Santino needs to become a hilarious badass

[#1-norm-fan]

Thanks to the lack of creativity within WWE, Santino's character, while awesome, has hit a roadblock. It's at a standstill. The "goofy Santino" character is just going nowhere right now.

I feel like the next logical step is to throw his shoot fighting background into the mix while keeping with his other strong point of amazing comedy.

My idea is to have Santino and Kozlov get one last rematch for the tag titles. After a loss, Kozlov turns on Santino and just destroys him for a good 2 or 3 minutes in the ring. Santino starts coming out on crutches, selling that Kozlov may have ended his career (Still keeping the goofiness about him). Kozlov challenges Santino to a match which Santino without hesitation says no to. Completely pusses out of it. At this point, William Regal comes out and basically tells Santino to man up and stop being a pussy.

Santino heals and Regal finally convinces him to accept Kozlov's challenge telling him he will train him for the match. This is followed up by weeks of half-comedic, half serious vignettes of Regal training Santino (Which I think we can all agree would be GOLD.) Leading up to the match where Santino mixes comedic "Did I just do that!?" reactions with some great Regal-esque offense that we know he is capable of and in the end wins the match, even to his surprise.

This could lead to a Regal-Kozlov match where Kozlov wants revenge on the mentor, among other things. And Santino could easily now have no roof as to where he could go with his comedy character since he would also be bad-ass as fuck and realistically beat anyone in the company.

So this was my idea as a Santino fan and a Regal fan as well. But it's way more than what WWE would be willing to do and I want to slap someone for that.