A potential storyline idea.

[Ermaximus]

Could/Should the WWE turn this entire unfair pay and compensation ordeal into a legit angle? Would it work? I've got some ideas floating around in my head, but I want to get some other people involved in this. Looking at you Noid, Loopydate, Xero, and Lock Jaw.

Perhaps it could start with the lesser frustrated talents like: Yoshi Tatsu, Curt Hawkins, Tyler Reks, JTG, Drew McIntyre, and Hunico. From there these 6 are seen every week sitting ringside during a "jobber" vs. main eventer/mid-carder match and after the jobber losses, the above 6 men enter the ring and beat the shit out of the jobbber. Start with Ryder, Santino, R-Truth, and then maybe Tensai? But each week after said "jobber" has had the living shit beaten out of them, they show up with the others as part of the "coalition" or whatever you want to call them. Obviously at this point the group would have some strength in numbers and a few "bigger" names included, but don't stop there. Have a match between Christian and a returning Mark Henry take place, but have it end in a no contest after both guys get jumped by the other 10 men and eventually Christian ends up as the group's leader. He could start a strike asking other talents who feel like they are being screwed to stand up and be heard. Matches could take place on all WWE shows where an opponent can be shown in the ring about to face someone like Ryback, or Sheamus or whoever and rather than fight, they just exit the ring and walk away. You could esentially do this with Alex Riley, Derrick Bateman, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Kofi Kingston, Jack Swagger, and just about anyone else. Hell, you could even have divas start doing it. Alicia Fox, Natalya, Beth Phoenix, just to name a few.

I mean it's just an idea that could make a good story, but I'm fairly certain WWE would fuck it up regardless.

[Sixx]

No.

[Ermaximus]

Do you even know who half these guys are Sixx?

[Sixx]

No.

[CM Punk DONT GO]

I think they should start a stable with the Unhappy's and make them Run for president of the connecticut against the Linda mcmahon.

[ooTin]

Truly a piss poor idea.... no I dont have a better one. This is every other attempt at recreating the nWo. Not very unique for a man who seems to be well received here at TPWW.

[loopydate]

Challenge accepted. Will take a crack at this later.

[Curd]

It's far from the worst feasible plot, but I think Vinny Mac would take too many liberties with the talent and end up burying the lower- and mid-card talents more than helping, a la WCW and ECW in the invasion. In your proposed scenario, Christian would be the "RVD" of the Alliance who wins high-profile matches while the rest of the stable generally loses.

[Lock Jaw]

It could be done, but on a smaller scale, four-five members max. None of them really big names.

United by the one and only DAVID OTUNGA who ropes them in with grand promises of furthering their careers and equality for all, using his lawyer skills. However, Otunga is really just using them to further his own career and carry him to a US/IC title run.

[Curd]

In a far-fetched cross-promotional angle, the rebellious talents could be sent over to Ted Dibiase's evangelical wrestling promotion as the "Fallen Superstars." The face wrestlers on the Dibiase roster would tell the former Superstars they were wrong to rebel against authority and should "give to Caesar what is due." They feud until Kevin Sullivan shows up with a New Army of Darkness (Sullivan managing some indy wrestlers from another fed). The Fallen Superstars team with the faces to fight off Sullivan and cult, earning redemption in the process and perhaps going to TNA.

How do you like that, Ermaximus? Does that jump the shark?

[Curd]

It could be done, but on a smaller scale, four-five members max. None of them really big names.

United by the one and only DAVID OTUNGA who ropes them in with grand promises of furthering their careers and equality for all, using his lawyer skills. However, Otunga is really just using them to further his own career and carry him to a US/IC title run.

Just like a real-life lawyer! Take the fees in exchange for a settlement! :y:

[Lock Jaw]

Members:

David Otunga (Leader)
Jack Swagger (#2 Man who will be the first to turn against Otunga/snap and turn face)
JTG (Rechristened as "James Tiberius Grant" to be more "serious" :shifty:)
Drew McIntyre (YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!)
Ezekiel Jackson (The "muscle". Between him and Mason Ryan, I'd rather him)

[Nicky Fives]

A stable of jobbers would always work..... if WWE were smart (they usually aren't) they would use this to vault some of the no-name guys into believable talents with one "top guy" as there leader...... sort of like The Nexus, they should have it come from out of nowhere..... JTG, Hawkins, Ryder, Swagger, McIntyre, Big Zeke & Swagger seem like logical choices to me.....

[Brigstocke]

Yeah I could see Swagger and Swagger being Tag Champs.

[Emperor Smeat]

It could work but knowing the WWE, it would just end up as JOB Squad 2.0 in the long run and they'd be automatically heels. In reality the WWE itself has been the "heel" to its own wrestlers by penny pinching the bonuses and payments even though they are making a ton of money.

[Lock Jaw]

Orrrrr instead of David Otunga...

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Returns directly to the main roster and convinces a bunch of jobbers to join his weird "cult".

[loopydate]

The main idea can be summed up by this:

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This (except for two-time WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio and possibly Sandow) is a group of wrestlers that have never and likely will never be used to their full potential. Aside from a weekly comedy bit with Santino and one with Slater, when was the last time any of these guys was featured prominently on any of the five-plus hours of WWE television programming? Or, in some cases, at all?

We start with Johnny Curtis getting demolished by Ryback. Backstage, he's nursing his wounds, when he's clapped on the back by a man we've never seen before. Dean Ambrose introduces himself and asks Curtis why he agreed to face a man who routinely destroys two opponents at a time by himself. Why would he sign a contract for that match? Curtis says he never signed a contract. He showed up for Raw that night and saw his name on the card next to a question mark. He didn't know who he was facing until Ryback's music hit. "So, not only did you not agree to fight a human wrecking ball, you didn't even know who you were facing?"
Curtis shrugs. "Comes with the job."
"When was the last time you had a match on Raw before tonight?"
"I honestly don't remember."
"How long have you known you had a match tonight?"
"Since about 5:30."
"They're lucky you were here."
"Nah, everybody comes to every show."
"So, there's a whole locker room full of guys like you every week that show up hoping to get some air time, and your loyalty is rewarded by being fed to some kind of cyborg killing machine?"
"I don't think he's actually a--"
"Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. You and I have some things to talk about."

On SmackDown, Antonio Cesaro is preparing for his latest non-tite match against Santino when Ambrose and Curtis approach him. Cesaro shakes hands with Ambrose, who he's apparently known for some time. Just like with Curtis, Ambrose takes Cesaro off-camera to talk. That night, Cesaro is dominating Santino, but accidentally gets himself disqualified. He starts putting the boots to the US Champion, but Kofi Kingston and R-Truth come out to make the save. They're blindsided by Ambrose, Curtis, and Jinder Mahal. The four heels stand tall over the fallen babyfaces, and the crowd is killing them.

In the weeks that follow, they recruit Hunico, Camacho, Curt Hawkins, Tyler Reks, and Drew McIntyre, and make appeals to Justin Gabriel, Epico, and Primo, only to be denied (which nets them a beatdown of their own).

Finally on the Raw before Night of Champions, AJ has had enough, she calls Ambrose and his friends to the ring to explain themselves. Ambrose says that he's the new kid in town, but it doesn't take a genius to see that something is very wrong in WWE.

Ambrose: Fifteen years ago, this company re-invented itself. After the failure of the so-called 'New Generation,' a group that was headlined by two guys that you put in your Hall of Fame, it took a threat from the outside and a cadre of new stars to save this business. This led to the greatest heights this industry has ever seen, but it's also been its downfall. Those same stars disappear for years on end, then get a load of money dropped on them to come back for one match, then ride off into the sunset. How many times can Shawn Michaels 'return to Raw?' Or Triple H? Or Mick Foley? How much longer are we going to hold onto Attitude? Will D-Generation X still be telling us to 'suck it' when they're sixty? Or is it time for a real new generation to step up?

Mahal: What I said on Raw 1,000 was true. The collection of talent in WWE is remarkable. But on two weekly prime-time shows making up five hours, and countless other supplemental shows, there is somehow only enough opportunity for the same ten to twenty wrestlers to get air time? John Cena, Randy Orton, CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, the Big Show, they are all paid considerably more than we are. Why?

Reks: They get paid more because they get on TV more. We get paid less, because we don't get the air time. But we can't get air time because they keep giving the air time to the guys who they're giving all the money to!

Hawkins: Maybe once a year, there's an opportunity for someone to break through. One guy, out of fifty, gets a real serious shot. And maybe they succeed like CM Punk and cement themselves as "the guy." But maybe they don't make quite as much money as the office would like and now maybe instead of headlining pay-per-views and getting his face on the Party City cups, Jack Swagger only gets to be at WrestleMania if he is the corner man for an announcer!

McIntyre: Vince McMahon himself called me a future World Champion when I first came to WWE. But how many opportunities have I had since then? Teddy Long, the Guest Hosts, the Anonymous General Manager, Triple H, John Laurinaitis, and now Booker T and you, AJ... When was the last time I fought for a title? When was the last time I had a chance to make the kind of money that John Cena makes? Or Randy Orton makes? Or Rey Mysterio?

Curtis: I won NXT. The first winner was challenging for the WWE Title within a year. Season 3's winner is the assistant to the SmackDown General Manager. And what did I get for winning? Well, I was supposed to challenge for the Tag Team Titles with my pro. Eighteen months I've been waiting for that shot. Meanwhile, my "pro" is co-holder of the Tag Team Titles with someone else! So for all my trouble, I get six weeks of videos where I make a fool of myself pouring milk on my chest and crying, then I get to go back to NXT! Meanwhile, the guy who came in second gets to accompany the #1 contender to the World Title to the ring at last year's WrestleMania!

Ambrose: There's an entire generation of superstars that was ruined by the Attitude Era. The WWE brass likes to talk about taking advantage of the opportunities when they're given to you. Take the ball and run with it. Well, where's Hunico's damned ball? Or Camacho's? Where's Antonio Cesaro's ball? I didn't come here to make waves. I came here because I wanted to be the best, and that's an opportunity you only get here. But I'm not going to be Mark Henry, sitting patiently for fifteen years waiting for my chance. I'm not going to be Dean Malenko, toiling for decades and never getting it. And neither are any of these gentlemen. WWE is corrupt, it's being eaten from the inside by the cancer of its own success. And if it takes nine men like us to say we're no longer content to take a backseat to the nostalgia act of the week or the comedy segments that won't end, so be it.I love WWE, and so does Jinder Mahal, so do Hunico and Camacho, Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins, so do Antonio Cesaro, Johnny Curtis, and Drew McIntyre. This is not "You're with us or you're against us," but we are here to save this company from itself. We're only here to help.

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From there, they start to "negotiate" for themselves. They set the stipulations to their own matches. They never really call themselves a "union" or threaten to strike, but the intent is clear. The good of the many gives them strength. They can essentially arrange their own matches, and this leads to a couple of brief mid-card and tag title reigns. The group expands as it goes on (Heath Slater, David Otunga, Derrick Bateman, Michael McGillicutty, the Primetime Players, JTG), but becomes less and less of a formal stable. They don't wear matching shirts or anything, and maybe they don't even have a name for themselves. They don't run out and attack people before matches, unless its someone they're directly feuding with. They're not the nWo, monopolizing the ring for thirty-minute talking segments. It's just a collection of individuals who - when necessary - work as a unit for the advancement of each member.

Ambrose gets a huge rub for being the "organizer" of the group, and they eventually go to an on-air version of the Twitter/YouTube feud he had with Foley earlier this year, culminating in an Ambrose/Foley Mania match that solidifies Ambrose as a top guy. Maybe nobody from the group wins a World Title, but it increases everybody's exposure and maybe somebody impresses somebody high enough up the ladder to make some real money.

Anyway, that's the idea. I could seriously write a short novel about this whole situation (yes, yes, I know, I already did) because there really is a great opportunity out there that WWE's never really hit upon with having the "jobbers" trying to elevate themselves.

[Curd]

WWE should hire Loopy as a writer, but stubborn ol' Vinny Mac would dip his paws into the mix and ruin the execution. Thanks to Loopy for letting us forum members enjoy what McMahon will not allow.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I agree with loopydate. I'm always for angles that gets guys lower on the roster noticed more, and I think it makes total sense for a band of guys who don't feel like they can get it done on their own get ahead by working together. That's what initially made the Nexus storyline so intriguing.

I think loopy's selected representatives for the group is pretty rock solid, too. I'd maybe have Michael McGillicutty as a part of the group, too, teaming with Johnny Curtis. The two do currently team together occasionally, and I really like the pairing. They have an understated chemistry, but what I also like is that the current Tag Team Champions are both their former Pros from NXT.