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Joe the Samoan

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Hey Scott:

Maybe this can spark some Blog debate, should you chose to print it. I don't watch TNA anymore since they hired Russo and fucked everything up royally in early '07, but I'm still a pretty big Samoa Joe fan, even though he's getting sloppy now out of apathy. Now I know he'll probably never go to the WWE based on schedule and mistrust of character alone, and of course Vince doesn't want him since he doesn't look like everyone else, but let's say a miracle happens and he happens to go to the WWE. What do you think would likely happen to him? They already made their "answer" to him, Unga-bunga (though I guess I can't call him that anymore since he talks now apparently), so I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be saddled with some dumb Samoan Savage gimmick, but what do you think they'd do with him. Drop him right off in ECW as a monster heel? Call him Joe Johnson and never let him talk? Lord knows his natural ability would eventually get him over but do you think he'd even get that far, or would he be forced into punching and kicking until he quit.

Well, never say never because I didn’t think CM Punk would ever make it, but Vince has a fairly narrow view of what a samoan wrestler should be, as evidenced by Umaga being the original planned gimmick for Joe. Maybe he’d try to remake Rikishi or Yokozuna with him, but I just couldn’t see Vince buying someone who doesn’t look like Batista as a “tough guy” threat. Even Vader, the prototype monster heel, didn’t get a fair run in 96. Although I think Joe would be awesome as a Vader-style monster heel. But then I also think that they should turn Jack Swagger into Brock Lesnar 2.0, so maybe I’m totally out to lunch, I dunno.

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