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Ok with all the success Santino has had with the fans and some good match's lately do you see him having a world title run after WM? I would love to see in happen

lol

Believe it or not, I wanted him to win the 10 man battle royal on the last on Monday Night Raw.

dude is rediculously over..i could honestly see him winning money in the bank...and if that happens, they better wait until a chicago-boston-new york esque crowd to have him cash in, would make the moment an unforgettable one.

Unforgettable cause Boston, New york or Chicago would riot.

Could see him maybe with a short 1 or 2 week title reign just to shock people, not any more than that.

I don't even see it like that. I see something like a Dusty Finish, where it looks like he won but the decision gets reversed. Or something like Jericho's first title win over HHH. Santino will always be the comic underdog, plain and simple.

If you give Santino a World title, you might as well give him a pair of water skis and a shark to jump over. Absolutely nowhere to go from there.

i feel like we just saw this storyline with Zack Ryder and the US Title.

Do WWE make Cobras? Kinda thought those sleeve things would make great merchandise but I never see anyone on screen wearing them.

Would definitely sell.

Did the WWE ever make 'official' sockos?

I made a socko

Not any sooner. Although I would love to see some decent character development for Santino in the near future.

Maybe the wrestlers can start calling on Santino's bullshit. The fact that he is Canadian and although he is of Italian ancestry, he is not from Italy. Santino's ends up being more obsessed with his gimmick and turns psychotic. Santino becomes heel and starts destroying wrestlers in the squared circle, making little kids cry in the process.

"Santino snaps"

If Rey Mysterio can be a WHC then Santino can too.

8 weeks consistent good booking could turn Santino (or anyone) into a legit threat.

Do not want. Never found Santino funny. Maybe if they gave him a "serious" gimmick, but then again, I dont think it can get over at this point.

You know the value the belts are gone when people start talking about giving one to Santino.

Mark Henry.

Anything can happen.

Not really when they're booking him well and he's over, a week long title reign woudn't do any harm, or just one show, as a shock sort of thing, then he can just go back to what he was doing or turn heel and go crazy. Or whatever!

lol when i was in 7th grade i made a socko as well, and i wore it during my math test, pretending socko was giving me the answers. a week later my math teachers quote was "out of all the people in this class, the damn guy with the sock on his arm got the highest grade" lol

i dont get why people are saying this would be a bad thing..the underdogs win alot in other sporting avenues. and when it happens, its great tv, great for the sport, great for the fans etc. i mean look at last year, we had 3 people, well tecnically four i guess, win the world title that we would not have thought would ever win it, in christian, mark henry, and bryan, the 4th being ziggler. its all about how its booked.

Horrid example.

Mark Henry is a walking fucking tank with an "I'm gonna rape you" expression permanently etched on his face.

It's a wonder he wasn't world champion years ago.

I have to agree with Captain of Fun here. From a smark standpoint Henry would never or should never have been champ, but from a kayfab standpoint he's a perfect candidate.

On one hand, its not like either belt has any strong prestige these days and the MitB already proved to be a great way to give a test or a chance for lower tier wrestlers (ex. Swagger, Bryan).

On the other hand, he's going to need more than just the past couple of weeks worth of build to really grow a strong enough fanbase that will buy his merchandise since that is the key to becoming a top star. If he were to turn heel then at least a year's worth of build would be needed considering how well it worked out for the Miz and as of now for Ziggler.

Upon first glance i thought this was a G.I. Joe appreciation thread.

Also, Santino for WHC...if Swagger and Khali can be WHC, I don't see why Santino can't!

the value of the belts was gone when they started getting defended every goddamn week. they're like every other match.

santino getting close to the title was exciting and fun because it came out of nowhere. i want him to win. but the longer this goes, the less "out of nowhere" it feels and the less i care.


yeah, because a serious champion would be fresh. we seriously don't have enough of those. seriously.

I think it would actually make for a refreshing moment. You put him against a monster heel no one gives him a chance against, and then some other babyface feuding with that heel gives Santino an opening and The Cobra Commander takes it. It'd be interesting to see how people take it. Could imagine a bizarre one-week spike in ratings just for the "WTF?" factor.

I could almost see a title match taken seriously(ish) being his moment, kind of like Jeff Hardy vs. Undertaker ladder match on Raw a few years back.

Have him come so damn close and win a little admiration from the hardass heel and see how you go. Or have him win it and drop it in one night, its happened to much bigger stars than him recently.

I think it would actually be good bragging for his character to have been the champ, or been oh so close that he can go around living on it like coming second in the Rumble.

I would totally buy him as the United States Champion at this point. I love Swagger, but I've got no clue what he is doing with the title.

He has the look for sure, noone would argue against him being believable as champ. But he has a limited moveset because of his size and also because of his size few people can legitimately put a move on the guy without it looking fake as hell.

Its like wrapping yourself round a tree and saying you are choking it out. At the end of the day you know, and the tree knows, you aint hurting it one bit.

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LOL Grisham: "SANTINO MAReerhhhhhhhhhhh..........!!!"

I doubt it will happen, but I wouldn't be against it....The guy is mega-over and gets a bigger reaction than most of the roster every night.....I don;t buy him cleanly defeating a champion just yet, but if a champ were to get injured, I could buy him winning a 20-Man Battle Royal for the vacant strap a la Kurt Angle & Khali.....

Now he is, yes. But he was portrayed as such a complete joke for the first 98% of his WWE career that if I'd told you 18 months ago that "Kool-Aid Man" Mark Henry would be not only a former World Champion, but the most credible heel in WWE in 2011, you'd have laughed in my face.

All I'm saying is, if creative gets behind a guy hard enough and that guy does the work to get himself over, ANYBODY can be a believable champion.

You did NOT just compare Kurt Angle to Santino! No, you, did, NOT!

Seriously, the following people have a higher chance of being champion in that situation than Santino. Hell, let's make it the following 19 people for the 20 man battle royal.
Zack Ryder
Jack Swagger
Kane
Vince McMachon
Cary Grant
Hornswoggle
Captain Morgan
The Big O
El Generico
THE Fired Kenrick
Dolph Ziggler
Mick Foley
Spike Dudley
R-Truth
Jennifer Hudson's Boyfriend
Mark Henry & May Young's Hand Love Child (as it grew up to be the SmackDown fist)
Crossrine
Who ever does Cranky Vince on twitter
Rey Mysterio (before he's cleared to come back from his knee injury)

The Cobra

http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.co...c/cobra/01.jpg

Perhaps I'm reaching here, but I'm pretty sure there's a connection. Saying Santino could win the same way as Ku-


You know what, fuck it. I'm not going to state my position in this thread. I'm no longer going to even entertain the idea of Santino having anything more than the a tag, IC, or US title. Someone already said it's pretty much a sad state of affairs when we talk about Santino as a major world Champion. I'm not going to dredge that title through this muck.

He didn't compare Santino Marella to Kurt Angle, actually, FourFifty. He just said that he could buy him winning the title in the same way.

But Marella apparently reminded people of Kurt Angle when he was playing a bad-ass Russian submission master in OVW years back, though. Just saying.