Loss Posted April 6, 2012 Report Share Posted April 6, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Diesel out for interview showing off his newly won WWF Title. Camera angle to try get over how tall Diesel is. Diesel has words for Michaels and talks about the happenings of Survivor Series. Diesel wants to be a fighting champion like Bret Hart. He is being respectful towards Bret and and says Hart can challenge him anytime for the WWF title. Long live the new generation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 This is all about repositioning Diesel as a babyface. He's sugary sweet. He tells Bret he can have a match anytime he wants it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exposer Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 Diesel says a lot of nice things and the crowd likes it. This was amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooley Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 I love how his idea of a hip pop culture reference is Jackie Gleason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Thought this was pretty good promo by Diesel and sort of crazy that in the span of a week he went from a heel bodyguard character to the face champion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 Kind of a tepid pop for the newly crowned champ. Nash in Bo-like fashion misinterprets various New Yorkers' encouragements to DO THE JOB, BIG DADDY. We're immediately in Shiny Happy Diesel mode, and the only thing separating this from the Lex Express push is at least there was some build-up to the babyface turn. Other than that, the character reinvention is just as ineffective and incredibly, Vince has gone from waiting too long to pull the trigger to pulling it too early. Tease of Diesel vs. Bret, another monumentally dumb booking idea for your New #1 Babyface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstar Sleeze Posted December 6 Report Share Posted December 6 This must have been a shock to RAW viewers. The previous week Diesel was a heel fighting Razor Ramon and teasing dissension with Shawn Michaels and he was World Tag Team Champions with Shawn Michaels. Now he is a babyface, him and Shawn Michaels have dissolved, he is not World Tag Team Champion, but is World Champion by beating Bob Backlund, who not even the champion during last week's RAW at Madison Square Garden talk about shaking things up. WWF desperately needed to. 1994 had some really great matches for WWF, but it was a very stale year booking wise and they needed something. This interview does a great job laying out the short-term (Bob Backlund will be the challenger on the house show loop and Diesel can beat him like a drum to get over), the medium-term (Diesel is very respectful of Bret, he thinks it sucks how Bret lost the title and that he wants to emulate Bret and Bret can get a shot anytime he wants i.e. Royal Rumble) and long-term (Shawn Michaels is the WrestleMania match based of the Survivor Series turn and they will use the Royal Rumble to catapult Shawn into main event). It is a very effective interview in laying out who the main eventers are and the direction of the main event scene. Diesel is not Big Sexy yet. This is not the languid, smooth, cool Kevin Nash of NWO. He is trying way too hard out there and he has not found his voice yet. He is not comfortable in his skin yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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