Thread: So with the 2008 PPVs done....
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Old 12-22-2008, 09:54 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Sascha View Post
I never watch SD....what's Kendrick's gimmick supposed to be exactly?
It's one of those characters like Muhammad Hassan that has so much potential to be awesome, but is probably going to be dumbed down to simple terms kids can understand.

He's basically a smug stoner who quotes literary works, lines from movies, struts and dances around, and calls himself "THE Brian Kendrick." He showed up and started talking about his intelligence, and how it sets him apart from other guys. He went out and found the biggest, baddest dude he could get -- Ezekiel Jackson, to be his back-up, as power is about the only skill The Kendrick does not have in exuberance. Jackson has shrugged off steel chair shots from Triple H.

Some examples of how The Brian Kendrick and Ezekiel Jackson are pretty smooth customers:

* They cut a promo backstage with Kendrick referencing the book "War & Peace," talking about how he walks the fine line between genius and insanity, and how at Unforgiven he was going to "re-define war," and win the WWE Championship. Meanwhile, Ezekiel Jackson was reading Cat in the Hat in the background, and would answer The Brian Kendrick whenever he asked a rhetorical historical question.

* Bumping into Jimmy Wang Yang backstage, Kendrick quoted the speech Jules would say before he killed a muthafucka. Jimmy Wang Yang thought about it, and gave the bible passage (Ezekiel, whatever number), thinking it a reference to his match with Ezekiel Jackson that night. Then Jackson goes "Nah...Sam Jackson...Pulp Fiction."

That debut video posted by Volare is excellent, but since then, The Kendrick does far more dancing, and acts a lot less cool and a lot more like a pussy. He's meant to be the guy that you wanted to punch in high school, but couldn't because he was friends with the jocks. Which is all well and good, I guess, but it would be better if they emphasised how The Kendrick can definitely hold his own (which JR actually does pretty nicely).
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