Looking back at Fake Razor and Fake Diesel...

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Without dissecting the whole storyline with them being JR's "revenge" to Vince and the WWE for treating him like shit, it's easy to say they were never meant to be anything more than gimmick characters that were intended to fade away quickly.

I get the feeling though at some point there was a plan to push the both of them to the level that Hall and Nash were at and continue the gimmicks without the original guys. As much as it would have bombed horribly and never worked, something tells me that was the plan at one point. Fake Diesel made it pretty deep in the '97 Rumble. And they had some tag matches against Owen and The Bulldog and Furnas and Lafon where they were obviously made to look pretty strong as opposed to just throw-away gimmicks.

Again, it would have never worked but I think that's what they were going for and it would have been bizarre if it had worked and they had gotten over with the gimmicks. Your thoughts....