Say what you like but I enjoyed old school WWF where the over the top characters made for entertaining TV, Guys like Yokozuna, The Mountie, Big Boss Man etc all were great. 

Do you think characters of such nature would work in today's era? 

I'd love an overweight sumo type wrestler like Yokozuna around just to see something a bit of different. 

What are your thoughts and what kind of character would you like to see?

May 29, 2018 13:40:26 GMT doinktheclown said:

Do you think characters of such nature would work in today's era? 

Only on an ironic level.

I probably enjoyed those kinds of characters more than anybody, and bringing back a Mountie/IRS/Shango-type character today would finally give me one thing in modern wrestling to seek out (I was into Sandow a few years ago, for example), but that sort of thing just isn't what today's wrestling fanbase wants to see.

I don't think The Mountie would work in Canada. Back in the 90s, I think the RCMP filed an injunction saying that you can't use that character/name in Canada. So Jacques Rougeau had to wrestle as himself whenever they went to Canada.

I've wanted a Yokozuna type character since he left the company, kinda got excited at the greatest royal Rumble when that sumo guy came out until I read the reason he was actually there.

No. Outside of the rare exception like Bray Wyatt, no one buys any "character" backstories. "This guy was a mountie and now he's a wrestler!" Uh, no. He was an indy wrestler who then came to the WWE.