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All time favorite TNM7 gimmicks?

suicidalbynaturePosted on 02/19/03 at 00:18:17

I'm always curious as to what others are doing in their TNM7 feds and if any of you are like me you'll usually do some whacky stuff. So my question to you all is what was your favorite running gimmick in any of your feds?

My all time favorite was when Stevie Richards handed out Stevie Kicks like Stone Cold used to dish out Stunners. For five and a half months Richards and his deadly Stevie Kick ran wild and is became the deadliest move in the fed. It all came to an end though when Sabu accidentally broke Stevie's neck in a Heavyweight Title match.
CarlzillaPosted on 02/19/03 at 00:54:56

I am using fantasy wrestlers so you probably wont recognize the names but I will tell you all anyway.

I have this wrestler "The Amazing" Howard Hughs, and he is hell bent on getting my feds TV title. Well he signed a match for the title, but it had a stipulation in it that if he lost, as long as the current champ held the title he would never get a title shot. he lost that much, and then the current champ lost the title and Hughs was given his choice of date and match type. Well he choose one week and in that week the Old title holder won the belt back. so there had to be a decision made by the fed pres if Hughs would get the title shot...A Brawl For All match was schedualed between the current champ and Hughs. If Hughs won he would get the title shot exactly as he requested it, if he lost he would be forced to job in the fed for 1 full year.

I know it's kinda lame but it amused me.
He got the title shot by the way...and I haven't had the title match yet.
91Posted on 02/19/03 at 16:40:30

I've had some REALLY bad ones in my time, but then my circuit has always been run purely for my amusement. Even if I stuck it on the net at any point, I'd run it for me, not for anyone else. Anyway, here's a selection.

Homoerotic Strike Force who claimed that they were indeed natural blondes.

Haiku reading Jeff Hardy. I took his real life poetry writings - which are TRULY awful, by the way - and turned it into him reading out some excrutiatingly bad haiku before each match, to the disgust of his opponents AND his brother (and the fans, though the Hardys were supposed to be faces). Before one match pitting the Hardys and Strike Force, it got so out of hand, there was a four-way haiku insult war in what was an awful segment, but one a friend of mine greatly appreciated anyway. These days, Matt Hardy is now the (idiot) commissioner and he has a stable of fellow doofus' called Team Matt (which I thought up BEFORE Team Angle hit the air, by the way). Jeff Hardy is in there but he's bullied and treated like dirt and he hates it, so in his spare time, he runs Team Jeff (him and jobber Paul Roma, who he bullies and pushes around).

Sarcastic Christian who would always cut really sarcastic interviews where he pretended to be terrified of his opponent before smacking Michael Cole around the head for believing him.

Impersinating D-Lo Brown & Perry Saturn. They had runs as four different teams - Grandmaster Perray & D-Lo 2 Hotto, Perry Gunn & D-Lo Jammes, Brown Knobbs & Perry Saggs and finally Perry Lawler & Bill DunD-Lo.

Jonathon Coachman - manager extraordinare. Well, not really. Someone on a forum compared his WWE persona to that of Carlton Banks from the Fresh Prince, so I took it to the extreme and made him the biggest drip this side of Jupiter. At first he ran an interview segment known as Coach's corner (complete with really bad jokes and the wrestlers trying to kick his ass - all for my amusement) before he managed Steve Blackman to..... the mid-card. He fired his personal cameraman (who he introduced in a real WWE segment some years back) and he consequently became insane and went around trying to kill Coach in various pre-taped segments (pre-taped segments in which Coach tried to get an audience with Shane McMahon and get Steve Blackman a title shot).

Man, my fed is so bush league. With the exception of Christian, by the way, the others have long since run their course.

The one GOOD gimmick I've got now is the one Jerry Lynn has. It's somewhere in between Jake Roberts circa 92, Mankind circa 96 and Sean O'Haire present. The guy is some kind of sick, freaky, creepy nut who goes around hurting people, garnering obsessions with certain people and making some really outlandish claims (the latest one claims that his role in the company is not to put himself over but to give someone the chance to make themselves a star while risking their very lives). His interviews are long, detailed and dare I say actually not bad. I've now given him the monicre of the DWF "cynosure". It's hella difficult to REALLY describe what I've done with him (this paragraph doesn't do it justice), and I stumbled across the character by total accident but it's worked big time.
suicidalbynaturePosted on 02/19/03 at 17:06:32

Haiku Reading Jeff Hardy is the single greatest gimmick ever. I'm just wondering how long it will be until the WWE runs out of ideas for the kid and makes him do stuff like that.

D-Lo 2 Hotto is an amazing, but would he do the Worm??
LillaThrillaPosted on 02/19/03 at 22:08:34

in my first ever TNM circuit, I had a group led by Paul E. Dangerously featuring Psycho Sid and some other crazy monster types called Dangerously Unstable.

In IHLW (which fall into the uber-lame category)...
-The Dudleyz: Ahmed Dudley and Stevie Ray Dudley.  Acting like Bubba & D-Von...
-Ricky Marvin as The Rick.  He'd come out and do all the Rock's catchphrases in Spanish. :P
-Zandig acting like Zangief and teaming with Victory Zangiev as The Russians
-The New Power Rangers: Ludxor (White), Venum Black, Battle Ranger, Cosmo*Soldier, and...Al Greene...
-Jim Neidhart reprising his Who gimmick and making all the obvious jokes as a result.  This lead to Goldberg threating "don't make me kick you in the head!"
-Super Mega making big comebacks in matches which were refered to as Super Ultra Mega Hulkups
-Tiger Ali Singh with an anti-USA gimmick.  But instead of the usual lame thing of hating America cause they're wealthy or powerful or have freedom, he cuts a bitter promo about how they have absolutely no respect for the rest of the world and are a bunch of ignorant arrogant assholes.  Then he proceeded to burn an American flag in the middle of the ring.  I wish WWF had the balls to do social commentary like that...

And from PWF...
-The Bash Brothers.  Mighty Ducks meets Public Enemy (the wrestlers, not the band)
-Jack Slater.  Masked "ex mafia hitman" who slowly developed into an incredibly sadistic and evilly brilliant bastard.  He played his opponents against one another and once brutalized an opponent culminating in putting him through all 3 annouce tables in sequence.  And the character and his background is no where near done.  Just wait till I reveal why he's masked (trust me, its good)...
-El Taco Fuerza.  Luchadore on an enternal quest to eat lots of Taco Bell and sometimes hand it out to the crowd.
King_of_MenPosted on 04/08/03 at 03:20:29

Not as much of a gimmick as a tag team...Stone Cold Crazy--Steve Austin and Cactus Jack.

The World Cup of Wrestling--I got World Cup fever last year and decided to incorporate it into TNM7. I set up the opening rounds as eight separate round robins with 4 competitors in each group. Each match was one fall with 20 minute time limits and countouts. As with the "other" World Cup, the top two wrestlers in each category went on to the final tournament of 16, in which the matches were best of 3 falls, no countout, no DQ.

The only hard part was that there were a couple of three-way-ties in the opening rounds [in the real World Cup it's decided by goal differential] so I had to do a couple of tiebreaker triangle matches where the loser of the fall was the one who didn't go on to the final 16.

I did this four times, twice for singles and twice for tag teams--the first time I had the final 16 arranged in random brackets, the second time I did it myself so you wouldn't see wrestlers I deemed heavy favorites face each other early on, also I didn't want wrestlers from the same qualifying group face each other till the later rounds. The first one still worked out well even done randomly--the final round were two wrestlers from the same group, Goldberg and Booker T--their qualifying match ended in a draw. The tournament final had Goldberg winning two falls to none. Goldberg rolled all the way, only losing one fall to Cactus Jack in the semi-finals. There was also a really good Bret Hart/Owen Hart second round match.

I won't go into long details about the other cups, except that RVD won the second singles cup and the Hardys and Sabu/RVD won the Tag Team Cups. The funny thing is that Booker T also made the final of the second singles cup, and lost 2 falls to 0 again. I ended up making it into an angle about how Booker T never could win the big matches--he was always in top contention for the world title but always lost big when he got the title shots. Much later, he finally won the IC title from Hayabusa [a four-star match] but lost it the next card!

As you can imagine, it took a LONG time to do all this, but I had a blast each time.  Maybe I should do it again soon.

JoshiPosted on 04/09/03 at 05:04:17

My favorite was probably Chris Benoit in the WWA. Benoit entered the WWA with Dean Malenko. Malenko ended up winning the Heavyweight Title. Malenko eventually turned on Benoit after some arguments, and it led to Benoit getting a match at the biggest PPV of the year. If this worked out like it usually does then Benoit would have won, but that's not the WWA way of running things. Malenko won the match after tons of interference.

There was a four way dance the next PPV which ended up with Malenko and Benoit again. Once again Malenko won. Led up to Benoit constantly throwing a fit about not being able to get his revenge on Malenko. Benoit's best friend was Jyushin Lyger at the time and Lyger was given the next title shot against Malenko. Benoit was pissed that Lyger took it and didn't give the shot to him instead. Things were starting to get heated when I stopped.

Other people's favorite was probably my version of Kurt Angle and Christian in a TNM-MP version of the WWF. It went up against a superior WCW ran by Tommy Brownell. Anyways, Angle and Christian are the only two guys that kept my federation from totally being dominated by Tommy. They somehow made everybody laugh. Especially their jokes about SEX (Edge's name in Tommy's WCW).