to lift a 400 pound rikishi. But they'll probably just ruin him like they have so many others. Tazz as a commentator? Come on!

Well thats ture but Taz took that roll as a commentator as he can do that till he is old .You can only wrestle while your young and with the competition nowadays wrestler will be retiring younger .Taz was huge and its a shame not to see him in the ring .The same with Raven ,he died a death in the WWF .RhYno is good but an injury has halted his stride.The problem with the WWF is it rates wrestlers on their character and not their wrestling .

bombidol

its not even that, vince has this thing about creating superstars, he like to know that he can find the best in a wrestler and make you love him, that Rock for example, theres nothing about his wrestling that seperates him from the rest of the pack but he can talk, Vince made him. Stone cold was nothing before he got to the WWF so vince thinks he brought everyone around to him.
Now you take a tried and tested main eventer like RAven or Tazz even Mike Awesome and put them in the WWF, what happens? well vince didnt make them so they get buried, look at Booker T the man was a WCW world champion and where is he now ? fueding with Rikishi and other mid carders. Vince doesnt like being the one that didnt think of the gimmicks or make the main eventers so he destroys everything except what he has made to make his own look better.

bomb

Ph3n0m

Steve Austin was always something even before WWF, he was a fantastic tag team with Brian Pillman, and his battles against Steamboat for the TV title were always impressive. As well as his work in ECW. People say he was nothing before WWF simply because most fans these days have short term memopry syndrome (ask em what happened last year and they will remember, ask what happened 10 years ago and they will say "huh?"). Austin was always a fantastic competitor, noadays he is merely a shadow of his former self (i had hoped for better things after his superb match against Benoit/Angle but I was sadly let down)

McMahon has always gone for the big impressive guys, while people like Tazz, etc, are left behind. Raven has had one decent match in WWF and that was against Rhyno last year at Backlash, a fantastic Hardcore match, and that is because he and hyno have worked well in ECW and knew how to entertain the crowd.

Which brings me to my next (invalid) point - what is the deal with that WWF hardcore matchs - tables, trashcans!!!! Er have none of the heard of what ECW did for hardcore, maybe they should ask for ecw-ites what hardcore really means.

I will say one other thing aswell - the womens division - pure crap. No decent angles, no decent wrestling (too many matches are just thrown together). If you want women wrestling - look at any Japanese women's division - they are truly hardcore

bombidol

I agree with you on Stone cold i was just stating what mcmahon thinks. I know vince is big into his big men, but by that rational then people like Mike Awesome, Raven, Rhyno, Lance Storm and a few more, who are all 6" or over should have gotten some kind of push, but they didnt, Rhyno was the only one to get something near a push and thats just because his gimmick is so old school, and vince cant get his head around anything new (Look at the new shoot style matches with Low ki , Chris Daniels, American Dragon) All trainees in the dev camps have been told to steer away from this style, yet it was ECW that made these style of matches famous (Tajiri, Guido) And everything you see in modern Big time pro wrestling (WWF) is based on what ECW made.


bomb

I like the hardcore style but its usless to watch on smackdown as it is cut to ribbons .About vince liking his big men i think the roster split was designed in a way for the smaller guys to put on a better show by keeping them all on Smackdown .

bombidol

oh yeah big time, smackdown will be the home to the cruiserweight division, they had to do something to make smackdown a bit more exciting to watch, just wait for Rey Rey!!!


bomb

Yeah Rey should be cool ,I was a big fan of WCW everyone of his matches were great .He was one of their preformers that could always deliver a good match .I miss WCW,it was like watching outtakes there were som many mistakes .Miss Sting and Vampiro
and the face paint .The WWF has no more painted faces .

bombidol

Vampiro has always been one of my favourite workers

bomb

Yeah im a big Vampiro Fan ,if your putting a show together i might be able to get him over

bombidol

we looked into getting him over, too expensive, he has to be flown in from Mexico and their flight prices are ridiculus. why you know the bloke or something?

bomb

If you can give me details of your next show,i will see what i can do.

dave_l

As regards the ex-ECW wrestlers like Raven and Taz, I always think that comments which suggest that they were “Ready-made main-eventers” are rubbish.
Obviously, dedicated wrestling fans knew who they were, had read about them and seen them in action. But the vast majority of WWF viewers would have had no idea who people like Taz were.
Taz came in at the Royal Rumble a few years back to a big crowd reaction because it was in New York, where a lot of ECW’s fanbase would have been from. Even at the shows after his impressive debut, he received little or no reaction.
In Taz’s case, he is simply too small to headline a WWF event because of the in-built “Big-Man” fixation. He would have had to have been booked to squash midcard and top-line guys to be taken seriously. He realised this and switched to colour commentary.