Does Santino Marella have main event potential?

[thedamndest]

Also, consider the following: Santino is only over right now because of his comedy. It's pretty risky to take that away and make him a serious character. Look at Kozlov. He's pretty much what Santino would have been if Santino had used his OVW gimmick. Now, obviously Santino wouldn't and couldn't use that exact gimmick now that he's been Santino, but that type of gimmick would be some indication of what Santino would go towards if you nixed his comedic shtick. He's years away from being as good as he would need to be to be over on ability alone.

[Afterlife]

Originally Posted by thedamndest Why is that moot? If you are small you don't get pushed as a main eventer. There are a few exceptions to this and all of those guys were "old school" guys. There is no reason to suppose the WWE will have a change of heart and become more accomodating to the shorter man.

I explained why it's moot. Big guys don't get pushed as main eventers just because they're big except freaks like Khali and Andre. Snitsky was big, Earthquake was big, Heidenreich was big; they never got that kind of push. Because there were other big guys, and ones with more talent. The bigger the talent, the better the chance at a push. So saying "there are more littel guys that went nowhere than got titles" is moot because there are also more big guys that went nowhere than got titles.

Originally Posted by thedamndest Also, consider the following: Santino is only over right now because of his comedy. It's pretty risky to take that away and make him a serious character. Look at Kozlov. He's pretty much what Santino would have been if Santino had used his OVW gimmick. Now, obviously Santino wouldn't and couldn't use that exact gimmick now that he's been Santino, but that type of gimmick would be some indication of what Santino would go towards if you nixed his comedic shtick. He's years away from being as good as he would need to be to be over on ability alone.

Why even take the comedy away? Edge and Christian were hilarious, and they were dicks. Successful dicks, at that. Same goes, more recently, for Miz and Morrison. You can make Santino Marella into a serious threat and still be comedic persona.