Should Festus Be Repackaged?

[Mr. C]

My suggestion would be to turn Festus heel and make him a psychopath who can cut promos and speak whenever he wants. Put a mask on him and drop the name altogether.

[EDWARD]

i dont care wht they do, as long as they use him efficiently and dont future endeavor him. he is great as a performer

your idea is pretty good too

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I hate his look though.

[Londoner]

Yes, if they can change kofi like they have they can certainly do something good with festus now.

[HBPunk]

thanks edward

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

http://www.wrestlingwrapup.com/images/wwe-festus-image.jpg

Seriously, I'm not too picky about appearances but hit a fucking gym and stop pounding back the cheeseburgers. He doesn't need to look like a roid monkey, but he can at least look like he knows what a treadmill looks like.

[Nicky Fives]

see above

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

IMO CM Punk looks the most healthy in the WWE. He looks like a normal yet extremely athletic guy. Not like a roid monkey and doesn't have man boobs, he found the happy medium. Lance Storm is another example.

[Waylander]

You mean that boring wrestler with the stupid cartoony gimmick? Well that's a touch one.

[Cool King]

http://www.wrestlingwrapup.com/images/wwe-festus-image.jpg

JBL II.

[CWK]

It would be hard to repackage Festus in a different persona. He is still very young, like 24 or 25, but he would do very well as a heel.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

I would tell him to lose 70 pounds first.

[CWK]

I would tell him to lose 70 pounds first.

I would agree with that, along with getting a breast reduction.

[CWK]

JBL II.


LOL it does look like JBL's head was cut off and replaced with Festus

[XCaliber]

http://www.wrestlingwrapup.com/images/wwe-festus-image.jpg

Seriously, I'm not too picky about appearances but hit a fucking gym and stop pounding back the cheeseburgers. He doesn't need to look like a roid monkey, but he can at least look like he knows what a treadmill looks like.

Now that you mention I think it is JBL's bod the top rope on the near side looks black lol.

[Lock Jaw]

I miss JBL :'(

[Londoner]

I miss JBL :'(

I don't.

[Lock Jaw]

That's because you are an inhuman monster who eats babies.

[ddpBANG]

My suggestion would be to turn Festus heel and make him a psychopath who can cut promos and speak whenever he wants. Put a mask on him and drop the name altogether.
So, make him Kane again?

[Sixx]

How the fuck is he going bald at 25?

[The Jayman]

bad genes

[Ermaximus]

Why not move him to Smackdown and team him with Knox? Together they could be a pretty dominant tag team. Kind of like Kozlov and Zeke. Or better yet, put those 4 said guys in a stable and have Regal be their leader/mouthpiece. Could be pretty good if done right.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I hate his look though.

I agree, but not so much because of his size. I think it works for a brawler. It's more that he's going bald. I don't think this is a major problem, but it's more a con than a pro.

He is only 25, and for a guy his size, he's not nearly horrible in the ring. Some of his strikes look down-right brutal. He's also fantastic at playing characters. He got the mannerisms of Kane down for that role.

I wouldn't mind seeing him with with a "serial killer" type gimmick. Don't make him just another monster, as that doesn't really set him apart. Give him a hook, similar to the one Mike Knox has (where he seems really knowledgeable about the human body). I think Festus is talented enough to play a character with depth and sophistication (if the WWE can write one for him).

Also, his name needs to change. "Festus" just doesn't work as a serious contender's name. Looking on his Wikipedia page, during his early days teaming with Jesse in OVW, he went by the name "Justice Dalton." This could actually work for him -- especially if he's playing a character that doesn't seems a little morally off-centre.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

It's not his size that is the issue, it's his build. He's not built to carry all that excess goo he has on him. It's one thing to carry extra pounds and look big and mean, it's another thing to have gross jiggly rolls flabbing all up and down your body. He literally makes me want to vomit when I look at him. The least he can do is put on a shirt.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/2838/wj2ol4.jpg

Here's Vader, a fat fuck, but he looks like a tough cunt brawler. He's built like a boulder. He looks way tougher than jelly rolls up there.

I mean it wasn't pretty to see him all the time or whatever but at least he looked serious and he looked like a monster.

http://www.mmalinker.com/wiki/images/8/8d/Tank.jpg

Same can be said for Tank Abbott... no where near as successful as Vader... but at least he looked scary. He has muscle.... he's just a fat fuck.

Festus has not an ounce of muscle tone on him. It's gross. If you want people to buy guys, they don't need to look like body builders but they need to look like they have an athletic bone in their body.

And if they don't (see Bam Bam, One Man Gang, etc.) they cover that shit up.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Yokozuna being the notable acception, but really him being a big lard was his entire gimmick.

[Vastardikai]

Can Festus be repackaged?

It depends, is there another 3 Stooges joke they can exploit?

[Sovereigntywillpr]

Okay, Have Kane and HBK in a Hell in a cell Match, and Have a masked festus walk out about 30 minutes into the long match, he can ripe off (no pun intented) the cell dore and be revealed as Bane, The Undertaker and Kanes half brother.

better yet have it be DX VS Taker and Kane for Bane's first appearance.

[Sixx]

http://lostoutlaw.net/images/batman/bane.jpg

[Sixx]

Bande & UnderBaker

[Mr. Nerfect]

Okay, Have Kane and HBK in a Hell in a cell Match, and Have a masked festus walk out about 30 minutes into the long match, he can ripe off (no pun intented) the cell dore and be revealed as Bane, The Undertaker and Kanes half brother.

better yet have it be DX VS Taker and Kane for Bane's first appearance.

It's actually not a bad idea, considering how messed their stories are. Is it so hard to believe that Paul Bearer hid away another son who has been training for years to get revenge on both Kane and Undertaker?

I don't think I would call him "Bane," though.

[Skippord]

I think Jelly Roll would be a nice name

[Mr. Nerfect]

I think Jelly Roll would be a nice name

If they repackage Jesse as "Rick," I am all for this.

[Skippord]

wait they could reunite Jesse and Festus as Slam Master J and Slam Master Jelly Roll

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Festus definitely deserves something to do. When he got moved to Raw I thought for sure they at least had some semblance of plans for him, but he hasn't even been used in segments where the whole roster appears.</font>

[Lock Jaw]

It's actually not a bad idea, considering how messed their stories are. Is it so hard to believe that Paul Bearer hid away another son who has been training for years to get revenge on both Kane and Undertaker?

I don't think I would call him "Bane," though.

"Abel".

[Skippord]

"Jerry''

[Mr. Nerfect]

wait they could reunite Jesse and Festus as Slam Master J and Slam Master Jelly Roll

I wouldn't actually mind seeing Festus used by a repackaged "Jesse Gordy" as muscle to advance his career.

[Skippord]

I like Jesse a lot for whatever reason so I'd like to see him have some success

[Mr. C]

NEW FESTUS GIMMICK!!!! Can’t wait! Eager to see the new finisher. Glad he shaved his head. The hairline made him less intimidating.

Ladies and gentlemen, Luke Gallows!

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e148/Xixiathegreat/IMG_0275.jpg

He looks a lot more buffer. Great to see the man get another shot. He’s great. I want him to brutalize Slam Master J for the years of influence and would find it funny to see Slam Master try to ring the bell, only to get his “bell rung.”

[Phenomenal 1]

He's been repackaged....will debut this Friday on Smackdown....claims he was comatosed due to years of medicated drugs....now he's clean and sober and under the tutalege of CM Punk....my guess is will be his enforcer/bodyguard/lackey type of gimmick like Big Zeke was to TBK. He is going by the name of Luke Gallows now also for reference.

[Phenomenal 1]

and Val had a great deal of potential....yet another victim of the WWE's glass ceiling

[screech]

and Val had a great deal of potential....yet another victim of the WWE's glass ceiling

*cue Noid*

[XCaliber]

I like this repackage already wonder if this means there was any transactions between shows as a result of this since Festus was on RAW at least he was last time I checked.

[parkmania]

Wonder if the new name is a combination of two Marvel characters: Luke Cage and Jake Gallows. Gallows is the name of the Punisher in 2099.

[RatedGSuperstar]

As hokey as it sounded at first, I kind of like the "Gallows" name. Brings an executioner feel to the character; the guy who "finishes the job" for Punk if he's having problems with someone.

[DarKCentaur]

As hokey as it sounded at first, I kind of like the "Gallows" name. Brings an executioner feel to the character; the guy who "finishes the job" for Punk if he's having problems with someone.

But is he a PROBLEM SOLVER??

[Godfather4Life]

Abdullah the butcher is the fattest mother fucker i've seen in wrestling that made it anywhere.

[thedamndest]

Bam Neely 2.0

[Mr. C]

Saw Gallows…love it.