Thread: Why am I becoming a David Otunga fan?
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Old 02-26-2012, 11:46 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by Anybody Thrilla View Post
It really wasn't a shot at you specifically, but I can see how you would take it that way. Sorry about that. I've encountered a lot of people on these boards over the years who can't stand guys simply based on their ring work, refusing to be entertained by anything else they do.

Can anyone else do Otunga's gimmick better than Otunga right now, though? I'd have to say no. Who else actually is a Harvard graduate with a psychology degree and a practicing lawyer who is married to Jennifer Hudson? You could put those tags on anyone, I suppose, but it wouldn't feel organic at all. He's got a lot to work with, and he's doing well with it, I feel.
I get you. Trust me, I am by no means a "workrate nazi". Don't get me wrong, I love seeing guys and girls that can go. However, I'm the same guy who goes so far as to refer to Gangrel as "The Starmaker", and see Jack Swagger as "Kurt Angle in his prime, only with a lobotomy". I agree that David's out of ring stuff is progressing, and he could be a monster heel manager or some other such character. I don't have so much of an issue with that in and of itself.

What I was getting at is that his success with the coffee and bowtie portions are gaining him a push in-ring. Someone else could be using that push. Was Clarence Mason a real lawyer? Or Harvey Whippleman? This is wrestling. They don't actually HAVE to have a degree, be a real lawyer, or have a name-droppable wife to be portrayed as a weasly legal counsultant.
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