Originally Posted by The CyNick

The Eugene character as its portrayed right now has a very short life span. I read reports from the RAW tapings last night that people were ALREADY turning on him. Thats scary, I figured they'd get a longer run out of him as a babyface, but I also predicted this would happen sooner or later. His gimmick is such that people are laughing AT him, not with him. The reason why guys like Hogan, Austin, Rocky and even Foley got over huge as babyfaces were that people to some extent wanted to be like them. People wanted to be a super hero like Hogan, they wanted to smack around their boss and talk trash like Austin, they wanted to look and sound as cool as The Rock and they wanted to be as fearless as Foley. Nobody wants to be like Eugene, they like to laugh at him, but nobody would go to school and try to act cool by imitating Eugene.

Eventually the fans will turn on him. Now I'm no fortune teller, I dont know exactly when it will happen, but it will happen. The challenge at that point will be to do an effective heel turn that will save Nick Dinsmore's career. Hopefully he'll be able to move on from the gimmick and not become another Hacksaw Duggan or a Bushwacker.

But to answer the question, no as a full time main eventer challenging for the World Title the Eugene character will never draw huge buys or do huge ratings on a consistant basis. Why? Plain and simple, its comedy and as Ive said a million times before comedy doesn't draw on top. Never has, never will.