who cares i personally like the gimmick and everything big evil says is the point it is a blatant parody which they can do legally so thats basically it
who cares i personally like the gimmick and everything big evil says is the point it is a blatant parody which they can do legally so thats basically it
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i just think its a waste of a gimmick and time. It's silly to parody austin to that extent where you're just changing 1 word.
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Your right Lego, it is a parody of sorts. I'm not saying it is illegal, but I do think it is in bad taste. If Sharkboy had any respect for Steve Austin, he wouldn't try to make his career off of Austin's character. Besides, it is a waste of time for Sharkboy to steal another gimmick when he should be focusing on making his own better. Why turn to rip off Austin when he should be blaming himself for whatever problems he had with his character?
I'm not a huge fan of it really. He doesn't even really sound like Stone Cold that much when he's talking live. They seem to be able to tweak his voice a bit in editing but overall it's nowhere near as good as Jay Lethal's Macho Man gimmick, and that's what everyone is going to be comparing it to.
You're acting as if WWE has never stolen a gimmick themselves before. Do you EVER remember back in the late 90s when they decided to play off the Goldberg gimmick from WCW with cruiserweight Duane Gill, AKA Gillberg. HmmmmmmmmOriginally Posted by Big Evil
So what if a gimmick is "stolen" or closely related to other wrestlers, its all meant for the same aspect--entertainment of the fans. Since TNA knows they have a fan favorite in Shark Boy (similar to Eric Young), why not repackage him and give him a push? Seems like a good idea to me and I'm sure TNA knows what they are doing.
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NO! I'm not TNA mark cause I watch and give my opinions on WWE too, yeah WWE made wrestling industry but were you saying "WCW has no respect for what WWE has done for the wrestling industry" during the Monday Night Wars?
btw *Shark Boy
Anyways...don't WWE disrespect TNA sometimes plus TNA probably wants to go to war with them someday...I mean...who wouldn't and didn't Austin parody guys like Hogan in the old ECW days...after all...Hogan was a legend too?
If you look at The Professors Position column, it explains all. Btw, its a great gimmick, and I hope he gets a push out of it, because he's been jobbing the whole of his TNA carreer.
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While I agree that many wrestlers have copied a gimmick in the past, even blatant ones like Gillberg, I just don't think it's right in this day and age to try and push a guy by giving him the gimmick that wrestling fans all know of as 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin. I think that creative could go much farther by inventing a new aspect of the Sharkboy gimmick rather than try and reinvent him as 'Stone Cold' Sharkboy. Maybe it's just me, but I want to see some originality in the product, not the same old crap every time. Sharkboy is a original gimmick, but if you want to make him a badass, have him get fed up and start kicking ass! You don't have to copy Austin to get the effect you want.
am i missing something like someone said before with jay lethal's macho man thing isnt that a rip off as well? i never saw anyone complain about that.
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No, that is a tribute to the Macho Man, Randy Savage. Supposedly Lethal and Savage got in touch, and Savage thought it was a nice gesture. That's besides the point, it's one thing to have the approval of the man, and to take the character and make it your own. All Sharkboy is doing is taking Austin's personality and his antics and pasting that over his character. That's not very flattering, and it certainly doesn't show much effort on TNA's part to have a creative approach to pushing a guy on their roster.