For the very few people who know me very very well, they know that I never was interested in WCW product. I was a loyalist and a dedicated WWE Fan. Now, when Bret Hart went to WCW I honestly quit watching wrestling until the Attitude Era was in full swing. It was a good 3 months where I was a lost professional wrestling fan not knowing where to go. I honestly did not know Bret was in WCW or I might have followed him there. But as a six-year-old girl, I had limited sources of information. Even though all of my friends used to say WCW was where it was at, I refused to even look at WCW programming. I guess I forced myself to have limited information lol.
With that being said, even as a child, I did not understand the Fake Razor and Fake Diesel in the WWE. I was watching the Monday Night War on the WWE Network and I notice that Fake Razor and Fake Diesel. It reminded me of the poor decision WWE Creative had made. It was a low....low...low....low...low...low...low (you get my point) moment for Vince McMahon. No diss to Vince because he is one of my idols in American business, but this was a bad bad move for two key reasons.
1. These guys sucked! Sorry, but the fake Diesel and fake Razor were not at the caliber of Diesel and Razor Ramon. It was like really? There were so many options for these two superstars. Like Kane's gimmick. Oh wait, that is right Kane was fake Diesel. See Vince, originality does pay. The truth is Vince was upset because WCW capitalized over and over again on the talent that Vince had shaped and molded. Fake Diesel and Fake Razor was his attempt to maintain control of his product. While that is fine, these guys were no Diesel and Razor. Kane is a better Kane then Nash was Diesel. Kane, in my opinion, is better than Diesel as far as his accomplishments and mainstay on the sports entertainment screen. However, he was unfit to replicate Diesel. His original gimmick of Kane played out beautifully. However, he lacked the sexiness, charisma, and charm of Kevin Nash to step in his shoes as Diesel.
Sidenote: Kevin Nash is BIG SEXY and Kane...well ain't nothing cute about him.
2. KEVIN NASH AND SCOTT HALL WERE ON WCW! Now, it may be possible to swap out masked competitors (Sin Cara) or wrestlers that are no longer wrestling. But, when the original Diesel and Razor are at the competitor killing it in the NWO, replicating their characters makes WWE weird. Additionally, WWE Creative made it super weird because it made Diesel and Ramon tag partners, then had them turn on each other. Now, these two WERE NOT tag partners in WWE. Why would they be tag partners now? Oh, because the original gimmick holders are tag partners in WCW? You see how little sense this made? If the point was to demonstrate ownership of a gimmick, the WWE failed. Copying the original gimmick holder's current state in the competitor company and blending it with their old gimmicks just calls for complete disaster and demonstrated that Hall and Nash owned these gimmicks.
Fake Diesel's and Fake Razor's promos were bad and their feuds were horrible. The truth is Nash and Hall thrived in those characters. They owned those characters. Duh, that is why WCW bought them out. Thus, it made no sense to remind fans that two of their favorites had jumped ship.
Sidenote: Fake Razor's face was so fat...it was distracting. But he was actually slightly better than Fake Diesel. Probably because Razor was really a role for Hall and Diesel was blended with Nash's real life personality.
The truth is, WWE needed to move on and focus on building new talent. Which it eventually did. Unfortunately, not before their desperation was revealed with Fake Diesel and Fake Razor.
With that being said, even as a child, I did not understand the Fake Razor and Fake Diesel in the WWE. I was watching the Monday Night War on the WWE Network and I notice that Fake Razor and Fake Diesel. It reminded me of the poor decision WWE Creative had made. It was a low....low...low....low...low...low...low (you get my point) moment for Vince McMahon. No diss to Vince because he is one of my idols in American business, but this was a bad bad move for two key reasons.
1. These guys sucked! Sorry, but the fake Diesel and fake Razor were not at the caliber of Diesel and Razor Ramon. It was like really? There were so many options for these two superstars. Like Kane's gimmick. Oh wait, that is right Kane was fake Diesel. See Vince, originality does pay. The truth is Vince was upset because WCW capitalized over and over again on the talent that Vince had shaped and molded. Fake Diesel and Fake Razor was his attempt to maintain control of his product. While that is fine, these guys were no Diesel and Razor. Kane is a better Kane then Nash was Diesel. Kane, in my opinion, is better than Diesel as far as his accomplishments and mainstay on the sports entertainment screen. However, he was unfit to replicate Diesel. His original gimmick of Kane played out beautifully. However, he lacked the sexiness, charisma, and charm of Kevin Nash to step in his shoes as Diesel.
Sidenote: Kevin Nash is BIG SEXY and Kane...well ain't nothing cute about him.
2. KEVIN NASH AND SCOTT HALL WERE ON WCW! Now, it may be possible to swap out masked competitors (Sin Cara) or wrestlers that are no longer wrestling. But, when the original Diesel and Razor are at the competitor killing it in the NWO, replicating their characters makes WWE weird. Additionally, WWE Creative made it super weird because it made Diesel and Ramon tag partners, then had them turn on each other. Now, these two WERE NOT tag partners in WWE. Why would they be tag partners now? Oh, because the original gimmick holders are tag partners in WCW? You see how little sense this made? If the point was to demonstrate ownership of a gimmick, the WWE failed. Copying the original gimmick holder's current state in the competitor company and blending it with their old gimmicks just calls for complete disaster and demonstrated that Hall and Nash owned these gimmicks.
Fake Diesel's and Fake Razor's promos were bad and their feuds were horrible. The truth is Nash and Hall thrived in those characters. They owned those characters. Duh, that is why WCW bought them out. Thus, it made no sense to remind fans that two of their favorites had jumped ship.
Sidenote: Fake Razor's face was so fat...it was distracting. But he was actually slightly better than Fake Diesel. Probably because Razor was really a role for Hall and Diesel was blended with Nash's real life personality.
The truth is, WWE needed to move on and focus on building new talent. Which it eventually did. Unfortunately, not before their desperation was revealed with Fake Diesel and Fake Razor.
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