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Haas was a guy who both got done dirty and went beyond his ceiling. His best shot without Benjamin was that team with Rico who was in a similar spot, but they didn't click and Rico was shockingly bad.
 
That pissed me off. It isn't a hard gimmick to understand and Rico sucked but might've made something of it, but they were so especially inept then.
 
On paper, Rico as the ‘00s Adrian Street seems like it’d be a great idea but maybe not make it such an obvious Adrian Street homage. What percentage of people watching Smackdown in ‘04 even knew who Adrian Street was? 5%?
 
BruiserBrody said:
I don't recall Rico being bad off hand. IIRC He was put over Flair on a random Raw and that kicked off some sort of angle of Flair reinvigorating his career, but I don't recall the exact details of all that.
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It was the angle that led to Evolution, Brod. Triple H chewed out Ric Flair after he jobbed to Rico and talked about how pathetic he had become. This pissed Flair off so much he turned heel by helping Triple H beat RVD at Unforgiven ‘02.
 
Rico wasn't good. His OVW stuff is fun but nothing super special, and I think he was great managing Billy and Chuck with the stylist gimmick. It seemed like when the Street knockoff gimmick started up, he aged significantly (I know he was already older) and looked in rough shape, and he and Jackie Gayda did not click whatsoever. More than anything it was WWE seeing the gimmick as more just a gay gimmick than as a flamboyant badass like Street was. Needed to be Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman on the outside with Wolverine on the inside, man.
 
alfdogg said:
It was!
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They didn't present it that way, which is bullshit. All I remember is Ivory being dumped on for being a bitch and JR all dated calling her Lilith Sternin (as though that's an insult).
 
Someone needs to book a rematch with Knoxville.
 
X-Factor could've worked so much better if it didn't happen.
 
Owen and Storm might be the only same Dungeon graduates.
 
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