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#1 Posted on 1.4.03 0809.38
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I was thinking last night watching Raw that Lance Storm is a textbook case of wasted potential. Aside from sucking badly in the mic, he seems to have all the tools needed to be over pretty well (Stu Hart training, good conditioning and speed). What would you do with Lance if you were a Raw writer?
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#2 Posted on 1.4.03 0816.06
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I wouldn't say he "sucks badly" on the mic. He's at least an average to better-than-average talker.
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#3 Posted on 1.4.03 0822.57
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He needs an Al-Snow like goof partner to drive him crazy. Christian could come back perhaps.
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#4 Posted on 1.4.03 0845.32
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Remember when Shamrock got over for dissecting his opponents body parts in about 3 or 4 submissions in the ring? Since he was a heel and Lance is one too, a gimmick like that coupled with a nickname like Dean Malenko had could help him.
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#5 Posted on 1.4.03 0847.09
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I would build a gimmick around his steroid-free physique. If they're bringing up Booker's rap sheet and even the steroid trial (without coming out and saying it), then why not play up what makes Storm different?

I mean, they won't, becuase they probably can't, but imagine the posssiblities. Elitist attitude, which Storm can certainly do, or even into comedy angles to help bury mistakes...

I would love to see an angle where Steiner, up for a drug test, has to buy Lance Storm's urine.

(/goofing off)

Why not just let him wrestle, let him talk about what a fantastic wrestler he is, and build up a serious submission threat to anyone unfortunate enough to get in the ring with him. If done right, he could make any hold you please into a viable submission.

Or just come up with a gimmick about his prominent "area". It's all my fiancee can look at when he's on camera.
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#6 Posted on 1.4.03 1300.42
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I really thought that thing they had awhile back with Storm and Hurricane wteaming was great. But I agree they need to actually give Lance something that'll make people take him seriously really instead of this cheap heat anti-American or pro-Canadian stuff.

Remember when Lance first came into WCW and he was always talking about his perfect 0% body fat physique? That was kinda cool. But team that with a ruthless attitude, maybe actually make him snap in a match, against Morely or someone else in the Bischoff administration. So Lance turns face, then cuts some promos about his frustrations. Then just have him start ripping sh*t up.

I mean it's similar to Benoit I guess, but really make him maniacal. Like that one guy said, do something similar with what they did with Shamrock and have him just pick people apart with submissions.

I personally just think it would be better for this to be done with them pushing Lance as a face...or at least a tweener. At least by doing that, they're furthering the movement of trying to get fans into the more submission or mat-based stuff with fans loving people like Storm and Benoit and having the utmost respect for someone like Angle.

...or maybe i'm just rambling. hah.

But I mean really, they already gave Lance Shamrock's old gear, why not give him a similar gimmick too
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#7 Posted on 1.4.03 1323.16
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Give him Bret Hart's old gimmick, of being a no-nonsense mat technician who thrives on putting his opponents through the ringer. He's already paired up with Regal, who can do much the same thing. Regal can be the mouthpiece for the pair and let them run wild stretching people!

I am a Lance Storm mark!
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#8 Posted on 1.4.03 1406.57
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I, too, am a Lance Mark. I also loved the idea of the Storm and Hurricane team. I just want Storm to go out there and kick some butt. The last time I feel he really killed someone in a match was when he beat Albert fot the IC title. I want him to beat someone big and tough, like Chief Morley or Bubba Dudley, and then I think he would be even more "overrrrrrrr"-------

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#9 Posted on 1.4.03 1413.40
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If it were me, I'd wait until Goldberg was running down to the ring next Monday and have Storm come out of nowhere and superkick him "straight to hell" and the beat him unconscious with a steel chair and then cut a promo about how he's worked his ass off for this (and every other major) company and he's fed up with seeing people like Goldberg come in and go straight to the top while more deserving people, like Storm, get overlooked.

They could then do a midcard revolution type deal where the upper-midcarders start putting on awesome matches to prove that they're better wrestlers than the so-called main eventers. Have Storm come out on top of his matches to the point where the main eventers are challenging him because they think he's making them look bad. You'd get several great matches out of an angle like this, as well as elevating at least one (and quite easily a few) new faces to the main event picture.
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#10 Posted on 1.4.03 1507.05
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"They could then do a midcard revolution type deal where the upper-midcarders start putting on awesome matches to prove that they're better wrestlers than the so-called main eventers."

You mean like they did in WCW when Kidman fought Terry Bollea and everything?
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#11 Posted on 1.4.03 1603.21
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Refresh my history, please IsaacYankem. I remember of those Hulk/Kid matches, but what was the outcome?

Storm taking out Goldberg would totally blow me away in terms of awesomeness, and yet if Goldberg doesn't want to job to The Rock, then he definitely won't be down for jobbing to The Storm.

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#12 Posted on 1.4.03 1603.31
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I'd like to see a trade w/ Smackdown!!...Lance could snap on Bischoff or Morley and beat the holy hell outta one or both then demand a trade to the BETTER brand. Steph then makes a deal w/ Bischoff for the "disgruntled" Storm. On Storms last RAW apearance he's beaten down by Morley, the Dudleys, and the returning William Regal then is dragged from the ring and thrown out of the building.I know a beatdown may seem like a start to a feud but it serves an even better purpose in that it gives Storm a huge sympathetic face turn, then he can appear on Smackdown as a pissed ex-Raw employee, in the back he comes face to face w/ Benoit who is pissed that his partner was traded away for Storm, a feud seems to be on the way until they are attacked by Team Angle, pitting them as new partners and probably the best technical tag team ever. Give em the straps, and let em war w/ Los Gurreros, Team Angle and if I had my wish a reunited Hardy Boys. I think Storm fits the more mat oriented style of Smackdown and Ryhno is a more hardcore, power moveset type wrestler, a feud w/ Kane or RVD would be awesome for the Man Beast.God I'm geting way off topic here.. but thats how I'd use Storm (and Ryhno,and Benoit, and Kane and... RVD).
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#13 Posted on 1.4.03 1844.45
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    Originally posted by socetew
    Storm taking out Goldberg would totally blow me away in terms of awesomeness, and yet if Goldberg doesn't want to job to The Rock, then he definitely won't be down for jobbing to The Storm.(edited by socetew on 1.4.03 1704)


Well, Lance could always take some pointers from his ailing tag team partner and shoot on Goldberg, but he's far to professional to ever do such a thing, which I suppose is a good thing.
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#14 Posted on 1.4.03 1911.35
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I always felt one thing WCW actually did right was Lance Storm. Every week just coming out, trash talking the crowd, finding a way to pick apart someone by hook or by crook (always ending with the Maple Leaf and a submission, too), gaining a belt and repeat, until he literally had a stack of belts to rub in the audience's faces

That RULED
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#15 Posted on 1.4.03 1926.37
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As a fellow Storm mark I will have to chime in and say that I don't think Storm's mic skills "suck badly" or are even slightly bad. Sure his character is that he's a plain and serious guy, but he plays the part to perfection. Not everybody can be a flashy character like the The Rock or Jericho.

I have to agree that he could be another Bret Hart incarnation, although didn't everyone used to say that about Benoit. It would be strange for him to play the part of a face but I think he could do the old school face that plays by the rules and has respect for the sport, opponents and the fans, especially since he really does.

Of course me and LMO 911 had another little more outrageous idea. Even though Lance has had his enormous elbow pad for a while I just noticed recently, other people I have talked to didn't really notice until I brought it up too, so I was thinking that nobody has really noticed it. Well we thought up that we would use this in the angle. You see Lance Storm's elbow will really be a symbiote like Venom in Spiderman, and week after week the elbow pad will seem to get larger and larger, Morley will be the first one to notice and ask Lance if his elbow pad is getting bigger and Lance will of course deny it. Well pretty soon Lance starts getting a little bit more out of control and starts saying "We" (talking about him and the symbiote) rather than "I". Bischoff gets concerned and confronts him and Lance says that "they" are going to eat his brain.

So.....I guess the Bret Hart idea looks a lot better now.
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#16 Posted on 2.4.03 1248.36
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Gosh, I'm getting misty here, I never dreamed that there were other Lance marks out there.
As for the Kidman/Hogan series, I don't remember the conclusion either, which probably tells you something...
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#17 Posted on 2.4.03 1259.08
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I suppose you could always put him back together with duct tape...

As long as I'm on the subject of Excalibur's Raw Satire, the conversation between Bubbah and DVon about heel turns this week ruled!

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#18 Posted on 2.4.03 1307.59
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    Originally posted by Quezzy
    You see Lance Storm's elbow will really be a symbiote like Venom in Spiderman, and week after week the elbow pad will seem to get larger and larger, Morley will be the first one to notice and ask Lance if his elbow pad is getting bigger and Lance will of course deny it. Well pretty soon Lance starts getting a little bit more out of control and starts saying "We" (talking about him and the symbiote) rather than "I".

Too bad Rock's already doing that gimmick with his new tattoo.
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#19 Posted on 2.4.03 1630.26
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    Originally posted by IsaacYankem
    Gosh, I'm getting misty here, I never dreamed that there were other Lance marks out there.
    As for the Kidman/Hogan series, I don't remember the conclusion either, which probably tells you something...



Wasn't he revealed as the hummer driver, or him and Bischoff atleast. I guess that wasn't the conclusion though but that was part of it.

I didn't think the whole Old vs Young angle was completely terrible I remember Vampiro and Jarrett and Douglas atleast getting some time out of it. Kidman was a bad choice to match against Hogan though.
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#20 Posted on 2.4.03 1645.12
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the PROBLEM with the young vs. old angle at the end of wcw was that the young guys were the heels, portrayed as greedy and unwilling to earn their spot, and the old guys were the faces. that feud basically said "we as the company wcw have no respect for our younger wrestlers."
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