[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan A heel turn couldn't hurt. But really, heel or face it all comes down to WWE committing to pushing him long term which is something the company has been awful at doing for quite a long time now. I could see them turning him heel and pushing him for a couple months before the short attention span kicks in and he becomes a heel jobber to the stars and the cycle begins again.

Yep.

With some decent setup and proper build starting from a couple of years ago, we could have been looking at something like Kingston v. Ziggler for the WHC as a PPV headliner, and not bat an eye about it. Nobody would be talking about how they're not ready, or don't generate heat... because they would be. However, it's impossible to get there with the whole manic depressive, push-then-forget-about style.

People clamoring for him to cut his dreads to be taken seriously is asanine. Booker T didn't have to. Like a certain big man said, they have lives outside of the ring. I get the idea of freshening up a look, but dreads are an investment in time. It doesn't just grow that way, and it doesn't grow back in a month like a mullet could. Besides, even if he made a decision like that, it would warrant at least a "___ vs. Hair" match stip.

Also, the "spot monkey" argument falls flat, because Jeff Hardy. Jeff also did "the same shit every match", and also had that one high spot a year people would talk about akin to Kofi's annual Royal Rumble thing. Jeff was a goddamn train wreck who only got where he was because he jumped off of shit and girls hitting puberty liked to see him take his shirt off mid-match after watching a whole night of guys better built than him without shirts. His promo skill slowly lurched from "God awful" around his first ME push to "tolerable" around the time he feuded with Punk. He also did this in "not serious" ring attire of full street pants and muscle shirts. Kofi actually wears ring gear, so he already has two things up on him for you supposed "purists".


As far as becoming the next Game, though, that would take a bit of circumstance beyond better booking in the day to day for him specifically. Yes, he would have to show "edge" and "personality", but he already showed he could do that in his feud once upon a when with Orton. That happened all of a couple weeks, then he was back to random matches and no promos.

It would require things like being booked strong after "setbacks" such as the end of Air Boom (Sydal fucks up, so Kofi gets punished with lack of TV and ring time), and not getting depushed when they lack things for him to do- feuds that have to do with just feuding, which seems to be a dying art. Anymore, if there is not a title chase or someone with a hot, new gimmick, they just have guys just aimlessly having random matches.

I said before that Hunter was in his position because of everything he was given. I didn't neccessarily just mean all of the forced shoehorning of him into the opening, 3 backstage segments, and the main event of RAW and Smackdown for consecutive months on end... though that was quite a bit of it. For as overrated as I said he was (actually, I think I said he was "just average"), WWE sold it. They sold his badassery until it became fact, and to his credit, he took the ball and ran with it. If they had dropped him as often as they drop so many others mid-stride, this thread would have taken place years ago about The Game himself. It doesn't matter how much charisma, ring awareness, athleticisim, etc., etc., he may or may not have: he will never have the opportunity to be taken seriously if he's never put in a position to be taken seriously. And THAT is Kofi's biggest detriment.