I think I see what's about to happen with Santino Marella... (Raw spoiler)
 

...and I think I really like it.

I see him continuing to help Maria win matches (without her ever asking for it), and she gets mad at him because it's not fair. In his mind, though, he's just doing it all out of love. Eventually, she'll try and part ways with him, and he'll become this obsessive stalker type (so a heel, naturally). I know it may be too early to tell, but IF this happens, it could be potentially entertaining.

Also, I enjoyed Santino on commentary for some reason.

I would be okay with that, at least its something for him to do. Can't say I liked his commentary work too much though.

I liked his commentary, though it was a bit repetitive, but amusing.

It would make my ears bleed to hear much more of it than I did, I must say.

"Heya a Maria looka soa abeautiful. Howa dare they hurta hera prettya ah hair. Dat's a spicay meatbawl!"

Yeah, I'm not saying I'd like to hear him at the booth every week, but something about his delivery was hilarious to me.

I especially liked when Lawler asked him if he had been teaching Maria moves, and he said something to the effect of 'well, we grapple, and we roll around together', and Lawler's like 'wrestling moves!'. Cheesy, but funny to me.

Also, the way he hugged Mickie James, maybe it could be more than just Maria. Maybe he could stalk ALL of the divas. He'd be awesome if he did that.

JAGF

Just Another Green Fuck.

They could all start to enjoy his company as a buddy or something, and then when he moves in for more they all start to back off of them. He should be a heel that doesn't realize he is and doesn't understand why people are booing him and why the divas don't like him. I like the stalking idea, but not like weirdo creepy stalker, instead he cant understand why they dont call him back so he calls them 50 times a day and leaves notes in their dressing rooms and follows them around backstage trying to give them flowers and stuff.

Wow that was a run-on sentence.

But at least it's something fresh. Besides, it's not his fault that the WWE decided to bring him up. He's just trying to make the best out of an opportunity. Would you at least be willing to give him a chance to be entertaining? He hasn't done anything horrid during his tenure whatsoever.

Yeah, that would be sweet.

It could give him a mean streak too. He tries to act nice to all the divas and to the crowd but then gets really angry at the crowd and divas, takes it out on his opposition with a viscious streak.

I wasn't paying attention during this match....

Maybe the commentary would have seemed worse if the match hadn't involved five pairs of lovely boobies. :drool:

Your loss.

On a side note I thought Melina was insanely hot last night. Don't know what it was.

No, because he's mediocre at best in the ring and he can't talk AT ALL. He's got nothing to bring to the WWE right now except filler. Is it WWE's fault? Yes. Doesn't mean I have to commend and like him him for "doing his best" when he's so terrible.

And "something fresh"? Since when is the "Lovy Dovey turn obviously coming" storyline NEW?

I was getting some.

My 4000th post was about tits. *sniff* My dad would be so proud!

If they actually ran with any of the ideas discussed in this thread, it would be new.

And he's really not "terrible", as you put it. I think his ring work is just fine, and I think he's got a really natural feel on the mic.

SWEET DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!1111

I can think of at least half a dozen worse IC champions.

Chyna, for one.

And Ahmed Johnson, Umaga, Albert, Marc Mero, Road Dogg, there's your half dozen without even really thinking about it.

Nah, Ahmed Johnson was a good IC champion due to the fact that he was MEGA over at the time.

The only ones you can LEGIT claim to be on par with Marella in the terms of stinkers are Albert, Bob Holly, and probably Road Dogg as well.

LOL, Umaga worse than Santino? Come on now, seriously...

I would put Umaga and Road Dogg ahead of Santino. Probably Ahmed too.

Marella at least made the IC title look like a prize. Umaga basically shoved it up his ass for several months, plus he was YET ANOTHER undefending IC champion at Wrestlemania.

Just because the writers are morons doesn't mean that Umaga is a shitty champion.

At least the IC Champion was in a high profile match at Wrestlemania, I think that trumps defending the title in a throw away match.

Not when the title is made to look less valuable than two old men's hair.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


...Albert.

:lol::lol::lol:

Yeah, word, same goes for the ECW Championship.

...Holly was IC champion? He's not listed in the history on WWE.com...

Maybe Holly killed somebody and then himself?

Yeah, I don't think you'll catch anyone calling Lashley a good ECW champion, and he and Umaga are pretty much equivalent in their runs. Whether you think Marella is better or worse than Umaga can be debated, but neither of them was really a good champion.

No, Benoit's NAME is still there, it's just not a link anymore...

I think some people are getting 'Umaga, the wrestler' confused with 'Umaga, the champion'. Regardless, his first reign wasn't too fantastic, but I think his current one might turn out better.

Either way, I thought giving Santino the Intercontinental championship was a creative debut at the very least, and soon after, they made it quite clear that he isn't on the same level of people who were already on Raw (besides Chris Masters, for some reason). No harm, no foul.

Ten years ago Marella's and Umaga's reigns would have been a real black mark on the IC title... now it's like finding a coffee stain on a bedsheet that's already full of holes. :nono:

As long as I'm already pissed off, I should mention that if the IC title isn't defended at WM24, I'm sending Vince some flaming poo.