Out Of Time, So Say 'hellooooooooo'.
 

"We noted last week here on the website that WWE SmackDown star Drew McIntyre will be getting a new “arrogant playboy” gimmick. At a weekend WWE SmackDown live event in Honduras, Drew started the new gimmick and was acting sexual and flirting with male fans in the crowd. Before the match, he was seen blowing kisses at some of the males."

Your wife messes with the powers that be, you end up losing your wife, your push and now seemingly, your characters sexuality.

:o

Poor Drew, had the world at his feet. Now his career's on his knees.

Triple H once wrestled in Pig Shit. Think about that for a moment.

One of the dumbest creative ideas wwe has had in a long time. Gay gimmicks just don't get over anymore. It's been done to death. And no one will do it better then Golddust. Rico,Orlando Jordan and more have failed miserably. Nothing about his badass ring music says "Gay" so they will lose it,then it will bomb and hello TNA. I guess cause he has a pony tail they're calling him gay. Stupid.

Why do gay men have to blow kisses to males in the audience? Can't he be a closeted gay who comes out much later?

You could have him tag with someone, and slowly the two of them become great friends (do vignettes of them hanging out). Drew develops feelings for the guy, and at first, gets frustrated because he doesn't know what's happening. He realizes eventually (perhaps on a double date his tag partner and him go to, where he just can't get it on), and is at crossroads. Eventually, he tells his partner, the other guy freaks out, and Drew snaps.

Or, have him turn in to a submission machine.

Well the thing is...gay people are accepted in most areas and its not as big of a deal as it used to be,except maybe in the south were everything is decades behind the rest of us. People in New York or LA don't give a shit about this. These gimmicks are for shock value and ususally laughs. But after it's done for a few matches no one cares either way. WWE drops the ball on talented wrestlers more then TNA does sometimes.

Totally get that. To think that in the "realism" era or whatever they call it, a stereotypical pink gay is the route they choose to take.

See ya Drew

almost all "shock value" gimmicks are garbage. boogeyman ate worms. dreamer ate everything. mideon was naked. all of those gimmicks burnt out pretty fast. goldust is the only exception i can think of at the moment.

it depends on how he rolls with this. if he can make it interesting, cool. the "arrogant playboy" thing means he will probably be flirty and irritating. it doesn't mean he will walk around wearing "i like cock" t-shirts.

it almost sounds like he will have jericho's wwf debut gimmick. last i heard, jericho was still doing ok.

Rico was pretty amazing.

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Gay gimmicks are hilarious.

I want to remember to quote this any time the whole "OMGZ HE IS BEEING BURRIED" shit comes up.

Oh, and is CM Punk still in the doghouse?

Mark Henry had sex with a 80 year old woman who gave birth to a hand.

Sounds like a shitty gimmick but until it debuts on TV theres no point worrying about it,could have just been a rib seeing as it was a house show, could also be the greatest gimmick since Funkasaurus.

Generally gay gimmicks don't seem to really go anywhere... but then again, nobody thought much about a white rapper gimmick either.

However, with that said, I pray to God this isn't the direction they're taking with Drew Mac.

Natalya farts, and now Drew is gay....... what's next? Orton in a man-baby gimmick where he....... oh dear lord........

BABY MADE A BOOM BOOM. *Viper Trance*

Oh, lighten up people. It's not like Drew was on his way to stardom as the guy jobbing to The Great Khali in a minute. I'm glad they're giving him something not so generic as "Drew McIntyre, guy with a common name in common wrestling tights who wrestles a common WWE style and cuts common heel promos". If this is what he ends up bringing to TV, it would be awesome.

P.S. "Straight dude" gimmicks have kinda been done to death.

Thought this was gonna be about him starting some sort of Bizarro Gimmick. Which I would have liked to see.

Hold on, let's not jump the gun here. Hear me out for a second...

McIntyre has had all of the chances in the world to prove that he belongs on the SmackDOWN! roster. All Teddy Long has to do at this point is say the word, and he'll be fired. As a last act of desparation, Drew PRETENDS to be gay. Why? So that his "firing" would be viewed as discrimination against his orientation. He could even go so far as to hire Otunga to be his lawyer and ensure that he keeps a job.

Book it!

Or don't.

But that's about the best that could come out of this.

I like that idea. Have Drew constantly be put in situations where he has to prove he's gay while Teddy is around. A Jack Tripper gimmick, if you wheel.

maybe Drew will become the male Aksana

(see also Orlando Jordan in TNA)

LOL, this is obviously going to lead to a huge push for Drew. Wait and see.

It's about testing you, kids.

It'll just be a funny anecdote to tell during his HOF induction speech:shifty:

A year or so ago, someone on this board was suggesting that Drew should have a gay gimmick. Apparently it finally happened.

Yea, he's still in the dog house for out popping DX at survivor series.

Wrestling fans on the internet think way too much into the dirt sheets. For all we know this was a one off deal, or maybe he was having fun at a house show. The possibilities are endless, not limited to what we read on the internet.

We think the wrestling world was once an iron curtain and all we saw is what they wanted us to see, and now it's a glass house. That's only half right. It used to be an iron curtain. Now that we've gotten a glimmer of what's inside we "know everything". We think because Ryan Clark reports it, it becomes the gospel truth. Listen, I'm sure any one of us could find the right people, and troll the IWC as a fake reporter claiming that Santino is going to be a pervert when he talks about his "cobra", WWE is going to hire Mongo to help recruit football players who want to be wrestlers, and Kane is going to be filming a remake of the 1934 classic "Bright Eyes" as he's been spotted backstage singing "The Good Ship Lollipop".

Being that Drew is one of the best, if not the best, looking guys on the roster, I think this sounds like it will be entertaining. Now, don't get me wrong, this is probably the end of Drew's career, but at least it should be entertaining to see.

GLAAD will love this one.

:shifty:

No idea why GLAAD WOULDN'T love this one.

Well, given WWE's partnership with GLAAD on the whole Be A Star thing, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried making Drew WWE's first gay face character.

Pretty sure they have all been faces. Except for Billy and Chuck, who I can't remember if they were always face or not.

They were initially disingenuous faces and were only tongue-in-cheek gay until the whole wedding fiasco.

GLAAD actually had people consulting with WWE during the Billy and Chuck storyline and helped WWE promote the storyline and get it mainstream attention.

I think they ended up getting upset that they turned out to not be gay or something but still... they were on board.

Drew doing a reverse Val Venus gimmick would be rather funny for a couple weeks. "Hello gentlemen."

Hey it worked for "Dashing" Cody Rhodes and look where he is now just sayin.

Rhodes didn't flirt with men in the audience though... He was more of a metro-sexual gimmick then a full on gay one.

Ok, so whos calling it? How long before Drew is teaming with Lenny Lane?

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I LOVE THIS IDEA

Then have him petition for title shots because he isnt getting them BECAUSE HE IS GAY

Let him win a few matches, screw some people over, BAM over heel.

He kissed guys and basically dry-humped them in the ring...

Don't remember Cody Rhodes doing that.

We're on the same page here! This could lead to many things not used before, if, and that's a monstrously huge IF, WWE doesn't go into another spontaneous swing of impatience that has killed several well working ideas and developed very crappy ones.

lol. For some reason I thought he was talking about Goldust.

Drew deserves 10x better..... the fact that Ezekiel Jackson, The Great Khali & David Otunga have more TV time than him is an outrage.....

You should be happy about the prospect of him getting a gimmick then.

Huh, I didn't know that. Thanks.

Honestly, the only thing that I clearly remember out of that storyline was the crowd cheering when they confessed they weren't gay.

Probably won't end up working out in the long run for Drew but its not the worst gimmick or stuff the WWE has done in recent times.

At this point, there isn't that much left for Drew considering he went from being a "chosen one" to being on a loosing streak to becoming a glorified jobber to pleading for a job and loosing out to a guy who wears a snake sock on his hand.

Did Rick Martel have the same gimmick besides the part about liking men in the audience?

I dunno, Drew is kinda a pretty boy, this might actually work out for him better than ugly fuckers tryin to pull it off. Is it me or does he look like a giant version of Legolas?

Looks more like a giant version of Brian Kendrick.

He looks like a FAGGOT. :rofl:

I'm a fan of Drew McIntyre, and I personally feel that his current character only needs a current tweak. The only reason I would support this is if Drew McIntyre is pretending to be gay so that a) Teddy Long can't fire him and b) because chicks dig gay dudes, he gets to see Kelly Kelly naked and stuff like that.

Personally, I'd go with Drew serving on Team Laurinaitis at WrestleMania, betraying the heels and giving Teddy Long control of both RAW and SmackDown!. It goes right back to the very start of McIntyre's "Chosen One" gimmick, where Teddy and Drew were constantly at odds (even having a match at one point). McIntyre then gets a bit of a mid-card face push, a mid-card title reign and maybe even wins Money in the Bank. Easy.

I hate Drew Mcintyre, he's uncharismatic and is average in the ring.

but him pretending to be gay to see chicks naked/get preferential treatment is such a good idea. it's so good it could turn him face.

not every gimmick is a step forward..... I'd rather see him as "The Scottish guy that talks funny" than any other gimmick..... There's no reason why Sheamus, Barrett & McIntyre could dominate WWE in a few years time.....

:p

They should just give Drew a Desmond Hume gimmick.

I'd almost rather see Drew get on Teddy's team, and end up winning it for Teddy.

Damnit 450, now you have me wanting to see Kane sing "Good Ship Lollipop."

The only reason I disliked Drew was because he was getting pushed ahead of my favourites, and he needs a real finisher, not a crappy DDT.

I'm all for giving him another chance if they make him fresh.

I could be wrong here, but I think it was Rico who was really upset about it the most...made for interesting tag team matches while they lasted though.

His finisher is the male version of the "French Kiss" Let it stay with that...

"Brotha, we have to go back and find Tiffany! We have to stop her from finding those risque photos of me."

Starring Heath Slater as crazy Claire, Yoshi Tatsu as Jin and Sun, and introducing Howard Finkel as John Locke.

Thats racial profiling and i expect better from you:nono:

Was he drunk or deep frying something though?

Yeah he's one of us then.

I can't imagine the amount of humour there CSL. I honestly can't.

Dunno.

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this got suggested and nobody thought of kanyon? shame on you all

Wouldn't be the first....you must obviously be forgetting Rico w/ Jackie Gayda as his manager, he was a gay character and he was face. And it went over for quite a while with the fans i must say.

All this thread has accomplished is making me miss David Hart Smith and ....possibly question my sexuality. Thanks guys..

can we send Perry Saturn and Moppy to your house to say "You're Welcome"?

I bet the report is wrong and he's not even gay.

but bi

I always thought that David Hart-Smith was in the closet, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if I read a post on tpww years from now reporting that he's come out.

With regard to Mcintyre, they should give him a psychotic quasi-gay rapist gimmick like Heidenriech, only without the poetry.
Then he could either 'snap' during a match and go into crazy gay rapist mode, or prey upon helpless wrestlers in other matches after they've been knocked out.
With that as his gimmick he could keep his current theme as well.

"Out of time, so say goodbye
What is yours, now is mine..."

My reaction to Drew possibly getting more TV time, but with this gimmick.
 

are you Kif?

Nah, I see Hasney as more of a Zap Branigan.

I'm going to have to go with Zap, purely for my Shatber-esque karaoke appearances.

Also, I do find the most erotic part of a woman to be the boobies.

But who's your Kip?

Kip James

Elix Kipper

God damn it, that made me miss David Hart Smith. He was doing a shtick on Superstars where he was trying to do anything to get himself over. I remember one week (I think it may have been that one, since Scott Stanford calls him "Tex") he came out with a cowboy hat on randomly. :lol:

I seriously don't know why the WWE don't re-sign him and put him back with Tyson Kidd since they're giving tag team wrestling a go again.

Also, Scott Stanford is an amazing announcer.

I dunno -- it seems like they're doing their best to keep Long and McIntyre at odds for the moment. They could have built to McIntyre working his way into Team Teddy, but I'm thinking it's too late for that now.

Also, I'm going to change my vote for the heel that turns on Team Ace to side with Teddy Long. I think Christian would be the most awesome face turn now. Captain Charisma is such a pro at playing either role, but I just can't think of too many places for his slimy heel to go. Bring on the slimy face. Face Christian vs. Heel McIntyre would also make a great feud.

It's hard to believe that WWE gets a rep for being tasteless.

That was BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

But that part is kind of the important part. They were onboard during a good faith arrangement with WWE. They weren't onboard with the "no homo" swerve....