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Old 06-28-2013, 02:51 AM   #945
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I never liked Deuce N' Domino. Just never did. I wanted to bang Cherry for some odd reason, and I liked Domino. He would do little things in his matches to try and stand out away from the gimmick. Deuce was like he was an actual greaser, whereas Domino was like "I'm dressing as a greaser, but I'm actually a beast that is just doing this so I have a job." And I mean that in a good way.

My problem is a lot of gimmicks are that it makes no sense as to why that person is a good wrestler. That's what I really dug about Goldust -- he was this talented guy with a great lineage who dressed up like a freak to take your mind off that and fuck with you. When The Boogeyman initially debuted, I could have gone one of two ways on it:

1. OK, he's this big guy who is trained as a wrestler, was going to be a part of this TV show that didn't go ahead, and has now gone so deep into the character that he believes that he's actually this supernatural otherworldly being and actually can't feel pain and freaks the shit out of everyone.

2. He's an actual Boogeyman?

I can suspend disbelief for the first one, but the second one just becomes too cheesy for me. And that's where Fandango is at the moment with me. He's come in as this world class ballroom dancer, and that's fine. Is he actually a dancer, or is he just using the flamboyance to catch his opponents off-guard? He uses his agility and dexterity in his matches, which makes perfect sense. But the WWE could very easily reduce him to comedy gimmick where he's actually a dancer and would rather be dancing than wrestling. So far, all his dancing has been to knock people off their guards or to earn the ire of future opponents (like when he turned on Wade Barrett and threw the match with Jericho and Miz -- seemed stupid at the time, but all of a sudden he was in the Intercontinental Title picture).

One day, I'd like it to come out that Johnny Curtis (or whatever name they eventually decide to give him) was never actually a dancer. He was just a professional wrestler who had all of us and all his opponents fooled. He got opportunities, got a hot woman by his side and took the world by storm.
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