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Zeus posted...

I never liked the Shield and wasn't a fan of Rollins until his singles career (although Ambrose on the mic has always been great). Granted, from what I understand of how the two have been used lately, this might be the best move.

I have very little interest in the Shield either, but I needed a fistbump image and it seemed to be topically appropriate.

But on a semi-related note, I have an irrational distaste for Ambrose mainly because he's spent the last few years stealing every facet of "my" gimmick.

Back in the 90s I basically came up with my self-insert create-a-wrestler character for all the WWF/WWE video games and called him "The Psycho" - he was more or less an odd hybrid of Mankind plus Tommy Dreamer with a touch of Raven. He even had his own real-life "merch" (when the Gus Van Sant Psycho remake with Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche came out in 1998, they sold t-shirts for the movie in Suncoast, which were basically all black with PSYCHO written on it in the "Crackhouse" font, and I bought a couple so I could "cosplay" as my character. I have a couple pics of me wearing it somewhere, and they used to be the central image on my old home page forever and a day ago).

But his character was basically that he was kind of insane, and got off on physical pain, so he'd constantly have hardcore matches which he'd deliberately lose, or smash his head into walls, and on at least one occasion he jumped off a roof for absolutely no reason (my one friend and I actually used to "script" weekly shows for our own fed for a while, so we just kept coming up with more and more ridiculous stuff for him to do). But he also had a faction called "The Asylum" because that's the totally obvious way to go with that sort of thing.

So when Ambrose started calling himself the Lunatic Fringe (which is grammatically incorrect, damn it), I was like "He's infringing on my gimmick!". And then when he did the Ambrose Asylum I was all like "I'm gonna sue!" He basically IS my character, if you shed some of the more Stone Cold-ish elements of his persona and just made him more of a masochist.

Ironically, my wrestler's tag-team partner (ie, the main CAW of my friend) could probably be described as a cross between Ric Flair (the stylin' and profilin') and Seth Rollins (the "Architect" concept, wherein the person is supposed to be a schemer and a tactician), so there's even more to compare there. Though in his case the Flair influence was probably way, way stronger (so much so that when that friend went to Disney World for the first time a few years ago, he deliberately took his wife on Space Mountain, solely so he could then shout about taking his old lady for a ride on Space Mountain, wooooo!).



I don't actually hate Ambrose for all of that - I generally treat it as more of a joke than anything. But it amuses me of just how much like my character he wound up being in spite of having absolutely no real means of ever knowing my character ever existed in the first place.


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