Mark William Calaway - Bores me for the most part these days. I found him much more entertaining back when he rode motorcycles and talked about his yard. As a side note though, I did customer service at a credit card company a few years back, and this guy actually called me to dispute a charge. As if that wasn't cool enough, I noticed that he spent $170 at Chuck-E-Cheese. XD
I don't know; I've always liked his "Dead man" gimmick, but I don't watch enough SmackDown! to see him much.
And that is pretty awesome that you got to speak to him through your work!
Glen Thomas Jacobs - Lives very close to me. No longer obsessed with May 19, apparantly. Massively entertaining. I wish he'd be a little more funny, a little less MONSTER-ish, though. Big-time gamer, too.
Oh? I didn't know that!
I also didn't know he was ever obsessed with May 19th. What's the story behind that?
But I did know of him being a big-time gamer!
Paul Michael Levesque - Has somehow become one of three heirs apparant to the throne. I'm no HHHater, though. From here on out, he'll always be cheered by smarks as a badass face hero, and there's nothing wrong with that. Always great on the mic, although like most of the E's roster, his match routine is getting really stale.
His promos are usually pretty amusing, yeah, but I wouldn't go so far as to say "a badass face hero."
And I'm not going to argue at all about his match routine getting stale!
It's reached the point where I don't even watch the main events on RAW anymore!
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom - At 42 years old, the kid's still got it. Has quite possibly the best workrate of anyone in the company. Screw Lawrence Wendell Pfohl, Hickenbottom is the total package. Puts on great shows with anybody, even Chris Mordetsky.
And that takes some serious skill!
Mordetsky's matches were one of the things that drove me to quit watching for a few years!
Brian Gerard James - To be honest, I'm not extremely familier with this guy or Kip. I was watching Turner back when he was in New York, and I don't catch a whole lot of what goes on in the iMPACT! Zone today. Although I was there in Knoxville when they were doing the VKM thing at one of Vince's live events.
He's... decent on iMPACT!; the days when him and Sopp were "The New Age Outlaws" were truly the height of both of their careers; after the team broke up in the E, both of their careers went downhill. They're decent on iMPACT!, but they'll never reclaim the glory of their "Outlaws" days.
Monty "Kip" Sopp - See above.
For the most part see the above about B.G. James, but he also went into an extremely lame and drawn-out "fake-gay" gimmick with Charles Palumbo.
He returned to his "Mr. Ass" gimmick for a bit after the "Billy and Chuck" gimmick finally ended, but it was too late; he never achieve real success afterwards in the E, and even on iMPACT! he's just another mediocre mid-carder.
Sean Michael Waltman - Ahaha. Putting Waltman and Laurer so close together only brought back horrible, horrible memories. So Dwayne Johnson thinks The Marine is torture?
That was intentional, actually. :E
Joanie Marie Laurer - Her favorite color is green. And she likes to sing about it.
Well, I can't argue with that I guess...
Adam Joseph Copeland - Most entertaining heel in the buisiness today, bar none. Actually got people to hate him and cheer for the Doctor of Thuganomics a few years ago. Amazing promos, entertaining matches... this guy's one of my top 3 favorites right now.
I don't know; his big heel turn took place as I was quitting watching, so I've still not adjusted to his current character.
He does have good matches, yes.
And I know that he probably doesn't have much say in the writing of the angle, but he definitely needs to get rid of Vickie Guerrero; she needs
much mic training before they ever let her speak in public again! Seriously, she's so bad at delivering lines that it almost hurts!
William Jason Reso - Like I said, I don't see a whole lot of this Nashville-based troupe, but when I do catch it, he's always one of the most entertaining parts. They say he goes over his promos again and again before a show, and you can tell in his delivery and passion for what he's doing.
Can't argue with that.
Also he totally reeked of awesomeness when teamed with Copeland in the E. :E
Matthew Moore Hardy - His character lost all credibility for me when he basically just got the crap beat out of him by Copeland in 2005. Since then, he's become something of a joke among me and my friends, and I still feel like he needs another push up to the main-event level and a successful run with Copeland before I can take him too seriously again.
Yeah, he's definitely deserving of a main-event push right now.
With his brother rising to challenge for the WWE title, Matt definitely deserves more of a push than what they're giving him!
Jeffrey Nero Hardy - Massively over, a vet, extremely entertaining... and then he gets WELLNESS'D and his house burns down. He's back now though, to hopefully build back up his boss's trust and jump off more high things.
Can't argue with that.
Although I will say that I don't like his new music.
Robert Alexander Szatkowski - And SPEAKING OF high things! I'd look for him to pop back up on television within the next year or so. Me and my friend once did a massively entertaining piece involving him as Rob, and me as Dwayne Johnson, trying to get him to stop smokin' those funny cigarettes.
Bwaha, that's terrible!
Actually he's started his own "
RVDTV" thing, actually.
It's kind of amusing to see what he's like behind-the-scenes.
I didn't know he was
a Ghost Rider fan until I watched it on Youtube!
Also:
Part 1 of 3 of an interview with himMichael Francis Foley, Sr. - Reminds me of myself moreso than anyone else in the buisiness. Much, muuuuch better than Coach at commentating. Love him! RIGHT HERE, AT SONIC EATS RINGS! YEAAAAH!
Foley is good.
There's no two ways about it!
Gregory Shane Helms - I don't know HOW they convinced him to drop the Hurricane gimmick, considering all the money he made from merch sales. He's hilarious though, as seen in his segments with Johnson five years ago. Hasn't had much of a chance to showcase his stuff since then, and has been sidelined for a while now, maybe indefinitely. I'd hate to see that happen.
Seriously, man, it was one of the best gimmicks ever.
It's the only time that I've seen a superhero gimmick that I genuinely liked!
Paul Wight, Jr. - Made Floyd Mayweather watchable. Oodles of untapped charisma and humorous potential. Remember the Showster, or Positively Show? Alas, it looks like he's going to become the centerpiece of the former Philly brand again.
I don't remember Positively Show, but I do remember the Showster and Showkishi.
I'm really not liking his slower music, but I guess I'll get used to it.
Dwayne Douglas Johnson - For my money, the absolute best ever. He was so good, the industry couldn't contain him. Rumors of one more match abound, and as I'm going to the 25th annual Greatest Spectacle of All Time, I can only hope...
Yes!
He has some of the best mic skills ever!
Steven James Williams - What? From a financial and popularity standpoint, he's the biggest star ever. Yes, even bigger than Terry Gene Bollea. Everything he did got over, every catchphrase, every move, every storyline element... and it's just sad that he had to leave riiiight after his prime was over.
And that's the bottom line, because-a Stone Cold says it be so!
And I swear, I didn't have to look on a single one of those. XD
I didn't have to look for the first and last names, but the middle names (other than Helms and B.G. "Road Dogg" James) I didn't know offhand.
And I can still never spell Szatkowski's name right without looking it up.
That reminds me, I have a few more to question you about:
Anthony Carelli
Mark LoMonaco [...and not Lamonaco, as I thought it was spelled]
Devon Hughes
Matt Johnathon Hyson
Noreen Kristina Greenwald [...and not Nora Greenwood. I was close! ...ish!]
Christopher Keith Irvine
Randal Keith Orton
John Felix Anthony Cena
