09-02-2015, 01:37 PM | #1 |
Cranky Kong
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Book a current feud that could feasibly make me care about The Big Show.
I'm guessing that it's pretty impossible.
I don't have anything against the guy, but I really don't think there's anything left that anyone would like to see from him. |
09-02-2015, 01:43 PM | #2 |
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You cant. No mystique left. Dude has layed down for everyone. He can't even give an up and comer a rub. Retirement angle maybe
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09-02-2015, 01:44 PM | #3 |
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I was just watching Judgment Day 2000 last night and felt that Big Show/Shane should rekindle their feud for a one-off at WrestleMania 32.
It would tie in to Big Show getting the "retire" chants and all, what those fartknockers forget to remember is that Shane and Big Show had one of the most underrated feuds of their time. That or everything was on fire. Shane could come out and pander to the negative fartlickers and offer to put Show down |
09-02-2015, 01:46 PM | #4 |
Cranky Kong
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I don't remember Shane and Big Show feuding at all, and I'm SURE I was watching at the time. What was it about?
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09-02-2015, 01:52 PM | #5 |
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After the WM2000 main event when Show was jobbed out first, Shane was his "McMahon" and he put down Show with insults until Big Show became sick of it and they had a match where Shane dropped an amp on Show and shattered his head with a cinderblock.
Plus other assorted crazy shit |
09-02-2015, 01:53 PM | #6 |
Cranky Kong
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That does sound kinda cool. Dunno if we could recreated it today.
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09-02-2015, 01:54 PM | #7 |
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Big Show reveals he is the worlds largest Fandango fan, starts wearing elaborate Fandango cosplay and goes around punching everyone in the mouth for mocking his fandom. Fandango and Big Show never meet on camera until WrestleMania, where they close the show, dancing in celebration of Fandango's WWE title victory.
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09-02-2015, 01:59 PM | #8 |
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I respect the hell out of Big Show. 20 years in the business, first-ballot HOFer for sure. But like ABT, I just can't get into anything he does. His character has altered between face and heel so many times that it's impossible to get invested in his character at all. And he's feuded with just about everybody he can.
Maybe he'll take the "please retire" chants to heart soon enough. I don't think too many people actively hate the Big Show...we're just bored of him beyond words. |
09-02-2015, 01:59 PM | #9 |
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Oh, Big Show is signed until 2018 apparently.
Fuck me... |
09-02-2015, 01:59 PM | #10 |
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A Diesel/HBK type thing where he becomes bodyguard of a cocky Dolph. A slow build to a turn and a one off PPV match to put him over. Thats about it
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09-02-2015, 02:00 PM | #11 |
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Gotta be a retirement angle. Just take what the fans want and make an angle out of it. Gets the fans involved and gives him a decent send off.
Giving Ryback the match would've made sense had they not continually given away the match for free. Other than Ryback, not sure who on the current roster would work as an opponent to retire him. Unless, of course they decide to do it as Survivor Series. Give the event something significant to look back on. |
09-02-2015, 02:00 PM | #12 |
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Big Show declares that it is his intent to win the WWE World Heavyweight Title before he retires, but to do that he is going to defeat EVERY superstar on the roster to prove that no one can beat him/retire him, but he'll retire and give into the fans if one person can beat him. Once a show he wrestles the next guy until the big PPV where it's Show vs. the Champ.
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09-02-2015, 02:03 PM | #13 |
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Even is he's signed long term, move him into the broadcast team. He's excellent on commentary. I remember doing a helluva job putting over Rollins after Survivor Series last year while doing guest commentary.
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09-02-2015, 02:06 PM | #14 |
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Story: Big show gets very sick and it is announced he has to retire from wrestling. About 4 months after the announcement WWE.com has a video interview with show and he has seemed to have lost 300 pounds due to the sickness, he can no longer walk as well. Outlook is not well, but some how a few weeks later big shows sickness has went away and he is now beginning to use DDP yoga to regain his strength.
Show says he has one more match left in him and promises to win the Andre the giant memorial battle royal for a 2nd time. He comes down to the final 2 but doesn't win, however the fans admire his courage as he waves good bye and retires. Last edited by Big Vic; 10-02-2016 at 11:53 AM. Reason: typo, (again) |
09-02-2015, 02:08 PM | #15 |
Cranky Kong
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I'm not really into any of this yet, but I appreciate the effort.
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09-02-2015, 02:08 PM | #16 |
Cranky Kong
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Also, how do you make him lose 300 lbs?
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09-02-2015, 02:08 PM | #17 |
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Being that it is a story line Vince McMahon would have to force big show on a diet of just water.
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09-02-2015, 02:10 PM | #18 |
Cranky Kong
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Give him a tapeworm or something.
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09-02-2015, 02:10 PM | #19 |
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Good idea, now we're using our noodles.
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09-02-2015, 02:12 PM | #20 |
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Vince: "Show whats up how's the wife? Look we got an idea for an angle, swallow this tape worm"
Show: ?? |
09-02-2015, 02:19 PM | #21 | |
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Fuckin chokeslams for everyone |
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09-02-2015, 02:20 PM | #22 |
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If this were the Attitude Era, they would have Big Show play the World's Largest Cancer Patient or something.
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09-02-2015, 02:20 PM | #23 |
MVP Mark
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Put him in a tag team with your favorite wrestler.
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09-02-2015, 02:21 PM | #24 |
President of Freedonia
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Hate how Ryback harmlessly kicked out of the Chokeslam like it was a basic Scoop Slam or some shit. One of my biggest wrestling pet peeves has always been when somebody's old finisher just becomes another move that somehow is no longer strong.
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09-02-2015, 02:23 PM | #25 |
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09-02-2015, 02:24 PM | #26 |
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I honestly wouldn't mind a ShowMiz reunion. They were more than tolerable, and they're both doing a bunch of nothing right now.
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09-02-2015, 02:26 PM | #27 |
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If WWE ran my storyline would you root for show in the battle royal?
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09-02-2015, 02:41 PM | #28 |
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If Jericho ever came back for another extended television run (doubtful but you never know) I'd be quite happy just bringing back Jerishow and just letting them be what they were in 2009. Loved that team.
They found a way to make the weekly Raw guest hosts tolerable. |
09-02-2015, 03:15 PM | #29 |
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Big Show continues to job to everyone and their mother. After losing a WWE Championship match to someone like Roman Reigns, Big Show comes out on Raw and retirees from active competition citing the losses, the lack of support from the fans, and a loss of passion for the sport. Big Show disappears for four months.
A recently repackaged Lana starts doing promos that she has managed Rusev and Dolph Ziggler, but she has found her newest client who is going to make a giant impact on the landscape of the WWE. Speculation runs rampant about who she is bringing in, with WWE themselves leaking rumors it will be various people from NXT and the indies. During an 8-man tag team match featuring the top of the main event lineup, including champion Reigns, a video plays on the titan Tron that a giant has awakened. Out comes Big Show, hair grown long, wearing his old Andre style gear. He goes on a rampage, taking out all 8 men in dominating fashion, including power bombs and choke slams. Gone is the stupid ko punch. He finishes by choke slamming Reigns through the ring and holding up the WWE championship. Lana joins his side. He is no longer the big show, but is referred to as the giant. Giant never speaks, but let's his actions and his manager speak for him. He wins the WWE title in dominating fashion and defeats all challengers. He seems to feel no pain. He shrugs off finishing moves and brutally assaults anyone who shows him disrespect. He is feared by all. Lana interrupts matches on Raw and wrestlers and referees literally run from the ring in fear of the giant. Things come to a head when Giant choke slams Stephanie McMahon through a table and then brutally destroys Triple H inside hell in a cell. The Giant's run lasts almost an entire year, leading up to Roman Reigns finally defeating him at Wrestle Mania in the main event after hitting six consecutive Spears. The Giant retirees the following night on Raw. That's all i've got. |
09-02-2015, 03:20 PM | #30 |
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I should note that the visual transformation is extremely important to pulling this off. His hair should be long and wild and his beard big like Daniel Bryans. He should look like a caveman awakened and have a maniacal stare in his eyes. And he must never speak.
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09-02-2015, 03:21 PM | #31 |
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He could still be effective in a tag team with a smaller guy who can work.
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09-02-2015, 03:22 PM | #32 |
Make the IWC Great Again
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Or he just works Mania and defends the ATGBR trophy. Doesn't lose for 3 to 5 years.
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09-02-2015, 03:25 PM | #33 | |
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But yea Show could still be a somewhat interesting tag-team guy maybe he can join my current fave thing ever The New DAY. Btwcan't we argue the same thing for Mark Henry and yet no one is calling for his retirement?(even though he looks to be winding down on his own) |
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09-02-2015, 03:42 PM | #34 |
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If Zeb ever came back you could put him with Swagger and have Zeb slap the shit out of him to wake the sleeping giant. They could be a good tag team and once that runs its course have him snap on Zeb after a slap and start a feud with Swagger. Its more to get swagger back in the spotlight than it is Big Show tough.
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09-02-2015, 04:05 PM | #36 |
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If I had to make up a storyline and book a feud for him and seeing as he's signed until 2018, this will be a long one.
And I don't just mean in terms of time. Anyway, have Big Show do what's he's doing, all the while, the fans keep harassing him to retire. This continues up until The Royal Rumble, when he loses his match against whoever and he cries for the millionth time on camera. The next night on Raw, he addresses the fans and lets them know that he knows that they've all been begging him to retire, but that he isn't going to do it and that he doesn't have to do what the fans want him to do. Big Show then goes on a massive losing streak, where he always gets more frustrated after every loss and the fans keep chanting to him to retire, but Big Show doesn't do it. Eventually, after a shitonne of losses, WrestleMania 32 arrives and Big Show yet again loses his match. Now, he has over 85,000 people in the AT&T Stadium chanting at him to retire. Big Show snaps and concedes. He announces there and then that he will retire, effective immediately. The next night on Raw, Big Show comes out and tells the fans that he has retired, but that he loves the business too much to just walk away from it and that he still wants to be involved in it, like JBL has done. Big Show then tries his hand at commentary but it doesn't work out. The following week, he tries out being an interviewer, but that doesn't work out either. Eventually, he tries out being a referee and it works out. For the next year and a half, Big Show is a referee. Everyone eventually gets use to having a giant referee kicking about and nobody thinks anything of it. During that period, Big Show gets similar abuse to what referees usually receive from wrestlers, but Big Show doesn't retaliate, because he's a WWE official and they don't hit superstars. They just point to their WWE badge when challenged. Then Hell in a Cell 2017 rolls around and Big Show (by this time, going by his real name of Paul Wight) messes up a count costing a heel their championship. The heel complains and ridicules Paul Wight and Wight gets reprimanded by Triple H and the decision is reversed by Triple H. Paul Wight continues to get more abuse from the heels as they see him as an easy target and a way to look big, as they can abuse a giant without any consequences from him. The heel from Hell in a Cell has a match on Raw and Paul Wight doesn't notice that his foot is on the rope as he's getting pinned and Wight counts to three and the heel loses. Right after the match, the heel shouts in Paul Wight's face and then slaps him and forces him to apologise. Wight then apologises. This abuse of Paul Wight from the heel keeps happening over the next month but it slowly gets more extreme. Eventually at Survivor Series 2017, Wight is banned from refereeing and is sent to NXT to retrain as a referee, as he is seen as being a liability. At the same PPV, the heel loses his championship. Some time has passed and while Paul Wight was away training, the heel becomes number one contender again for the WWE Championship at The Royal Rumble. Wight has passed his training and is back refereeing. Nobody thinks anything of it and the past isn't brought up on TV. Paul Wight just appears in the ring at the beginning of a match one night and nothing is said about it. The Royal Rumble comes along and Paul Wight is the referee for the WWE Championship match. The heel keeps gets close calls and he becomes more and more frustrated as the match progresses. Eventually, the heel loses it and goes off on Paul Wight. Shouting in his face, slapping him and eventually, he spits in Paul Wight's face. Paul Wight is about to lose his shit, all the while, the crowd are going mad, wanting him to KO the heel, but he doesn't. The champion then rolls up the heel and Paul Wight does a fast count and the champion wins, leaving the heel furious. The next night at the end of Raw, Triple H is furious and calls Paul Wight out to the ring. Triple H launches a tirade at Wight, eventually ending it with Paul Wight's firing, telling him that he's no longer a WWE referee. Paul Wight then punches Triple H in the face, knocking him out. Wight then picks up the microphone and says "But I am a WWE Superstar". Raw ends. The following week, Paul Wight is in the ring and announces that The Big Show is back and that he's going to be coming after everyone that's pissed him off during his time as a referee. So one by one, week after week, the heels get decimated. Eventually, it clicks to the heel from Hell in a Cell that constantly abused him, that Big Show will be coming after him soon. So he decides to keep watching his back and he becomes edgy and constantly terrified. But Big Show doesn't comes anywhere near him. Then, at Fastlane/Elimination Chamber (whatever), the heel is in the Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship. He's in his pod and he's the first to be called into the match, but he doesn't leave his pod. Instead, he locks himself inside and throws away the key. The match continues and eventually it's only the heel and the face champion in the match. The champion is standing in the ring, shouting at the heel to come out of his pod, but the heel refuses. Then the lights go out. The lights then come back on and the face has disappeared, but standing where he was, is a pissed off Big Show. The heel absolutely shits himself and tries to escape his pod but he can't, because he locked it and threw the key away. Big Show approaches the pod and punches a hole through it, grabs the heel, and pulls the heel through the glass. He then proceeds to absolutely obliterate the heel. So much so that the heel is completely KO'd and (maybe) covered in blood. After a good few minutes of that, the lights go out, then on and the champion is back in the ring with Big Show. The champion gets the pin and retains. The next night, Big Show addresses the fans and says that now all the wrongs have been made right, he can retire happy and announces his retirement, and that it'll be at WrestleMania. He asks Kane (who is a face) if he would like to face him in his retirement match, as they're both really good friends who have been through a lot together. Kane accepts. WrestleMania arrives and Big Show makes his way to the ring. While he's waiting for Kane, a steel cage (from a previous match) is lowered, only stopping short of the ring, but trapping Big Show inside. The titantron then shows Kane backstage being attended to by medics and it's insinuated that he was attacked backstage. Triple H's music hits and out he comes. He announces that Kane is in no condition to have a match tonight, but that he has found a suitable replacement, or two. The heel Big Show nearly killed at Fastlane/Elimination Chamber (whatever) emerges from the crowd, along with the other heels that Big Show attacked previously. They all run under the cage and into the ring and proceed to attack Big Show. Triple H wishes Big Show good luck in his last ever match and walks away. The match is now a 5 (or maybe more) on 1 steel cage match, which after a struggle, Big Show wins, by chokeslamming the heel he nearly killed at Fastlane/Elimination Chamber (whatever) off the top of the cage and on to the other heels, causing the ring to break, but not all the way to the floor. The next night on Raw, Big Show addresses the fans, says a speech and says thank you for everything and leaves. The Big Show officially retires. |
09-02-2015, 04:26 PM | #37 |
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I would legitimately be interested in Cool King's booking here.
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09-02-2015, 04:34 PM | #38 |
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Reigns superman punches Big Show repeatedly, knocking him so loopy he thinks he is Captain Insano. Show runs around for months being a crazy, ridiculous asshole
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09-02-2015, 05:17 PM | #39 |
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Book him in a gimmick where if he loses 3 matches in a row he is forced to retire.
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