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Old 05-06-2012, 12:16 AM   #46
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Originally Posted by Cool King View Post

I'm just not too keen on people associating him with Goldberg, just because he's a dominant bald man.
Because he's a dominant bald man who looks intimidating and powers through jobbers with such simililarity that Smackdown is clumsily dubbing out the GOLDBERG chants. He does have a similar build and look and now gimmick... close enough to warrant the chants.


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The same can be said with people comparing Mason Ryan to Batista. Just because he has a physique that's similar to Batista's and he wears trunks. (For the record, I still think he looks absolutely nothing like Batista)

It just seems like these days, nobody can be original. The fans always need to associate some sort of "similarity" to a current wrestler with one from the past.

To be fair, he looks LESS like Bats now with hair, but on his debut, even in street clothes... actually, ESPECIALLY in street clothes, his look and build was close enough to fool a lot of people on first glance (which was also aided by the fact there was rampant speculation he was about to return at that time).

It's not that we're particularly bashing Skip by saying "Goldberg did it first!!" Hell, this ride is quite enjoyable, but still the similarities are definitely present.

It would be like if they gave Darren Young a gimmick where he wears a combination lock and chain around his neck and wears jorts in his matches, and more importantly added a spot to his moveset where he makes a superman comeback with 5 moves of doom at the end.

Also, remember all the flack Goldberg got initally for basically being thought of as WCW's answer to Stone Cold... a bad-ass bald guy with a goatee and plain black ring attire.
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