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Originally Posted by Noid
This one is better, but it's still go that stupid "Let me talk to ya..." at the start. He's very...bland. He's just there and he's trying soooo hard to get noticed.
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"Let me talk to ya..." and "... fact of life." isn't
so bad... IF he didn't do it exactly the same way ALL the goddamn time.
This on top of the 3 point thing EVERYTIME he says his name, "DUMMY, YEAH", "WHEN I SAY DUMMY... I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU, I WAS TALKING TO ME" shit makes him hard to listen to. And his delivery is, as I said before, way too similar to a Rock promo. It is like he's a dollar store Rocky.
Dollar Tree Eli Miavia.
Him being on some show with The Rock is news to me. But it makes sense, now. Maybe he got some "advice" or "coaching"... but it kinda stinks of knockoff. Kinda like anyone familiar with music around the mid 90's where Babyface could do no wrong, and you could tell who he had signed to his company, because any song written by him "sounded" like him in performance- most notably with Toni Braxton and the debut of Jon B. (who sounded so much like him, that nobody could originally tell which verse was Jon's and which verse was Babyface without seeing the video for "Someone To Love"). Point is, if he *did* get help, it was more a curse than a gift, because he comes off as more a TNA carbon copy than someone who got a few pointers to try help his career trajectory. It would do the same damage if he was on "Hogan Knows Best", and then showed up in TNA and was all "Brother" this and "Dude" that.
He is apparently comfortable on the stick, he just needs to dial back on that cringeworthy catchphrasy shit by about three notches and find more of his own "voice". You're a heel, shithead, stop pandering for the chants and reactions: just ignore it.
TL;DR - the guy has what it takes to be a huge star for TNA, BUT not when you try to force it like he does and oh-so obviously apes one of the biggest names in wrestling history to do it.